How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 01 : The Basics of Blogs
This post is the first part of my blogging series – How Blogging Has Evolved. Hope you enjoy the series. Stay tuned!
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 01 : The Basics of Blogs
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 02 : The Formation of the Modern Blogs
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 03 : Bloggers to Date
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 04 : Bloggers of Today
Introduction
The direction of blogs is constantly changing. The year of 2008 brought more widespread acceptance of the “social media revolution“, with more blogs adding Twitter and the like to their sidebars to more closely interact with their visitors.
Although the term “Blog” (or Weblog) wasn’t used in the news/media until the year 1998, personal blogs have existed for much longer than that. The first personal blogs contained links, images, and data about themselves — creating the personal aspect that we are trying to bring back today — as a result of the “monetization” of blogs. How have blogs changed the way everyone interacts, what is the direction that blogging is going, and what can we gain from blogging in this modern era?
First, the Basics of Blogs
We must first take some time to analyze the beginning of blogs and the direction that they have come from. They were originally a tool for people to more easily communicate with the world, literally. Previously, it took some type of coding (even with the advent of the first blog systems), which kept quite a few people from beginning a blog and didn’t view it as a legitimate source of income and to an extent, sharing their personal views.
Up until this point, the only way to contact the authors and publishers of websites was by sending them an email, a clunky way to provide what is supposed to be real-time feedback, viewable by everyone. Websites were one-sided, unless the author posted a comment from an email on their website, still an inconvenient way to connect with their readers.
In addition, another aspect of this lack of communication was the fact that there were very few services that allowed you to keep track of what you were doing online. Again, no social factor. While MySpace and Facebook didn’t originate and begin building a strong community until 2003/2004, there weren’t many other services (like Twitter, FeedBurner, and others) until later on in the development of the blog.
to be continued … 
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Can not wait for the sequel! You have stopped at the most interesting place!
the most important point of blog is your opinion. this opinion will bring people come and go..
Yes your opinion and your original post is the most important part of blogging. Sometimes we get distracted with too much of the social media tools we forget this.
Oh yes, i agree with you. Services like Twitter, Feedburner, digg,..etc have added a great interactivity in to blogs. Well, these social media services are certainly boosting up the blogs but the another aspect that you stated above “monetization”, is i think degrading the quality and blogs, these days seem to be more commercialized.
And ya i really appreciate your way to continue posts. I hope posting this way will certainly increase your visitors as bloggers like us are always intrested to read what you write next.
thanks
Thanks for the first part and I can’t wait for your sequel post…For me social media was not intended for bloggers (only). But social media changed blogging in a significant way.
The post is awesome !!
I also recommend Naked conversations ! the book is the best I’ve read about blogging !!
Hey, you went off with another subject for the new post! Where is the sequel?
I’m working on it dude
You can follow me on Twitter to know what I am doing http://twitter.com/nhc1987
This is exactly why I started blogging. It was easy, search engines seemed to love it, and the ability to interact, make changes, and reach the world was unmatched. I love blogging.
These is really an interesting post. I am addicted to blogging myself and I am very eager to learn more about it. Thanks for posting this.
You should read the rest of the series here. But you should also form your own opinion about blogging based on your own experiences.
Even though it seems we’ve come so far blogging it is still yet an infant or rather the teenage who thinks their an adult. What will be the next Twitter phenomenon?
Blogging will continue to evolve with the times. Great post to remind us all where it started.
I Have noticed bloging getting away from the community aspect and they are not sharing as many links or plunging as many other blogs. It is sad to see the community change like this.
I have read all this things on many blog but what makes your post special is the way you put them together, your personal touch and the language you used here really says a lot about your personality and your authority on topic in subject.