Blogging in the 21st century

The turn of the 21st century brought about a lot of changes, including changes in blogging. Technology has given internet users a whole new way to write and present their blogs. Instead of all text with a few images thrown in to make it a little more interesting you can now add audio to your blogs.

To make it even more interesting put in a short video to intrigue your visitors. Did you know that you can even update your blog when you are on the go if you like? All you have to do is use a PDA or a mobile phone and you can connect and update anytime, anywhere you please, this is called mobile blogs.

Technology has certainly changed the way blogging works. There are no longer very many limitations holding the blogger back. So what are some of these different types of blogs that are now available today and what do they mean? Basically, there are two common types of blogs and each has different sub-genres included within it. Most blogs are either basic blogs or expository blogs.

Basic blogs include links to something interesting and a comment or two.

Expository blogs focus mainly on writing.

There are several other blogs that fall under these two main broad categories. Some of these include:

• Group – A variant of the same basic blog but with multiple authors
• Topic- blogs based on a specific topics (such as politics, news, religion, education, etc.)
• Journals – Diaries; usually expository and of interest to the writer, family and friends
• Photo- As the name suggests, this is a graphic heavy blog with photos etc.
• Linkblog- Similar to the regular basic blog but with only links and without commentary
• Public relations- blogs geared towards public relations, advertising, etc
• Other- There are many other types and categories of blogs that can fall in this line as well.

There are so many different things that blogs are used for these days.

So let's get down to blogging