Are Blogs of the Future of Written Human Culture?


The rising popularity of blogs on the Internet is quite clear and it seems to be something that the people really like. It is also a good measurement of what society is thinking at a particular period of time. Are blogs the future of written human culture; they very well may be. I wish to go on the record in stating that Blogs will indeed paint a picture of what the society was like in this decade. So be careful what you write, how you act and what you say.

If Blogs do not tell of what our society is, How will the Present Period be Recorded in History?

I am certain that the information on our Blogs will tell a story and that story will go down in history as much or more than the headlines, names or events of our day. Because Blogs are all that and more, they tell our story. This is why I believe that Blogging does matter.

If so perhaps then we owe it to ourselves to make our Blogs accurately correct as we discuss the future and do it with the written word on the Internet and videos and art and pictures, even audio.

If someone tries to tell you that what you are writing on your Blog does not matter or is irrelevant then you should be skeptical of their motives. Do not allow that to stop you. Let's here what you have to say; what everyone has to say and let's take that information to make history today.

I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.

Seven Good Reasons Why We Love Blogs


The popularity of blogs had been increasing around the world. So, why are we using blogs?

Easy to get started

Traditionally, building a website is no easy task. Even if you’re using web-building tools such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver, you’ll need a certain skill of html to handle it. Now back in those days, you’ll need to have more advance skills to have extra features on your web.

With the help of blog, it is much easier to implement. You don’t need any sort of web building skills to build a blog. If you know how to use MS word, that’s it! Because most of your time will be typing articles and press the submit button. Blog is actually very user-friendly software.

Easy to maintain

Let’s say if you want to categorize your articles, there’s a lot of work to do if you’re using the traditional web building tools. You’ll need to create separate pages and link these pages to your index page. Keep track of all these file names and links can be quite annoying.

As I’ve mentioned before, most of your time spend in blogging is to write article and submit it. For the same scenario, if you want to create several catalogs, all you’ve to do is to click a few buttons. Next time, if you want to assign an article to a certain catalog, you just have to select the appropriate one and click it. It’s pretty simple. You can forget about all those file names.

Blog will also automatically post you most recent article on the top of the page and archive your old ones so you don’t have to bother handling those files.

Post your article anytime, anywhere

In the traditional way, you’ll need ftp software to upload your new created pages to your website. Under some circumstances, you may have problem installing the ftp software for example in the office they may not allow you to install software in it.

One of the great advantages of Blog is that Blog allow you to post online. As it is web-based, you can post your article anytime, anywhere as long as you can connect to the Internet. So, absolutely you don’t have any problem when you want to write some articles during your lunch hours.

Freeware

Blog software such as Wordpress is free of charge, which means you can use it without paying any cost. Basically, it already contains the core components for you like auto archive, comments module (the age of guestbook is over), search module and more. Unlike FrontPage and Dreamweaver in which you’ve to pay for it.

Free hosting

There are a number of websites providing free hosting service for blogs. The most famous one is Blogger. WordPress.com is also another good choices. You can also host it in other hosting companies as well like me. So, you may ask what’s the difference between free hosting and host it yourselves in other hosting companies. I’ll explain that later.

Easy to roll out new features and its free again!

After using it for a while, you may become familiar with it and want to have more features, for example the polls feature which allows reader to vote. All you’ve to do is to download the related plug-in and installed in your blog. In this case, you’ll need to download the polls plug-in. Just to remind you, these plug-in are all free and this is many different plug-in that you can download and set in your blog. All free!

Search Engine Friendly

Blog is not only user friendly but the technical aspects behind it also make it search engine friendly. Traditional, URL for each post is hard to read either by human or machine. But with a few clicks in the option settings, you can change all your post’s URL into this.

http://moneybloggers.net/this-is-an-example-posts.htm

It turns out to be much more meaningful and search engine friendly.

Of course there are still many reasons out there, but I think the reasons above already represent most of them as well as to give you an idea why we use blogs.