Introduction:
The term blog actually meant different things to different people. Ideally, to most of the technology savvy it meant "CMS" which is short for content management system. We personally have visited many websites and most of it as can be observed are diaries that were created and sorted according to time and date. But surely a blog is not limited to jsut that and in reality it can be a whole lot more.A website in the past used a specific code (HTML) that allows the computer to understand the intention of the author. In the past, this knowledge belonged to only a limited few and in fact it still does as far as more than just the basics are concern. I will not go into the technical side here. It would defeat the purpose of this post. However for our understanding, the evolution of designing a website has been made very easy, even for lay people to the extend that it requires only a few push of a button.
Content: People create blogs to publish just about anything from diaries to politics and gizmos. Some even created websites to win back their girlfriend. In the end, the bottom line is to make yourself published. Generally, when you publish a blog on your own, you are free to do and say out your ideas. Others might have different views and opinions, but just like yourself others too can have have their say.
However, there are few exceptions that you should be consider especially when you affiliate yourself with other. When you publish a blog, anyone on the globe with an internet access will be able to view what you said and perhaps they like to know more about your ideas. Obviously, the last thing that anybody wanted is to surf your blog only to find a lot of international garbage lying around. It would be a waste of their time and perhaps even yours.
Similarly, the content of your blog indirectly will be the representation of the person you affiliate yourself with. Perhaps your lecturers and even your Professors if you are in education industry. Rest assured that after a few visits to blogs that does no good to the visitors, the tags will automatically be transparent and ignored. If you are in marketing ... it simply means very bad business!
Here is a golden rule for a good blog. The golden rule of the thumb is originality. This is a fact ignored by bloggers at the expense of mere publishing. For others, they might even be married to a website and the saying could have not been more true. There would be no point to browse into a blog only to find what they could easily find in commercial website. In stressing the originality of your content, you blog naturally have to look feel and reads r-a-r-e. It is a matter of simple understanding really. There is no significance to fix a Ferrari engine to your car unless the body was design for a Ferrari. IMEO, it's hazardous !
©Copyright Faisal Bawazir Muchtar, UiTM 2008
The term blog actually meant different things to different people. Ideally, to most of the technology savvy it meant "CMS" which is short for content management system. We personally have visited many websites and most of it as can be observed are diaries that were created and sorted according to time and date. But surely a blog is not limited to jsut that and in reality it can be a whole lot more.A website in the past used a specific code (HTML) that allows the computer to understand the intention of the author. In the past, this knowledge belonged to only a limited few and in fact it still does as far as more than just the basics are concern. I will not go into the technical side here. It would defeat the purpose of this post. However for our understanding, the evolution of designing a website has been made very easy, even for lay people to the extend that it requires only a few push of a button.
Content: People create blogs to publish just about anything from diaries to politics and gizmos. Some even created websites to win back their girlfriend. In the end, the bottom line is to make yourself published. Generally, when you publish a blog on your own, you are free to do and say out your ideas. Others might have different views and opinions, but just like yourself others too can have have their say.
However, there are few exceptions that you should be consider especially when you affiliate yourself with other. When you publish a blog, anyone on the globe with an internet access will be able to view what you said and perhaps they like to know more about your ideas. Obviously, the last thing that anybody wanted is to surf your blog only to find a lot of international garbage lying around. It would be a waste of their time and perhaps even yours.
Similarly, the content of your blog indirectly will be the representation of the person you affiliate yourself with. Perhaps your lecturers and even your Professors if you are in education industry. Rest assured that after a few visits to blogs that does no good to the visitors, the tags will automatically be transparent and ignored. If you are in marketing ... it simply means very bad business!
Here is a golden rule for a good blog. The golden rule of the thumb is originality. This is a fact ignored by bloggers at the expense of mere publishing. For others, they might even be married to a website and the saying could have not been more true. There would be no point to browse into a blog only to find what they could easily find in commercial website. In stressing the originality of your content, you blog naturally have to look feel and reads r-a-r-e. It is a matter of simple understanding really. There is no significance to fix a Ferrari engine to your car unless the body was design for a Ferrari. IMEO, it's hazardous !
©Copyright Faisal Bawazir Muchtar, UiTM 2008
