Blogging: What is and why you need a

To understand the blog, first of all a bit 'of history is in order. The "blog" the word is short for "weblog". A weblog is a word coined early in the era of the Internet to describe a type of page journal or diary made up mostly of personal thoughts and reflections. Most of the time is updated frequently and may vary from the mundane to the profound topic. Does this sound familiar? It should. What is really when you get rid of the hype is good old diary that has been with us almost as language itself.

How long "Blog" is with us? Well, one of the earliest examples can be easily attributed to a work called "Kakheperresenb censorship", written by none other than Kakheperresenb Egyptian scribe himself. (Please do not groped to pronounce the name. You'll get a headache. We call it "K" from this point forward). "K" has been one of the first recordable blog entries in history around 2000 BC. Of course, "K" does not have the resources and the technology we have done today and his audience was probably limited in view of the fact that most of the population was illiterate.

"K" has left us with the memorable phrase, "'I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in a new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not a statement that the men of old have spoken. ' 'Obviously in this case, people with a blog still trying to figure out what to write!

But no seriously, the blog is the way to achieve fame and fortune and do some 'money on the side. Just ask Darren Rowse http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/09/01/im-a-six-figure-blogger/>, whose most recent (August 2005) Total income from Adsense was just over 16 thousand dollars! Yes, that was three zeros behind that 6. Not bad for a guy to write his own comments and musings on everything from sports shoes to bad movies. Of course, Darren went to the verge of taking a course in college about "Blogging Entrepeunerial". Needless to say that he should have paid attention.

But it is not necessary to follow a course to have a good blog that generates hits. Blogger Chris Wright extroidinairre http://www.yaps4u.net/job_blog/job_blog.html> has started his own, simply by posting job openings for engineers who came across during his research work. Word spread and soon made his hit count went on and on and on ... You get the picture. If you write something interesting that people should know that will come to you - invited or not. As history illustrates Chris.

Then run this by me again, you say? You mean all I have to do is just start writing things on - NOTHING?

No, not exactly. As always, the internet world and the real world, content is king. Writing must be kind of funny, sharp, witty, intelligent, bizarre or just so strange for people to connect to you as a unit and hence the visits to your blog and then fatten your wallet.

But notice how many options you have. You should not depend on your education. Nor need a rich and lavish lifestyle that you can blog while others read with envy. If you can make a boring, sad life of the people mean no one will be fun and interesting regardless. As mentioned above - content is king.

Good content = more visitors = more hits = more money for banners.

So, you want to know how to get started with this blogging thing?

It 's really very easy. There are a number of places that will allow you to host your blog and most of them do it for free. > Http :/ / www.blogger.com/ Blogger is probably the most popular. But there are others. Try some of these for size if you'd rather go the way most individual:

Http :/ / www.livejournal.com/ Livejournal> - This is the position of "kinda" cool and trendy crowd for virtual blogger. You can connect to other people by topic and has some other nice features like the ability to only allow messages from certain people.

Http :/ / www.diaryland.com/ Diaryland> - HID Diaryland not its origins. In fact it does it is best to try to make your weblog look as close as possible to the good old fashion journal / newspaper that we all know and love. Communities have a smaller and more intimate of some of the other locations.

What happens if you are not sure you want to start, but instead only want to read others 'blogs for a while' to obtain a better idea of ​​what you mean?

Well there are lots of sites that do nothing but blog list and aggregates of other people. Here are just a few to start:

Globeofblogs http://www.globeofblogs.com/> - Globe of blogs has a truly international flavor. You will find blogs from literally all over the world here.

Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/> - Another compendium of blogs on various topics ranging from weird to wonderful.

Blogsearchengine http://www.blogsearchengine.com/> - This cut site for hunting. If you want to search for blogs that do it for you. Simply enter the topic of interest to you.

Top-blogs.com http://www.top-blogs.com/> - Okay so you want to know more success stories? Discover those near the top of the listings here. You will then see what it takes to reach the top.

Well, hopefully you know enough to start your blog now. So what are you waiting for? Exit and BLOG! ......