Blogging for Beginners - Many blogs exist...
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Many blogs exist as channels for letting other people know what the individual blogger is doing on the Web. Let's say the blogger is an avid fan of sports in space (hey! Maybe not right now but soon, huh?). They cruise the Web looking for interesting things about sports in space and when they find something, *Ping*, it appears in the blog. So, be sure the place you choose to host your blog makes it easy to insert a link to another place on the Web. If you start blogging in one place and find out it's a real drag figuring out how to easily link to other sites, drop that blog--let it die--and go where you can do it without hardly thinking about it. If you've never read a blog, you may wonder why I'm stressing this point. Go forth and read some blogs! You'll quickly see why this feature is so important in the World Wide Web...
Another important feature is called Comments. This usually appears right at the bottom of each post to the blog as a link that says, duh, comments... Why is this important? Well, imagine that you're visiting someone else's blog. They've just said something that you really like or really don't like. What do you want to do? Comment on what they said. Comments are one of the features of blogs that make people want to come back. Over time, good bloggers (and I don't mean just the ones with fancy words or stunning arguments) gather a group of regular readers who love to comment on the posts. This, in turn, gives the blogger ideas about what to put in (or, keep out of) the blog. They call it interactivity and it can become one of the very best things about blogging!
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