What is a blog? What are its uses? Why it is so popular?

These are the questions which most of the people ask me. So first let me tell you what a blog exactly is….

A blog is a short word representing “Weblog”. It is an online journal usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of business news or some events or personal things which they like to share with the world. In my opinion it is an interactive media to share thoughts, where authors and readers can interact with each other on single platform.

The person who writes blog entries is known as blogger. Blogs have become very popular nowadays, people mainly use it to share the word that they know. It has become a successful and dynamic profession internally, there are some specific bloggers who have become most popular in blogging. Bloggers enjoy blogging for reasons such as staying in touch with friends, expressing themselves or keeping a record of important events.

Many people even make money through blogging. So if you are interested in starting a blog of your own then there are many tools and services to help you out. The popular services are Blogger.com and WordPress.com

Just visit any of the website mentioned above and START BLOGGING!!!