Blogging For Dummies
Chapter One
Understanding Blogging at Last
In This Chapter
* Defining blogs
* Introducing entries, index pages, and other blog elements
* Understanding the role of blog templates
Consider some amazing measurements. (I'm talking about measurements
of blogging, not the size of Donald Trump's hair.) According to some
sources, about 70 million Weblogs existed in mid-2005. One respected research
company reported that 6 percent of the U.S. population had created a Weblog
and that 16 percent of the population read blogs. Another study in the
summer of 2005 put the number of blog readers somewhat lower, but discovered
something amazing about those people who did read blogs: about two-thirds
of them didn't know what a blog was.
Ever since the lead-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Weblogs have
been in the news. Many articles reporting on the blog phenomenon take a
stab at defining them, but these halfhearted attempts don't go far in educating
the masses of people who are a bit puzzled by the whole "blog thing." Are
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