Web Log 2
Think of it as your pocket diary for the Internet. You take your diary wherever you go, it could have phone numbers, your girlfriend’s or wife’s birthday, the three line poem you wrote and hundreds of useful bits and pieces of information, which make sense to you, and at times might make sense to others, too.
A weblog is something similar, but it is on the web. What it means is that you can log on from anywhere on the Internet, like a web-based email. It is a web page made by you, a list of short, time-stamped notes, with the newest items at the top. It can have your own tidbits about the latest flick in town, your thoughts on some page or article…
The advantages are many. You can share your web log with others. Make some of your logs public and some private and even let others add to your logs. It all depends on how you set it up, and to do that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist.
All you need to do is log into www.blogger.com. It is by far the best (correction: I can only say that I haven’t seen anything better, can’t be too sure about the Internet!) Easy to set up and use, your blog will be http://thenameyouselected.blogger.com. The edit window with post and publish buttons will get you started in no time. Blogger comes with wireless capability and, surprise, no banner ads. A recent issue of New Yorker Magazine ran a story on these guys, calling it a digital community on its own, and not just a web log.