Blogging tutorial (1): What is a blog?

A blog is a website that collects a number of articles and serves as a diary or a platform for personal opinions .

In its simplest form, it is a web page that shows dated entries and a chronological order, The system also includes a mechanism for archiving the old entries, each of which has a permanent path from the moment of publication.

 The reader can refer to a specific post at a later time when it is no longer available on the first page of the blog. And prevents their degradation.

The blogging platform is an Internet application, in which blogs are written to convey news or expression of ideas. It works through a content management system like Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress.


This Web publishing mechanism isolates the user from the technical complexities usually associated with this medium, ie, the Internet, and allows each person to publish his or her writing very easily.

Many service providers have Web-based e-mail mechanisms that allow anyone to keep a blog through what they want by simply filling out forms and pressing buttons, and also offering complementary features, such as feed-in technology to facilitate updates to content Without the need to visit sites periodically and without the need to subscribe to mailing lists, and other services to link the blogging.

In addition to the most important feature is comments that interact with bloggers and readers, and newspapers and electronic journals are one of the aspects of advanced blogging.

From the point of view of sociology, the Internet views blogging as the means of dissemination to the public, which has increased the role of the World Wide Web as a means of expression and communication more than ever.

In addition to being a means of publishing, advertising and promoting various projects and campaigns. Blogging, in addition to e-mail, is the most important service ever seen on the Internet, followed by wiki.

The topics addressed by the publishers in their blogs range from dairy, thoughts, expression of ideas, literary production, news dissemination and specialized topics in the field of technology and the Internet itself.

While some bloggers devote their blogs to writing on one topic, there are others who deal with various topics in what they write.

There are also blogs that are limited to one person and other blogs that have a collective group in which many authors participate in articles.

 The content Also differs from written articles to photo blogging and commentaries and Video blogs have also recently been posted on the Internet called Vlogs, these  Vlogs are primarily based on video and audio content posted on video.