A blog is a Website or a Web page, in which an individual records opinion links to the other sites on regular basis. A blog content is written frequently and added in a chronological order. It is written online and visible to everyone.
A typical block combines text, images and links to other blogs, Web pages and other media related to its topic. In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs. The entries of blog are also known as posts.
A person who writes a blog or a Weblog is known as blogger. Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog.
Blogs are fall into the various categories: Personal blog, News and views, company blogs and Micro-blogs.
Advantages of blogs
1. You can work at any time of the day and work with your ease.
2. Blogging does not require more effort to write articles for his/her blog.
3. Easy and quick to update or add new posts.
4. People can leave comments on your blog.
5. It increases blog revenue.
6. Blogs can be set-up quickly.
7. It is all about being social. You blogger need to answer to people queries and for that, reading should be a part of day-to-day tasks.
Disadvantages of Blogs
1. The common problem of full time blogger is isolation from society.
2. Mostly people love blogging but they don't have a source of income. Some choose freelance writing job for earning money and few chooses to depend on their parent to fulfill the need of money.
3. If the blogger get ill, then they don't get time to update their blog and it ultimately result in loss of blog income and traffic.