Assesment 1: Blogging

Blogging is one of the most popular forms of journalism; an online diary which you can update as and when.
It is a modern, convenient way of communicating in the 21st century. Blogging has fast become the best way of keeping up to date with current events, reviews and shows.
Many journalists are using internet blogging, as the internet is becoming more and more popular. It makes more sense to post a blog, as the chances are more people are going to see it; and if you’ve written it, it’ll always be there unless you chose to delete it.

Although blogging is a fairly new concept, it has already evolved since it began.
Blogging ranges from a simple site where you just upload a blog such as blogger.com to a website like Twitter, which uses a different concept of blogging, by only allowing you a certain amount of characters in hope you will update what you are doing as often as possible.
Another concept of blogging would be a site such as BBC News; where they update articles and news stories as often as possible.
This all shows how blogging, and the concept of blogging has changed throughout it’s history. It was mainly used for an online diary, but it has now evolved into something which the world has gone crazy about; updating every two minutes to inform people of what they are doing.

The main purpose of blogging is simply to express your opinion. Justin Hall who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers. This is generally where blogging began, more as personal diaries, which then evolved as more and more people became interested and joined the blogging trend.