A History of Blogging
The story of blogs, though short, is quite interesting in its own right. The word blog itself is short for “web log”, and there is general debate on when the first blogs truly began to appear. The word itself, however, was coined in 1999; the word “weblog” appeared in 1997, and a shortening of the term to the word “blog” appeared on message boards around 1999. More »
Starting a Blog
On the surface, becoming a blogger is amazingly, even ridiculously easy. You simply go to one of the multitudes of blogging websites out there, sign up with a free account, and boom: you’re blogging away! That’s the impression that many people have of blogging, and it’s not technically wrong. More »
The Advantages of Using an Offline Blog Editor
If you are a prolific blogger and update blog posts daily, have you considered the advantages of not relying on internet access every day? Most bloggers open blogger or WordPress and enter a post and submit it. But what happens if your copied word document text looks ugly in the WordPress window, or the web server goes down and you lose your work. More »
Becoming a Successful Blogger
Let’s face it: there are thousands, if not millions of bloggers in the world today, and it’s fair to say that student blogging is no small share of them. Blogging has become one of the easiest ways of expressing yourself in today’s modern world, but as a result of the proliferation of blogs it’s become that much harder to be a successful blog. More »
Why Become a Blogger?
The existential question of blogging and its purpose seems to be the primary reason why many people seem to be ambivalent towards the practice of blogging. More »
The Art of Blogging
Blogging has, almost since its inception, been a medium that encourages a certain levelling of social norms and preconceptions. Blogs on a whole are very different from the websites of old; they don’t cost a significant amount of money to maintain, they don’t require a heavy investment of time, and perhaps most importantly, they don’t require the blog creator to have an overwhelming amount of knowledge as to how to build a website. More »