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Picture This: Your Own PhotoBlog - A personal photo blog directory

© Karin Rex

There's little doubt in my mind that you've heard the word blog before. But just in case you've only recently arrived on this planet, the word "blog" is an amalgamation of the words web and log. This one-syllable word seems to have taken the world by storm over the past year. According to the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, a blog (also referred to as a weblog):

...is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order).

Blogs range in scope from individual diaries to arms of political campaigns, media programs, and corporations. They range in scale from the writings of one occasional author, to the collaboration of a large community of writers. Many weblogs enable visitors to leave public comments, which can lead to a community of readers centered around the blog; others are non-interactive. The totality of weblogs or blog-related websites is often called the blogosphere. When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.

The format of weblogs varies, from simple bullet lists of hyperlinks, to article summaries or complete articles with user-provided comments and ratings. Individual weblog entries are almost always date and time-stamped, with the newest post at the top of the page, and reader comments often appearing below it.

The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com reported that there were over 60 million blogs worldwide as of May, 2005. That's a lot of words! However, not all blogs focus on words -- some blogs consist entirely of photographs. To get an idea of what a photoblog can consist of, check out this very small sampling of photoblogs from all over the world:

Cool PhotoBlogs to Visit

• Orbit, By John Perkinson
  http://orbit1.com/main.aspx
• Every Picture Tells a Story by TV Smith
  http://www.mycen.com.my/picturestory/
• Preetamrai
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/preetamrai
• Joe's NYC
  http://joesnyc.streetnine.com/
• A Walk through Durham Township, PA, by Kathleen Connally
  http://www.durhamtownship.com/
• Making Happy: One Human Life
  http://www.makinghappy.com/index.php
• Horizonte, by Andrei Gurgel
  http://www.andreigurgel.com.br/horizonte/

What's especially nice about photoblogs is that there is no language barrier. A picture really is worth a thousand words -- in any language!

Want In?
If you would like to try creating your own photoblog, but you don't have your own website, there are many sites that will host your blog for you -- and many of them are free. A sampling of sites is listed below. (If you know of others, feel free to post them on our Discussion Board.)

Sites that Host PhotoBlogs

• Photoblogs.org (this is a great general resource on the topic!)
  

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