In Common terms associated with blogging – part 1, we examined a wide range of words that make up blog terminology. We have gone far enough for you to understand a few more before we continue.
Blogosphere: the blogosphere, in my own words, is a virtual community that constitutes all blogs on the web. It is [...]

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Have you ever met a particular page in a book that is so interesting that you will like to mark (keep) it and go back to it some other time? That is what is called bookmarking. Normally, to bookmark a page in a book, one needs just to copy the page number and write it [...]

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I don’t want to visit a blog, stare at the home page and then leave. Do you? What do I benefit from staring? Nothing! Why did I visit the blog anyway? Maybe I just wanted to have a look. Having a look actually means looking around, so there are probably many things I will like [...]

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The Internet is a very “free” medium with very little or no rules for surfers. Everyone goes where just anywhere at anytime and I guess the “internet traffic police” really don’t have anything to say. I doubt if they even love their jobs…
Some websites and social networks are a bit complicated to handle, at least [...]

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You don’t blog just because you see other blogging. No! That will be good, at least, because you have a motivation; but that will be a very poor motivation if you don’t blend it with a focus. Your blogging should be oriented towards a particular direction. You must have a focus. Even blogs named “miscellaneous” [...]

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Generally, what will you see when you visit a majority of blogs? This is the question I am trying to answer here.
There won’t be a specific answer to the above question because there are thousands of themes (templates) out there for bloggers to use, and each blog’s look and features will depend on the theme [...]

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If you are a newbie to blogging, you certainly must have pondered on this. I can bet you have had previous experiences with a vast number of websites, and some social networks (communities) like Myspace, Hi5, Facebook…etc. For someone who has visited numerous blogs, it is very easy to recognize a blog even when half [...]

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Why blogging became so popular? I pondered on this question for sometime when I entered the blog world. Please have a look at this post that discusses the history of blogging and examines the timeline. From the timeline it seems as though blogging was born overnight and just got matured the next day. Why so?
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History? Who cares? Most people don’t want to know how anything came about. They just want to use it. The past is the past and most people don’t care checking it out. Someone said “You can’t know where you are going to unless you know where you came from”, so, lets know where blogging came [...]

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What is a blog? Oh! I don’t expect you’ll still ask that unless you just came in. if you did just join the team, I guess there are some posts you need to read before coming to this. I give you the challenge of finding your way around here. If you can’t, make sure you [...]

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