What is blog?

I have discussed ways to earn money online and through blogs, but I forgot to define what blog is. Of course, if you want to find your niche, you must know the definition of a particular medium that will greatly contribute in earning bigger and bigger.

What is Blog anyway?
Blog is short for “web log.” It is synonymous to writing your diary or journal, only with the use of internet or web host. The posts or entries are arranged chronologically, like our diaries if regularly, we write what we have recollected for the past days we did or events we want to remember. In blogging, you can do the same, only the entries are organized by date you have posted them.

Why will you make a blog?
1) It’s definitely the “in” fad on the World Wide Web.
2) You can write almost everything about what you feel. If you’re happy, make the whole world feel happy.
3) The best way to communicate with your viewers, families and friends
4) For sellers, you can use blogs for free marketing tool For sellers, you can use blogs for free marketing tool.
5) You can add your preferred name on the domain name to make it more personalized. Like http://yourname.blogspot.com/
6) This is absolutely free.
7) You can earn money from your blog.

Where can I find blog hosts – for free?
The familiarity of blogs around the web makes the prominence of various blog hosts. These blog hosting sites provide almost everything that you’ll need and can make you create your blog in minutes.

Blogger – blogger.com is affiliated with Google. Now, think how easy to manage your blog with ready-made templates for YouTube, Adsense, Newsreel by Google News and even the HTML/JavaScript. This is highly recommended for the newbies in the blog industry.

WordPress – wordpress.com is another blog host that is commonly used by those techie guys. Why? You have to know what are CSS, XML, RSS. When I tried wordpress few months ago, I ended retreating to understand these stuffs. But, you have to explore and read first about WordPress, ‘coz they have more features to offer and there are many WordPress to choose from.

Blogsome – blogsome.com claimed to be a more customized wordpress. Well, they offer the wordpress themes and more users friendly. It’s like Blogger and WordPress in one host.

LiveJournal – livejournal.com is known for offering the “friend list” feature. This can be associated with your Friendster, Myspace, or Multiply account.

If you can still can’t find your blog host, you can view the list of all blog host lists here.