Evolution of Blog and Bloggers
The personal publication tool weblog or simply blog has undergone many transformations that is ever since the introduction of blog development tools like Blogger, Pitas in the year 1999. The blogs were viewed as personal publishing platform where one can post his or her experiences, complaints, happy moments and pet peeves and this was from the infant age to 2001. And this is because, the world business community has identified the potential of blogs to harness as a powerful marketing tool. Today, these blogs don’t confine to letters and words alone. Today, you can find photo blogs where one can publish photos, audio blogs, also called radio blogs where users can download and listen to audio messages or music and video blogs or blogs where video files are published. The publication of the syndication feeds like the RSS or Atom has also been included in the majority of bigger platforms of today. The user can now get the latest content via a desktop based feed reader or a web based feed reader like Google Reader at the same time, helping the ardent blog readers to keep in touch with the latest updates of a blog – be it anything like photo blogs, radio blogs or video blogs, through these feeds.