WRITING BLOG MAY be regarded as leisure work for most people at first but the fact that often happens then is an active blog author takes more than just leisure. Although may require time and special attention, write a blog is not work in vain. At least you’ll get a lot of things if you have written quite a lot of reader attention. A blog can create interaction and feedback, generate information, knowledge, or entertainment for readers, so do not be surprised if your writing-awaited, and your blog site is a place of honor in your bookmarks list your loyal visitors. If you have been interested publish something on your blog then the next question is from where and how to create a blog? If that’s your question, then this article will provide the answer.
Blog Origin
The term blog comes from two words, the web log. So a blog can be interpreted as notes, journals, diaries, or whatever you want to write, which is published on a website. Blogs in general form a chronological series of articles with the latest writings are at the top. This is understandable because the top is easy to access visitors, and is easy to recognize visitors if there is a new article updated. Modern blog known at this time is the development of online diary that started from the year 1994. As the name suggests, online diary is a diary or journal published through the Internet. In online diaries, people write down their activities and experiences from day to day, can also be a commentary, poetry, or other thought online Since character, then the online diary of course intended for others to read. Readers are also able to contribute in it by writing a response to the author online diary. Along with the development of Internet and technology, online diaries began to develop by combining multimedia elements, ie text, videos, and pictures. On the other hand, corporate or personal website then began to bloom, often display a menu News (or What’s New) on the main page that contains the latest news is compiled based on the latest date. Combined elements of a website in general, and online diary which later gave birth to this web blog or blog. Therefore, this blog is not only displaying the content, but also enriched with other features as befits a website. Feature-fi tour include a link to your blog / website, also there is a weblog search engine that allows you to browse the topics that relate to each other according to their interests. Blogging became known as bloggers, and a common (and almost mandatory) for the bloggers to form a friendship in cyberspace, both with each other website links or involved in a community blog. In 2000 the top blogs is growing rapidly with the emergence of popular blogs, among others:
1. AndrewSullivan.com
Andrew Sullivan is a speaker, commentator, political columnist who has analysis and a distinctive style. This makes blog Andrew Sullivan blogs as one of the most widely read on the Internet. Andrew Sullivan called blogs under the name The Daily Dish, began in late 2000, and quickly became a political blog that is very popular with the heat of political news, and especially the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 Word Trade Center knocked out. The fact also noted that political blogs are the hottest category of blogs and have a lot of readers, AndrewSullivan. com is just one example of the many political blogs are popular. However, it does not mean other blog category can not collect a faithful reader in a fantastic amount.
2. Scary Duck
Scary Duck http://scaryduck.blogspot.com addressed on, not glued to a category of discussion such as politics, sports, entertainment, or anything else, but covers the whole Scary Duck. Style of writing is light but with a broad perspective, coupled with a fun image to make Scary Duck is crowned the best blogs on a blog competition in England in 2002. Scary Duck is one of the blogs that you can make a good reference to start your journey as a blogger!
3. Hardware Blog
You want a special review of the hardware on your blog? No problem, Hardware Blog www.hwblog.com http:// address is an example blog that reviews hardware paraphernalia. Hardware is one of the topics that have never been discussed. Supported writing with an interesting and certainly a good knowledge of the hardware itself, this type blog so readers could get the fans in a relatively fast tempo.
Company Blog
To gather the community and provide extensive information, a company or institution can also actively create a blog. That is, the business world was also started view the blog as a tool that can support the company’s progress. For example you can see on the site http://www.computerworld. com / blogs which is a blog from Computer World, a leading technology media company. Computer World divide the category of blogs to facilitate klasifi cation, such as the Security category which discusses security issues, the category that discusses Operating System operating system, and much more. What about in Indonesia? Surely not miss, for example, has a blog on Indosiar http://blog.indosiar. com, while Tempo Interactive has a blog at http://blog tempointeraktif.com. Seeing that the business-oriented companies also began nge-blog, perhaps raises the question whether she could make money through blogs? Because it can be thought of by you, are tired-tired of writing, the time can not be the money? The answer is you can get extra income from blogs. Additional income can be advertising, donations, or even sell the products in your blog. The goal of course to earn a living, so you do not need to be ashamed to put it down if it wants to get additional revenue. However, it is mainly back to the blog content itself, if you can maintain the proportion and quality so your blog’s look well maintained and attractive to visitors (who must have entered the blog not for advertising). Nuances of intimacy to be one feature of blogs, although still prioritize content you also expect additional income. Believe me if you are able to display the writing interesting and productive, then automatically you will be more widely known and know people, which in turn will create opportunities better.
Creating Blog
The first thing to start a blog is what your goal. What do you want to write and publish? Let’s say you’re a fan and football analysts who intend to write review of your favorite games. Then to think about development, whether you want to make your blog special summon football? Or can grow large, and football is just one of the categories contained in your blog? This kind of thing you need to consider very carefully before making your blog domain name, which must reflect the content of blogs next step is to determine the domain and hosting for your blog. You can create your own blog from scratch, starting from buying and renting domain hosting, web design and database, to coding, to publish the web works as a webmaster. Surely not all bloggers should have a background and skill webmaster. Easier way is to use web services blog / self-hosted blog (which is generally free), where you can create a sub-domain, and use the blog template provided all facilities needed by the bloggers would have provided for you to facilitate uploaded content and manage layout. The drawback is the feature that you can use is limited to the features provided by these websites. One example of self-hosted blog that you can use is WordPress, which uses MySQL database backend and is written in PHP, addressed to the wordpress. com. Step-by-step registration and use of WordPress is very easy to understand, the choice of available themes is also quite varied, equipped with features such as multilingual, stats, spam protection, content management, and so on. Popular websites that provide other similar services include Blogger (formerly named BlogSpot) with the address blogger.com, WordLog (wordlog.com), even the website Friendster (friendster.com) also have added the blog facility for its members. To blog more spesifi k, there are several categories based on the media blogs, including:
1. Vlog
Stands for Video Log, which uses the video medium as a main content. Included in this category is YouTube (youtube.com).
2. Photolog
As the name implies, uses the media Photolog images as the main content, course suitable for you who have a hobby or a job on the field of photography, or just simply want to display the collection of drawings and photographs. If you are in this category, the website provides its services include Flickr is addressed at flickr.com, Fotolog at photolog.com, and much more.
3. Tumbleblog
Tumbleblog a variety of media such as images, links, videos, and so on. One website that provides this service is tumblr.com. Tumbleblog short format without including a comment that is commonly found in ordinary blog. Very suitable if you want to publish something quickly and to the point, for example, just to share words of inspiration that can be motivating yourself.
Not only on the PC
Thanks to the booming technology, blogs are also experiencing migration device from your PC or notebook to other devices such as PDAs and mobile phones, this type blog called moblog, which is a combination of the words mobile and blog. No less a regular blog, moblog also began to provide support for multimedia such as pictures and video. Moblog grown rapidly accompanied by the use of the features on increasingly popular mobile / PDA such as cameras and wireless connections, making it easier to do publicity images quickly. As the old saying says “a picture means a thousand words”, the moblogger can express what they want through images “on the fly”.
Be prepared to Blogger
The emergence of bloggers increasing every day making the Internet increasingly filled with new information A person may not need all that information, but everyone will need an information and information needed may be available on one blog. Decided to become a blogger that decided to appear in public, what you convey can be admired, praised, or otherwise denied, corrected, and reviled by others in the form of comments (or even a rival blog!). Publications and information you convey to the public, will follow the assessment process that determines whether your information will be liked or not liked (which would, they can make you popular). Some of the same opinion with regard blog diary book there is a clear expression, ie both blogs and diaries are an expression of heart and mind, but there are great differences between them. Diary writing for himself, while in a blog, you write a blog to be read by others. This is an important foundation in creating blogs. With this basis, you certainly will try to make writing an objective, ethical, responsible, and certainly useful for others. Happy blogging!