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#Digital Literacy
Let’s CatCh Up
Name any three modes of payment.
a. _________________________________________________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________________________________________________
i + BLOGGING
Blog is a short form of WEBLOG, which refers to a website where new information about any topic
is updated regularly. The latest posts appear first. The term Weblog was coined by an American
blogger named Jorn Barger in 1997. It is like a journal where you write about your life and thoughts.
It is more like a personal diary which is shared online publicly. The text is conversational in style.
Blogging is the act of writing and maintaining a blog, which includes photography and other
media that are self-published online. Readers of blog can also comment. When more readers
comment, the blog becomes more popular. This made blogging a new type of online business
venture. It can also be used for marketing a business or product. Blogs are popular because they
are free, easy to access and you can also contribute by commenting on the content.
A blogger is a person who owns a blog and keeps it updated by posting new posts, experiences,
opinions, stories, news, perspective, etc. Anyone can become a blogger. You just need to create
a blog account and update it regularly, either part time or full time or simply as a hobby.
Info Byte
The term "blog" was given by Peter Merholz in 1999 when he rearranged the words “Web
log” to read as “We Blog”. Dave Winer’s Scripting News is one of the oldest and the largest
running blog in present days.
Some of the popular websites which allow us to create blogs are Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr,
etc. Let us learn how to create a blog on the the Blogger website.
To create a blog of the Blogger website, follow the given steps:
1 Open the www.blogger.com website.
2 Click on the CREATE
YOUR BLOG button.
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