Blogs have emerged almost at the same time as the Web during the 90’s. Do you know from where the word blog comes? Blog is a derivation of “Web log”, a term used in the early 90’s for the log of visitors that the administrator of a Web server could see.
Jorn Barger used for the first time the word “weblog” in the title of his personal website Robot Wisdom: A Weblog by Jorn Barger . His website was a list of links to other sites. The site was updated almost daily and new entries appeared on top.
In his book Blogging, Jill Walker re-publishes the first few lines of Robot Wisdom:
Blogs today can include more than text and links, we find also images, video, and/or audio content.
In its more than 30 years of existence, blogs' topics have exponentially increased . Experienced bloggers recommend to write for a specific niche, which go from traditional topics like Lifestyle, Technology, Cooking, Education, Blogging, to curiously specific areas like Ants, Stationary, Succulent plants... the list is truly endless.
SO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BLOG AND A WEBSITE?
As I wrote before, if you google "how to create a blog" the amount of information that you are going to encounter is huge. However, one of the constant things that you are going to find is a number of steps about how to create a website... Why?
Well, yes... the first blog ever created was a personal website... and yes, all blogs need to be on the web, so they need to be a website. This is quite obvious, but we all here at read.cash are blogging with no need of taking care of hosting services, html, css, or java.
So, strictly speaking, no, you don't need to build a website in order to have a blog. And of course, read.cash is not the only website providing a space in the web to have a personal blog. Blogger.com, Facebook, and even Twitter (microblogging) are different examples of it.
Nonetheless, new issues arise.
Why do you want to have a blog?
Are any of the existing blogging platforms fulfilling what you want to do?
Do you want to monetize your blog?
What audience do you want to reach?
SOME CONCLUSIONS
In my own words, a blog is a way of online publishing that includes a wide variety of topics. Blogs share a writing style that usually is easy to read, with small paragraphs, short sections, personal references, and fresh sentences.
Bloggers are not constrained to such a writing style, but the general tendency is "entertaining, informative, and/or inspirational, easy reading".
Having a blog and building a website are not the same thing. You do not need to build a website to blog, just go to some blogging platform and start writing! You can blog with no need of understanding what a CMS is. All depends on what you want to achieve with your blog.
Blogs came to stay.
<ul>Lists are also a common thing among the blogging writing style</ul>And you can make use of all the power of internet in your writing.
Like a link to somewhere else.
Or emojis 😂
Or a video
Or the most powerful weapon on the internet... a cat's pic.
See you soon!
If you plan to be very profitable in being an online writer, I have to say that you must highly consider building your own site. If you just blog on platforms such as this one, you are subject to the rules within it, which could sometimes be frustrating. For months now, I've been diversifying my income from various platforms which include Read.cash, which I dearly love. But to make the most out of my earnings as a writer, I work for other sites too, which include my very own website.