Below I’ll introduce you to what a blog really is and later on the second part of this topic, I’ll teach you how to create one for free!

Series
This is the first part of our How to start blogging series.
Part 2 – How to create your very own free blog with Wordpress – Start blogging within 5 minutes of reading this simple and easy to follow tutorial.

Why learn about a blog? They are popping everywhere on the internet and some of the top sites now are considered to be blogs. Did you know that? Many avid readers have never been exposed to a blog before and have been interested in this new experience. That’s why here at Talk Binary we want to educate you about them and show you how to make one in the process for those who want to share their wealth of knowledge without really knowing anything about web design! You really don’t need to know anything to start a blog! I’ll show you how.

What is a blog anyway?

A blog, short for web blog, is a website maintained by a “blogger” who wishes to share his experiences, hobbies, interests, passions and other information with individuals interested in the topic of the blogger’s choice. A blog stands out from a website as it allows the blogger to easily post entries on his/her subject which in return can be commented by the visitors to maintain a conversation providing feedback, and possibly more information on the related topic. In other words, a blog is something anyone can express their interests, passions, or hobbies. It can be related to an online diary. (Making a search on Google for blog brings up around 2.6 billion results!) – Source

Below are a variety of different blogs that I regularly read using my Google RSS reader. Descriptions after the break!

So what can a blog be?

About anything really. Many people have blogs for educational, personal, monetary, professional, and many more other reasons. Talk Binary is trying to be a blog about teaching you how to program while giving you tech reviews, software, and hardware information. Why? Because we love to write about the things we love.

So you can too start your own free blog! How? It’s simple and its free! I’ll post this on the next post in this series.

So who keeps up with these blogs anyways?

Many of these blogs are merely a team of “bloggers” who mainly want to share their knowledge with you! They can be teenagers, adults, seniors, and many other type of people! Some people simply love putting in some time every now and then and try to start a community with their hobby of interest by making a blog to attract readers with the same interest.

How popular are these blogs??

Some of these have up to 15,000 unique visitors per day! (15k x 30 days in a month = one heck of a lot of visitors per month!) Others even have over 20,000 RSS subscribers! In other words, thats one really big audience!

How many blogs do I keep up with?

You really don’t want to know! I use Google Reader to manage all my feeds. About 30-45 of them? So instead of visiting about 45 sites per day, I simply navigate through all the posts fed through to me using Google Reader! I’ll explain how to use Google Reader in a next post as well. And no, I don’t spend hours on it, merely a couple of minutes skimming to find what I really want. ( I receive up to 100 posts a day, but by simply looking at topics I end up reading about 6-7 completely. ) I subscribe to Gaming, Technology, LifeStyle, News, and a lot of other type of blogs. I like to receive a little of everything.

What blogs do you regularly visit?

Go ahead! Tell us about it! It’s all about learning about sites you visit and think are worthwhile! Maybe people can learn of new sites.

Stay tuned for the next part!

For those who wish, I’ll be showing you how easy it is to start a blog!