Since around 1994 when blogging started, it has become in integral part of the internet and a world wide culture. Blogs are a place to express yourself, and if used correctly, they can be a successful form of communication. Blogging has increased the sense of a world wide community, as people from all around the world can communicate with one of another. As I will talk about later, there are times when blogging has been used with the wrong intentions. But for the most part, blogging has enhanced the internet.
The idea of a blog has been around for many years. Blog, or web log, has exploded recently, and has become one of the most popular forms of communication over the Internet. The blog slowly evolved into what it has become today. A blog is an open forum for discussion, where you control what is talked about. It can range from an online diary, where a blogger can talk about themselves, to a place to discuss politics, sports, and recipes. Before the blog came to the Internet in 1994, the bulletin board system was used, where one would call into the system and be able to perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. Email lists were also used as a blog-like system, in which emails would be sent to mass amounts of people to read what the writer had to say. In 1994, online journal and diaries began being published. This was followed by personal home pages, where one could make a website about themselves, free to say whatever they wanted. OpenDiary and LiveJournal were two of the few first blog websites. Since then, the world of blogging has opened up into many different spheres. There are many topic specific blogging websites, such as fashion, travel, and business blogs. Blogging reached a new level recently, when companies started using blogging as a form of advertisements. Many bloggers dislike this idea, as they see blogging as a way to avoid ads and get down to the nitty gritty. But for some bloggers, who have made blogging their careers, advertising on their blogs are their sources of income. I think that the whole idea of advertisements in blogging is low. One of the highlights of blogging is that it is free from constrictions and enforcement. Blogging is a free flowing community where anything could be said, and advertisements just don't fit into that idea. People do not blog for money or profit, they do it to get things off their chest and put their ideas out there. Blogs are just a place to exchange ideas and thoughts about anything.
This video shows the effects that blogging has had on American society. Like advertisements in blogging, using blogs towards your political agenda ruins the point. But at the same time, this video shows how influential blogging is, as intellectuals are interviewed on public television about blogging and its effects on our culture, here politics.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Revision as of 23:08, 2 January 2007 by Mmmovie, Retrieved January 25, 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blog&oldid=98042185
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