A blog is a website that is usually maintained by an individual. The website consists of regular entries of commentary, material including graphics, videos and descriptions of events. In this article, we discuss different types of blogs.
Personal blogs
Personal blog, as the name suggests, is an online diary or regular entries of commentary by an individual. It is the most common type of blogs. The posts in a personal blog are just a way to communicate the personal views of the blogger.

Corporate blogs
Blogs that are created for business purposes are called as corporate blogs. Such blogs are used internally, (used as a strong communication tool within the organization) as well as externally, (for marketing purposes).

Media Blogs
Blog can be subdivided into various categories namely “vlog” (blog comprising videos), “sketchblog” (blog comprising portfolio of sketches), “photoblog” (blog comprising photos) and “linklog” (blog containing links of other websites). Other types of blogs include “tumblelogs” with shorter posts and mixed media types and “artlog” which enables the user to share and publish art in the format of a blog.

Gadget Type
 A gadget blog, as the name suggests, is a blog that is written with a particular gadget. If a blog is written by a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA, it is called as “moblog”.

Topic Type
Topic type blog focuses on a particular subject. There are political blogs, travel blogs, project blogs, education blogs, classical music blogs, legal blogs, fashion blogs etc. There exist some “splog” blogs sites that are used for illegal purpose of spamming.

Internet has proven to be the best venue for virtual convergence. Apart from online shopping, business transactions, chatting, banking etc., social networking has gained popularity across the globe. It is evident from the popular social networking sites such as Orkut, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook etc. that social networking in luring online users. These facilitate real time and online interaction between friends and acquaintances in every corner of the globe.

When you are using these services, it becomes necessary to upload your pictures. Though it is not mandatory, but it helps people and friends to identify you easily. If you have difficulty in uploading pictures online, we are here to help you with the basic procedures to upload your picture easily.

• First of all, scan the required photograph and save it as a file in your hardware.
• When you log in to any of the social networking sites, click on the “upload picture” option found on the Web page. A dialog box will pop up.
• Next, select the “browse” and search the picture file which you want to upload from the hard drive of your computer.
• Click “open”. A prompt will appear for confirmation in order to complete uploading process. Click on it and get the transaction done.
• Repeat the above steps to upload other photos.

Most of the social networking sites have their own quality check processes. They constantly monitor the photos posted by their members. There are many cases in which the account gets suspended because of the upload of inappropriate or indecent pictures. So when you upload the photos on such sites, make sure that they are clean, don’t loose their decency and are appropriate to be posted on Web.