The article is about the introduction of blogging. It is taken from Duck University. In it we can see the information about what is blog, In it we can see the information about the blog, the information about how to compose a post. The word “blog” is a contraction of “Web log”. It is an informational web page, the consists of discrete units and it called “posts”. There can be many types of blogs- Personal blog, Artistic blog, academic and professional. It is a unique form which creates opportunities for producing knowledge, sharing research, building, social network etc...

 Here is the information about composing a post. There is a description of principles which we have to follow during compositing post: 1. Make a point and the information about how to make a point 2. Be concise 3. Post often, here we have to update regularly and actively. 4. Consider inviting guest bloggers 5. It should be proofread 6.create visual interest During posting we should create a visual interest

Here we can use appropriate contain, size and quality. Here we can use images, which should easy to see. While interlinking to a online video, we should use a screenshot from that video as hyperlink, so it can provide a visual preview. Wherever possible we should provide captions for readers. Here we can use simple captions which will help readers identify the objects origin.

Hyperlinks are part of blogging which are very important in blogging. we can see some tips/examples to maintain a successful blog. In tips, we should use the tag function in each post to increase your traffics. You can links to similar blogs, we should handle comments with care.

In sum up, this is the article which gives an information about blog, how to use multimedia on the blog, how we can compose the post and at the end there are some tips which can maintain your blog.

The next article is about the history of blog. It explains about how the blog was in the early years, how it grew time by time. The first blog was links.net which was created by Justin hall in 1994. The term “web log” was coined in 1997. “Web log” was shorten to “blog” in 1999. In 1999, the platform was become “blogger”.

The early 2000 was the period of growth for blogs. In 1999 there were 23 blogs on the internet, by the middle of 2006 blogs were extended and there were 50 million. Political blog, Topic blogs were becoming more popular during this time. The first major blog engine was launched in 2002, the first major post casting service founded in 2003, video blogs started in 2004, so this is how the blogs are grown.

The history of “how blog is reached to main stream” this point is also covered in it. Blog were reaching the main stream in the mid 2000s.  There were 32 million Americans who read blogs in January 2005. In 2004 politicians, candidates and main stream news organizations began using blogs and 152 million blogs active by the end of 2010. Here we can the discussion about “The rise of microblogs and tumblogs”. Tumblr was the first major site to offer this type of service which is started in 2007. This site is not like traditional blogging service, but it allows the variety of different posts. Posterous is another similar service, started in 2008. It allows bloggers to set up a simple blog via email.

The future of blog is also discussed here. Blogs were becoming the primary point of communication for individuals online. Large numbers of people are using the blog and It develops day by day. So there are so many chances of development of blog.