ICT Lesson ~ Blogs

A blog is a website where someone (usually a normal person - not a professional writer) writes about a topic.

Blogs can be personal (someone writing about their own life, or their personal views), based on an interest (e.g. football), or some businesses also use blogs to write about new products, etc.

A blog allows someone to be a writer and publisher on the Web with very little effort or cost. A blog can be setup with just a few clicks, whereas a few years ago you'd need a lot of technical knowledge to create your own website.

Many blogs have systems that allow readers to leave comments and begin discussions connected with the blog posts.

Blogging (the act of writing a blog) has become very popular over the past decade or so (there are well over 200 million unique blogs).

Some blogs are very popular and have hundreds of thousands of readers, but many are only read by a tiny number of readers (probably just the writer's family and friends!)

Blogs allow people to publish their views and opinions very easily, without anyone else checking what they are writing. For this reason, it is very important that you do not take the viewpoints expressed on blogs as facts - they are just one person's opinion and maybe factually very wrong.