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“You can’t throw a rock without hitting a blogger”- Adapted from Todayonline

Definition of a blogger: any person who maintains a blog.
This phrase has prompted me to write about blogs. Nowadays, almost everyone who knows something about computer undestand the term blog. And most importantly, most of those netizens own at least one blog, if not many more. So what had caused this phenomenon? Blogs had started for as early as 1994 (at that time, I was just a little kid who doesn’t even know how to use a computer!) Well, according to wikipedia article on blogs, its the September 11 attacks that “created” this phenomenon. At that time, many blogs sprang up indicating their support for the US War on Terrorism and for other political stuff. And in the preceding years, many more types of blogs came about. Most importantly, its considered “hip” to have a blog, thus many youngsters like me went to create a blog.

So what do people do to differentiate their blog from the millions of blogs out there? Some people wrote about their sexual fantasies or desires, some people gave critical reviews of the news or political stuff (if you really want to talk on this topic in Singapore, please be prepared to be sued until you are a bankrupt by the government or that particular political party). As for me, I’d use the “power” of design to differentiate my blog, and that is what most bloggers does. Hence, many people went to learn about HTML codings, web designs etc (and that’s what I’d also done, 6 months ago, I knew nothing about HTML and web design). If you really want to have a look at what are good designs, you may want to go to the following blogs:Freeminding, The Inner Id, NIMS, Asceticmonk, Darice.

This post is just some stupid opinions of mine, so don’t bother much about it. If you wanna read more about the article, click on the Todayonline link and click Voices at the Today Section Headlines