Blogs new phenomenon and how they have affected our community

Blogging is a new phenomenon, blogs have become a much better and easier source to find and help people with updates about issues, news, sports and shopping. For example what’s good to buy online. It has changed over the past years and has improved. It’s now used to describe personal websites that offer observations, news, headlines, commentary, recommend links and/ or diary entries generally organised chronologically. Blogs are designed so people can check the short updates faster online; the new phenomenon began in April 1997.

Bloggists conformed lists of other blogs that they found interesting and programmers started to develop tools to computerize the procedure of frequently updating blogs (blood, 2000). At that time, most blogs became websites that presented links to websites and news articles that the author found interesting. Blogs started to take on new shapes as the medium began to gain mass. This procedure increased as the process of blogging became simpler with the advent of web-based tools such as Blogger, Pita, Groksoup, Diary land, Live Journal and others (Larisa, 2001).

Blogs have affected our community as it has made it aware of easier ways to seek information. People can comment, find easy access to information and read to see what other people’s opinions are on topics. There are all sorts of blogs being made all over the Internet. An example is a cooking blog. This is where you can find a recipe you are looking for and you can ask specific information. For example if you can use another ingredient or you can even comment saying perhaps another type of sugar works better. After making it, you can also comment on the finished product.