The NOVICE MASTER

What is your contribution to the world wide web?

The world wide web is a network of millions of computers, each containing information accessible through the internet. The information is vast and almost limitless because there is very little restriction to who contributes to the web. As long as one has the tiniest knowledge about writing and publishing, he/she can rightfully put up some piece of useful text, photos, music or videos.

Any piece of information you publish on the web is of great importance to at least a few thousand users, even if it is just your diary you are publishing online. People do learn from other people just by following up their daily activities or reading their biography. To publish online, however, one should be ready to put up something that is not against basic ethical principles. Why contribute to hate, racism.

Most people do not contribute to the world wide web because they either don’t have the means or they don’t know how. In developing countries, the means is always the case. There are many individuals without computers connected to the internet. In some more developed countries where almost everyone is connected to the internet, there is still a great deal of people who do not know what to publish or where to publish.

Traditionally, in the past, publishing to the internet meant having your own personal site. Not everyone would like to go through the hassle of paying for and maintaining a web space. Even if the time and money is not a problem, expertise might be. Some people would still find it difficult publishing information on a website that has been built for them. Of course, this requires knowledge in html.

Later on, article directories made things easier for all. Most people would just write what they want to publish and submit to an article directory. If the writing is in accordance with their guidelines, it is published. The main problem with article directories is that they are very selective on what is published. This is both good and bad news. “Selective” doesn’t mean what they don’t take is bad. At times, not just any god piece of writing is necessary.

The most recent method of contributing to the web, that was introduced in the late 90s is blogging. With blogging, one is free to express him/herself as much as possible. One can publish at any time and also publish almost anything as far as it sticks to modern ethical rules (no hate, porn or illegal stuff).

With blogging, you control what you publish, and format it to suit your own taste. Blogging can be fun and rewarding. You get to meet like and unlike minded individuals, make friends, exchange ideas, and in some cases, make a few dollars a month.

It is almost a year now since I started blogging. In October 2007, I was marveled that I could “own” my own personal space on the web and publish my stories to. Although I never new exactly what I was doing till early this year, I gradually developed interest in blogging and didn’t relent my efforts to learn how to blog better. I ran a couple of blogs on blogspot and at the same time, i was contributing articles to blogging communities. I later on abandoned all the stuff I was doing and started all over. During my blogging lessons, I learned a great deal of html, css, cpanel, ftp, databases, etc and could courageously start experimenting stuff on wordpress.

I had a very hard time learning how to blog because I didn’t know exactly where to turn to for knowledge. It is very certain that there are numerous blogs in the blogosphere that are dedicated to helping newbies with their blogging endeavors. AZ Blogging, owned and maintained by my humble self, is one of them.

I took my time on AZ Blogging to make sure a newbie doesn’t find blogging some sort of rocket science. What is A Blog? AZ Blogging answers that. If you have never been into blogging or want to know more about blogging, checking out the posts on the sitemap can be of great help.

Blogging is one big revolution on the web. Don’t miss it!

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