by: Bigcat
I am a blogger. A blogger is someone who publishes an online journal or blog through the internet. Like a journal, anything can be written on a blog such as thoughts, feelings, interests, opinions, daily events, or anything where the limit is one’s imagination. Sports and other hobbies can be age restrictive but blogging is for everybody. A person can easily join the blogosphere (population of people who blog) and following these steps can help one start his or her own blog.
First, one needs to decide which website will host his or her blogs. Popular internet sites that offer free blog hosting include: My Space, Facebook, Friendster, Multiply, Yahoo, MSN and Blogger. After choosing your hosting site, signing up is necessary to create the blog. Basic information must be provided such as name, age, gender, birthday, location; the user must agree to the hosting website’s User Terms and Agreements to register. You will also be asked to provide title of your personal blog. Once the registration is successful, you will be redirected to your personal page where the collection of blogs will be published. This page will now be called your blog site.
The next step is composing and publishing a blog about any wide array of topics. Examples of topics can be commentary on news, opinions on a certain subject, sharing an unforgettable event or it can be one sentence that tells other what you are currently doing. My blog site entitled “Random Roars” publishes different topics; movieblogs are about my ratings to movies I have seen; shirtblog showcases my shirt collection and the story behind each one; bookblogs are about the books I have read and how I liked reading it; mediabox is about sharing my favorite video or music for the week; random roars are random thoughts and opinions to any topics or how I feel that day. Blog topics can also be trimmed down to the targeted audience. Some blog sites are politics-oriented, tech-savy, or the latest showbiz gossips. A blogger can blog on any chosen topic but it has to abide to the hosting sites’ rules and regulations.
Lastly, registration and publishing your blogs is half of the work and the other half is maintaining it. Besides not being age restrictive, it is also not time demanding. Updating a blog site can be done at one’s own convenience. Blog posting can be done once a day, twice a week or every month. But if you want to attract visitors to your blog site, it is recommended to update entries at least four times in a week. A blogger can also add blog utilities that can entice more visitors like: visitor web counters, suggestion box, chat box or any other utility offered by the hosting website.
Blogging is both empowering and rewarding. It is empowering because I am able to voice out my thoughts, opinions and share piece of my mind. It is rewarding when visitors acknowledge my blog, writes compliments, post nice comments on my entries, and endorses my blog site on their own blogs. My blog archive serves as footprints of my work. Every entry was given thought and time, and every blog are meaningful and special. I will always be a netizen of blogosphere. I am a blogger.
