BLOGS and BLOGGING

WEB LOG or known as BLOG, A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts or an individual records opinions and a personal website or web page on which links to other sites, Web links, etc. on a regular basis. Instead of traditional websites, which provided plenty of information but no way for users to interact or provide their own opinion, Most blogs allow readers to comment on a story contained in the blog, the commenting feature in a blog makes it interactive.  

Thus blogs have become vastly popular with visitors. Most people find maintaining a blog and adding content to it much easier than trying to maintain a full-blown website. Blogs can act as websites on their own. Because of enhanced features in blogs and available free blog templates, a blog can be set up with various categories, just as a website would be organized. However,A blog can be hosted on its own domain - just like a website - or it can be hosted through a free blog hosting service, such as WordPress or Google's Blogger. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server’s log files.

BLOGGING

is the act of posting content on a blog (a Web log or online journal) or posting comments on someone else's blog. Blogging doesn't require that writers and contributors know a lot about HTML (Web page code). If a blogger or visitor can fill in an online form, they can blog and post comments on other blogs, It allows people to interact with each other.

Blogging has become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index which is why blogging is very popular today.

Additionally, blog content can be delivered automatically via electronic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds. Visitors subscribe to a blog's feeds in order to stay up to date with content that's being posted on subjects that interest them. Blog feeds are then read by what's known as blog feed reader software, widely available for free, so users can scan for recent blog posts of interest on the blogs to which they subscribe.