What is blog? It's a special service provided by website, which directly involves three parties:blogger or blog writer, viewer and the service provider.Blogger writes short articles, update postings. Viewer reads the articles and gives comments. Service provider makes money through creating a community culture and selling advertisements. The idea behind blog is communication and sharing. We share information, ideas, emotions, whatever.
There are two types of blogs. One is like micro media playing the role of propaganda. It's more professional, usually focus on a specific field such as economics, politics,etc. As a result of its readability and authority, it's very popular. I myself visit two such blogs regularly and learned a lot. Through their description, I foster a broad horizon and discover a more beautiful and interesting world. I'd like to share them with you. They are:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/luweiluqiu
http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/ruichenggang
The other type is comparatively personal. Just write down what happened to you and your thoughts about them, so your friends can share your experiences.
Next I would like to introduce three concepts derived from blog. Traditionally, a blogger is one single person, what if a group of people work on the same blog? We call it group blog. If a number of blogs combine together, it forms blog circle, just like a virtual community. The above two concepts are extension for subjects, let's move on to the media, or rather say form. Today, texts and pictures are used for blog, what about audio and video? That is podcast. But I don't see much opportunity for the widespread of podcast. Just like sms(short messaging service) and mms(multimedia messaging service). Podcast is a little bit complex and encounters more limitations. The more simple, the better.
In the end, I strongly recommend you to create your own blog. It's amazing.
