Features of Blogspot

Blog is a website, created and maintained by people, with the entries of comments, descriptions of events, photos, videos or other material such as graphics. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a Blog. Information in blog is usually archived in date order, which provides an easy way to find blog entries posted on a particular date

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a link log, a site comprising a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs which comprising with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog.
Micro-Blogging is another important type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Features of Blogspot

Some of the most important features of blogspot are mentioned below:-

A blog is a personal diary
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a only place to collect and share things that you find interesting just like a personal diary— whether it's your political comment, or links to web sites you want to remember, or your day to day activity. Blog provides a way to store and share information about certain experience or event which can be access over internet anywhere.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, where as others organize it for command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands.


A Corporate Blog
As in most cases a blog can be crceated for private purposes or it can be for business purposes. Blogs are used to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

Blog Customization
Whether you are starting your blog or just think it's time to give your existing blog a facelift. Blogger's user-friendly tools are help you in customizing a design of a page to a great-looking page.

Templates — Blog templates will get you started with an attractive site right away without you having to learn any HTML, though most of the websites also allows you to edit your blog's HTML code whenever you want.

Custom colors and fonts — When you are ready to take the next step in customizing of your blog, you can further customize our templates to create a design that perfectly reflects you and your blog.

Drag-and-drop page elements — Blogging websites have a features like simple drag-and-drop system which lets you easily decide exactly where your posts, profiles, archives and other parts of your blog should live on the page.


A collection of links
You can maintain a collection of all important links to other websites or blog with some related information. This gives a better exposure and sharing of each others websites.


A collaborative space
Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts on the web. It is about connecting with the others and hearing from anyone who reads the work and cares to respond. You can control who can read and write to your blogs. By the blogging, the entire world see what you have to say!

Comments - you can let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.

Access Controls - you can decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog, an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or you can create a single blog, it’s an private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas.
Profiles you can find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Profiles, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you.

A political soapbox & A breaking-news outlet
Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, spinning news and stories.

The great impact of certain political stories gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of new. Though often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key information to public light with media having to follow their lead. More often, news blogs tend to react to material already published by the mainstream media. By the increasing the number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of depth analysis.
Lately, the role of blogs became in the fields of political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war and other issues as a news source.


Photo Sharing
Sometimes you just want to share a photo. You can also upload photos in the Blog. It’s very simple clicks to upload a photo from your computer to the blog. If the photo which you like to put on your blog is already on the web then you can just use the URLs to your photo to upload into the blog. You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog.
Some blogging websites lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you are on the go. It is easily to possible to claim your mobile blog or switch your posts to another blog.