With the recent rise in advanced social networking websites like MySpace, FaceBook, and Xanga, where the young and would-be cool like to spend their time, much in the way they congregate at their local malls, the personal blog as a means of communicating has taken on new significance.
But the blog is nothing new, and is certainly not the creation of the social networking site. Blogging, in fact, has been going on for well over a decade, and was originally called journaling.
The term weblog was actually coined in 1994, and was transformed to blog in 1999 by Peter Merholz, when the early blogging hosts appeared. http://Blogger.com, which now belongs to Google, showed up at about that time. In the early days of blogging, most bloggers limited themselves to recording the details of their daily lives.
But blogging has now become an important tool for politicians, entrepreneurs, charities, and almost anyone who needs an inexpensive way to reach a big audience.
Blogging is ideal for those who have a lot to say and not much time in which to say it. Free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress enable the busy blogger to post even while he or she holding...