How it begins.
I’ve set up this blog for my DDP assignment, a “Professional Weblog” that should discuss blogging as a new form of media publishing.
I’m sure many of my schoolmates will agree — ours is a generation that is no stranger to blogging. But for this particular assigment, I decided to try something different.
- I started this new blog on Word Press, although I’m more familiar with Blogger and Multiply.
- I have a tendency to rant and ramble on my personal blog. But this being a more professional weblog, I will consciously have to reign myself in.
- I intend to make full use of all the blogging utilities out there, to illustrate the point that blogging has evolved into much more than just an “online diary”.
Blogging, or Web Logging, is a common internet phenomena that has grown surprisingly fast over the past few years. Wikipedia defines it as “a website where entires are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.”
Most blogs are personal diaries, relaying the incidences of the owner’s day. It’s usually written in informal language, and normally written for a personal and familiar audience. But there are also many blogs out there that are professional in nature. News, current affairs, music and entertainment, special interests etc, there are professional blogs for everything and anything we can think of.
Blogging is such an important aspect in the world, that everyone from international companies to music artistes to private organisation have have jumped onto the bandwagon. (I intend to explore this further is later posts).
The phenomena has grown exponentially utilising its universal appeal and reach to people of all ages. To meet this demand, many utilities have cropped up to enhance the experience of blogging. This blog will attempt to explore the phenomenon that is blogging, and the many tools and utilities that have eveolved from blogging. And in the spirit of blogging, the language use shall be personal, informal and fun!
