Publishing blogs

A blog is short for online 'web log'. By publishing blogs, journalists and travel writers, out in the field, could keep a sort of online diary, or log their daily experiences. This has exploded into a new, dynamic, method of web - publishing. The most likely reason for this is that a blog is dynamic unlike a website which is largely static information. It has now become the best way to publicise a website. A blog can be read by a special 'feed reader' such as http://www.google.com/reader It's called a 'feed' reader because the 'blog' is 'fed' as a continuous string of articles in date order. (in the form of XML, but more about that later). If you want to write a blog, check out the free 'blogger' software http://www.blogger.com (so good that it was also acquired by Google). It's a simple to use, basic text/image handling and publishing tool for blogs. One problem with Blogger, is that it is hosted by Google, so you don't have total control, so another, better option is Wordpress to quote them...

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