What Are Blogs and Why Should I Build or Read Them
by ZhangYiningBlogs (short for “web logs”) are regularly updated Web site with entries posted in revere chronological order-in other words, newest entries on top. Web logs are regularly updated Web sites that provide a continuous stream of content, whether that be links to other stuff or just stuff of the author’s own creation. To me, a good blog is a log of “interesting stuff.” I think of a good blogger as a “pre-surfer”-a trusted person who spends a lot of time online looking for interesting things from the Web and the rest of the world to write about. Technorati.com, a blog indexing site, tracks over 57 million blogs and adds a staggering 100,000 new entries every day. With this many blogs online, it’s a sure bet that there are many blogs out there that you would be interested in, if you only knew about them. So how do you find out which blogs are a good match for your interests? Start by visiting Technorati’s page of popular blogs at technocrati. Here you can peruse the most linked-to blogs, the top search terms on Technorati (that is, the most common keywords used… Continue reading