Saturday, May 08, 2004

I finally learnt how to blog!


What's a blog?!

Its amazing. After reading about weblogs, I finally found out how to do it myself !

First of all, what is a "blog" ? I took this definition of a blog from Wikipedia (more about what in the world is wikipedia later -- http://www.wikipedia.com) :

A weblog, Web log or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic posts on a common webpage. These posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order. Such a Web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user. The term "blog" came into common use as a way of avoiding confusion with the term server log.

Blogs run from individual diaries to arms of
political campaigns, media programs and corporations, and from one occasional author to having large communities of writers. Some are maintained by single authors, while others have multiple authors.

Well, to me a blog is an internet based diary. Just think, the moment you blog your thoughts can be shared with everyone on the internet (especially if you get indexed by google). Not only that, your blog might be preserved for generations to come. Imagine years from now, your great grand children would be reading your blog to figure out who their ancestor was !

Here's how to do it!

How do you start your own blog ? Simple as 1, 2 3, just go to http://www.blogger.com

Follow the easy steps outlined in blogger. I did, and my first blog posting was done in 10 minutes. At the third step prescribed in blogger, you get to publish your blog ..... in that process blogger generates your very own url (e.g. http://chris-open-book.blogspot.com/) for your blog. Try it !

My first blog started in May 2004. It is entitled "My Purpose Driven Life" at http://purpose_driven_life.blogspot.com/.

My second blog was started in Dec 2004, it is called "Open Book" and it can be found at http://chris-open-book.blogspot.com/.

Hope you enjoy my blogs. See ya !
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