To the rookie--the knowledge of blogs to know

About the blog's Chinese name, has been the focus of the domestic blog site discussion, so the blog in China also has a blog, blog, newspaper, tribe and the name of the blogger. In the absence of a definitive conclusion, I would prefer not to change its name, direct use of English blog, but also implied that the exchange of ideas without Borders. Literally, blog is the abbreviation of weblog, weblog is "Web" and "Log" combination, log Chinese meaning is "nautical log", extended to any type of water records, so weblog can be understood as a water on the internet record. This water flow on the Internet can be viewed as a personal web page in the form of a diary. The owner of the blog can be in the blog of their daily life experience, inspiration, ideas, proud speech, Web abstracts, news reviews, all heard, see, feel the things recorded, readers can also like to see the diary like the owner of the various ideas and experience. The owner of a blog is called a blogger or Weblogger, or blogger or blog that is often mentioned.
So, what's the difference between blogs and personal sites? In essence, blogs are the same as personal websites, and they all provide a platform for exchanging ideas and sharing information. However, the threshold of personal web site is higher, need to understand the knowledge of Web page production, and need to use FTP maintenance, spend a lot of time on the update page. Blog is a lot simpler, as long as you can use a computer typing, you can provide a free blog to write down their feelings, will feel by date, according to the classification of the Organization. Blogs also support new technologies such as RSS and RDF, which can send information to everyone faster and let readers know what you want in real time. Perhaps you will notice, writing blog and BBS posts similar, but BBS this kind of communication is difficult to keep your article for a long time, also can not organize the article system, blog but can easily do. BBS is like a bus, passengers can take the bus casually, but can not own the bus; Blog is a private car, he can let any author personalized his blog, including the appearance, content and even everything.

More and more people are using blogs, including U.S. President George W. Bush, Microsoft President Bill Gates, the impact of the blog is very big. In the United States, people through blogs vividly describe the terrorist attacks, and a profound reflection and discussion of the incident, in Iraq, people use blogs to send the world the latest reports, record the real life of Baghdad in the siege, in China, the blog is also active, Many news events are starting to arouse people's attention from an article in the blog. A blogger said that the role of journalists is weakening, to take from the various phenomena have a keen insight of professional bloggers. Blog will cause a strong impact on the traditional media, bringing about the change of network communication.