What is a blog?

What is a blog?

A blog is form of commentary or a review on an event, or anything an individual may write about at regular intervals. They may include a large chunk of text, pictures, photos, videos, polls, quizzes, music clips or other form of graphics relating to the topic of the blog on a website. It is like a log of events. Information on it may be factual or based on the opinion of the individual writer.

Users may be allowed to comment on the commentary to express their views, allowing the author of the blog to receive formative feedback from other followers. Comments can be regulated by the author, selecting which comments may be displayed and which maybe removed, as it may be offensive to others. This makes the blog more interactive. A blog may be used as a means of communication, to get across the views of the author. The more interactive the blog is, chances are there will be more followers. Followers are people that subscribe to your blog.

Blogs are based on an individual’s interest. It may be a diary, or commentary on a team or sport that an individual follows, about their favourite celebrity, a discussion on a political issue or anything of interest to the writer. Businesses may use it for marketing purposes as blogs are accessible by anyone from anywhere in the world.

My particular blog is based on Snooker Grand Prix, where one may view the results of the current tournament and past recent ones, watch games online via videos uploaded on the site, take part in photo quizzes, view the roll of honour, schedule of tournament and much more to come. The link for the blog is:

http://snookergp09.blogspot.com/

Blogging has a huge scope for receiving formative feedbacks. If a follower does not comment much, or is too busy to comment, features such as reaction allows them to tick boxes to suggest whether they found the post funny, interesting or cool. This allows the author to observe what followers like best in their blog and what they should include more of to attain the followers’ attention.

Positive feedback via comments can motivate the author to do more on their blog, and constructive criticism can be used to improve and look, feel and other aspects of the blog.