Blog is short for "web log" is a Web application that resembles the writings (published as a post) on a public web page. These writings are often published in reverse order (newest content first and then followed the older content), although not always the case. Such websites can usually be accessed by all users of the Internet in accordance with the topics and goals of the user's blog.
Blogs have a very diverse functions, from a diary, media publicity in a political campaign, through media programs and corporations. Some blog maintained by a single author, while others by several authors. Many weblogs also have the facility of interaction with the audience, such as using the guest book and comment columns to allow its visitors to leave comments on the contents of the published writings, however, there is also the opposite or a non-interactive.
Web sites that are related thanks to the weblog, or a total of a collection of weblogs often referred to as the blogosphere. Whenever a collection of wave activity, information and opinions are very large recurring for some very controversial subjects or occur in the blogosphere, it is often referred to as a storm blogstorm or blog.
There are over 10 million blogs can be found on the Internet. And can still grow even more, because now there is a lot of software, tools and other Internet applications that make it easier for bloggers (the term blog owner) to take care of their blogs. In addition to caring for and continue to update them on his blog, the bloggers are relatively new and still often do blogwalking, the activity in which the blogger left a link on your blog or website while others leave a comment.
Some bloggers now have even made the blog as the main source of income through AdSense advertising program, post paid, selling links, affiliates and others. So then came the term professional blogger or problogger, people who depend only from blogging activity. Because it is in fact a lot of channel-channel fund revenue in the form of dollar or rupiah of this blogging activity.
Blogger or Blogspot is now called familiar among bloggers. This free blog service providers are large companies that compete with WordPress so is arguably the number one free blog providers worldwide best-seller.
Here's History Bloggers
Blogger is actually a blog publishing system (blog publishing system) that was originally created by Pyra Labs on August 23, 1999 and is a dedicated blog-publishing tool was first intended to help popularize the format. In February 2003, due to its popularity, eventually Pyra Labs was acquired by Google. This acquisition led to premium features that were previously charged, then turns free.
In 2004, Google introduced its new service "Picasa", which is an application for organizing and editing digital photos. The service is then integrated in photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing a user blogger to post photos in your blog they made. On May 9, 2004, "Blogger" to redesign the main display, various changes were made in the Blogger by adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments and posting menggunankan email.
On 14 August 2006, "Blogger" launched the latest release in the "beta" code "invader", along with the release version of Gold. This makes the migration of users to Google servers and is accompanied by the addition of some "new features" in it. In December 2006, the latest version of Blogger is finally no longer in "beta" and the "May 2007", Blogger has really moved to Google servers.
