Blogging has become a very specialized frame of communication. Beside email and social networking, blogging has found a steady place for itself. Blog is contraction of web log. It is completely an information based site that is published on World Wide Web. Blogging can be used for detailed discussion on a serious topic as well as entertaining too. Anyone can write his or her own blog or blog for a product, commodity or services. Many write stories in blog. Many write autobiography in blog.

Blogging has a place or opportunity to make the leave with his valuable comments. Comments make the blog interactive. Blogging has shaped the interesting frame of communication all over the world. It has taken the communication and sharing beyond boundaries or in the bigger cyber space.

Initially blog was a personal operational sharing system. One blog belongs to one author. Except he there is no one who can write a single word in the content section. Sometimes a small group can get hold of blog. But that was just like common user concept. In the year of 2009, cyber space or blogging system gets to know about MAB or multi author blog. Suppose there is a registered site of blogging. There are categories divided about the blog subjects. Let us take any criteria under consideration. We will find thousands of blogs written by multiple numbers of people those who have idea about that subject. Even if we have a good enough knowledge on that we can write a blog there.

Initially a detailed knowledge about HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) was needed to publish content in internet. The development of content management system had given the blogging a new age and brought it in the hand of common. Without any knowledge of cliché technicality and language coding anyone can upload any content in the internet blogging in the simple textual format. This has gained popularity in the heart of common.

Blogging can be considered as a form of social networking. Bloggers do not only post blog content but also have a good watch on the comments given by the readers. If they have any question, the blogger tries to answer it at his or her level best. The target group he or she is writing if they have any question regarding or against the blog, the blogger must clarify and bound to answer them. Many blogging sites do not allow people to comment. But most the blogging sites do. This is a platform where the bloggers try to build and develop relation with the readers and other bloggers.

Blogs are basically text based though there are different forms of blogs. There are art related blog called art blog. There are blogs contain every information with photographs, a photographs based blog, called photo blog. Likewise there are blogs based on video called video blogs or vlogs. Music related and based blogs are very popular called MP3 blogs. There is another interesting thing, a blog based on audio, any kind of audio called Podcast.

Blog can be described as an informational or discussion site which is mostly published in the Internet. It usually comprises of separate and distinct posts. The major characteristic of a blog is that it is displayed in a chronological and reversed order. However in the year 2009 the blogs were generally the task of a single person or often a small group. Occasionally it covered a single subject.

Most recently the development of multi author blogs (MABs) began, along with many entries. Those entries were written by huge numbers of authors and also edited in a professional manner. The increasing quantities of the traffic of blogging were accounted by interest groups and institutions, think tanks, universities, other media outlets and MABs from newspapers. The uprising of Twitter and other kinds of “micro blogging systems” assists in the integration of the MABs. The single author blogs were usually integrated in to the societal new streams. Blog can be also utilized as a verb, denoting to add content to it and maintain it.

The growth and emergence of the blogs began in the late 1990s, coinciding with the coming in to existence of web publishing tools. These tools further made the posting of the content easier by the non-technical users. In the earlier times, FTP and HTML was needed for publishing content in the Internet. A vast majority of people are interactive by the process of blogging, permitting many visitors to give their comments. Plenty of messages could be exchanged with each other with the GUI widgets on those blogs. However this kind of interactivity differentiates blogs with other static websites.

In a broader sense, a major form of social networking is blogging. However the bloggers not only create content for posting their blogs but also creating social relations. These social relations are usually made with the respective readers and other bloggers. Daring Fireball is a kind of high-readership blog which does not permits any comments.
Several blogs offer commentary on specific subjects. The more utilities of blogs are like an online brand advertising of a specific company or individual; or like a personal online diary. However a unique blog adds content, pictures and links to Web pages, other blogs and other media related mediums. It is an interactive format which has been produced by the ability of the readers to leave their opinions.

Interactive format further results as a vital contribution to the uprising of other blogs. Sufficient amounts of blogs are primarily textual. However certain focus on audio (podcasts), music (MP3 blogs), videos (video blogs or “vlogs”), art (art blogs) and photographs (photo blogs).

Another kind of blogging is micro blogging which consists of precise posts. Blogs are utilized as instructional resources in the field of education, referred as edu-blogs. As regarding the critics, Blogger is the most famous blogging service till date. Blogs is a powerful tool for communication for the news services, consultants and politicians. The prospects of the websites are increased by blogging, attracting many viewers to it.