Blogging culture

The popularity of blogs in the recent times is what the popularity of websites was in the late 90s, especially during the dot.com boom. At its height, websites such as geocities, xoom, etc provided free space. They depended only on advertising and had no other revenue stream (read revenue model.) Some went under after the bubble burst and some were acquired by sites that had deep pockets and started offering premium services in addition and restricting free usage. A host of other activities developed around it, like free counters, free scripts, free images, "bullets", and whatnot. Now, we have free blogging sites, free counters that offer even more information, free image hosting sites, free templates, and whatnot! While the previous 'websites' had some gaudy stuff like animated gifs, garish colours and unreadable text, blogs are much more presentable primarily because the user cannot edit the pages much. The same cannot be said about the 'content', though.




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