Blogs

One of the most obvious and widespread examples of live content on the Internet are weblogs, commonly known as blogs, which are websites designed specifically to make it very easy and convenient for anyone with good ideas, Internet access, and a basic knowledge of computers to post their thoughts, ideas, or even artistic creations online in a matter of a few minutes.

The blog, which started out as a personal online diary in the second half of the 1990s, has become the epitome of live online content: it is the most efficient and convenient way of spreading news and ideas, of updating your friends about significant (or even insignificant) events and happenings in your life, covering important social events, etc. Practically speaking, the potential variety of blogs is almost infinite–there can be blogs as many and as diverse as there are people.

Another feature of blog content that makes it “live” is that it isn’t static–rather, it can often be syndicated and published on other blogs and websites, people comment on blog entries, blogs have links to each other, and the overall community of bloggers–the so-called Blogosphere–operates in an analogous way to a living organism (or, at the very least, it is a highly fluid and dynamic non-hierarchical social entity).

Today, blogs are not restricted to text-based content only; there are many photoblogs and videoblogs out there, and new specialized content management systems allow users to share multimedia content as easily as they can share text.