Introduction-Blogger

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Blogging, short for Web Logging, is the term used for something
as simple as maintaining a diary or journal online. For those not
in the habit of maintaining a diary, a blog is a place to jot down
thoughts. It can be a record of events that can make an inter-
esting read a few years down the line. It can be something as mun-
dane as a daily work schedule, or it can be something as
interesting as a daily record of a journey through space: check out
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/, the blog of Anousheh Ansari, the
first female space tourist.
A Blog can be personal—a single person’s notes—or communal,
where a group of individuals contribute, like members of an organ-
isation. Blogs can offer a glimpse into the life of a person; they can
be informative; they can be the ramblings of a like-minded soul;
they can be all about what someone has found interesting online;
in fact, they can be a lot of things, and there are as many reasons
to read blogs as there are to maintain one.
Given the ease with which a blog can be created online—there
are free tools to create and host them—it is easy to understand the
popularity they have attained. Blogger is Google’s response to the
popular need to blog. While Blogger is the tool used to create
blogs, the blogs themselves are hosted at blogspot.com.
Blogger is the result of Google’s acquisition of Pyra Labs, the cre-
tors of Blogger—a Web logging tool, and Blogspot—a Web log host.