WHAT
IS BLOGGER?
by
Antonio C. Antonio
April
29, 2014
Blogger,
or blog, or blogging is a relatively new means for internet users to publish
their ideas in written form. These may
come in the form of technical papers, reports, studies or as ordinary news or
information articles. The purpose and
objective of Blogger is to expand the information data base in the Internet which
anyone can contribute. Blogs come in
handy for people doing Internet-based research.
Blogger may also refer to a person who writes a blog or weblog or a web
service for publishing blogs.
Blogger
was launched by Pyra Labs in August 23, 1999 as one of the earliest dedicated
blog-publishing tools which steadily gained popularity among bloggers. Blogger was developed by Pyra Labs, which was
bought by Google in February 2003.
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with
time-stamped entries. Generally, the
blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomaine of “blogspot.com”. A year after Google acquired the
blog-publishing tools, the company also purchased Picasa and integrated its
photo sharing utility (Hello) into Blogger which allowed users the ability to post
photos to their blogs. By May 2007,
Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers.
Blogs
are multi-disciplinary. They cover most
anything under the sun… if they don’t talk about the sun itself. Depending on the background and concerns of
the blogger, readers expect that his/her chosen subject is within his/her core
competency. Although blogs are very
subjective, users and readers alike are expected to use their own discretion
and acquired knowledge and understanding to decide on a synthesis for whatever
idea or information that is being presented.
Just
my little thoughts…
(Personal
Note: I would like to thank Dean
Inocencio E. Buot, Jr. and Ms. Jacqueline E. Baula for encouraging me to blog. You guys just don’t realize what you have
unleashed on the world!)
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