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Google and Modern Geography

It is the basic need of man to travel. There was a huge extension in travelling with the growth in population. In every era anybody who was well aware of paths and ways was given more importance because caravan did travel through see, and land under his guidance. A person who is aware of the directions and paths is considered as guide. Man has pondered a lot in making this system easier and convenient. In the beginning, the sun, the moon and the stars were observed to find the direction during travelling. With the passage of time a lot of maps and tools like compass were made. With evolution of science, man devised better tools and instruments in the field of Geography and Cartography. Some geographical and basic information about Geography and Cartography is given here.

Today there are latest and useful navigation system is planted in the modern means of travelling like aeroplanes and cars. With the help of which, information about destination and track of destination can be found easily. There is a wonderful invention of smart phone which not only is used for communication but also has the function of a compass, maps and GPS. In this modern device not only directions, distances information but also real pictures of every place and corner of the earth, are available. Within a few minutes man can find any destination with the help of maps.

Smart phones and some other devices have compass, GPS and navigation system. Usually direction is found with compass but if the device does not have compass hardware, direction can be found with GPS while travelling. GPS does connect to four satellites at a time and tells the altitude and longitude of a place. Besides it geographical information and maps are installed already or they are retrieved via internet from various companies.

Nowadays various companies or departments provide this geographical information without any cost like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Wikimapia etc. In fact all are excellent but Google has dominated this realm also by the softwares like Google earth and Google maps. As the names tell the story that Google Maps is about mapping and the Google Earth is about geography in which snaps of the earth are taken by satellite in the real shape of a globe and provides many geographical information.

Various services of social media such as youtube or others earned their name with the cooperation of common people i.e. lay men gave a great hand in promoting these services and these services became a huge company, similarly common people contributed a lot in the development of the Google Earth and Google Maps. Initially Google made a rough sketch of the earth in which there were the maps of several countries and their cities and roads. Later on Google introduced such services that anyone can take part in providing information e.g. Google Map Maker, Panoramio and Sketch-up. A common internet user can draw any map and mark any place with the help of Google Map Maker; and picture of any place can be uploaded by Panoramio and a 3D map can be designed of any building with the help of Sketch-up. The information gained with the help of Google Map Maker, Sketch Up and Panoramio is checked by Moderators of Google and this information is included in Google Maps and Google Earth if this information is found correct. All over the world people took great part in this proceeding of making maps and uploading pictures. There is a great contribution of the common people and the cartographers in this latest Google Earth and Google Maps. Nowadays most of the places are traced and marked in these softwares. Map Makers from all over the world took part in improving Google Maps/Earth. Pakistani Map Makers also took great part in this field, to get the detail of Pakistani Map Makers follow this link.

Nowadays Google Earth/Maps are so prominent to get geographical information. These softwares are available for all computer operating systems as well as many smart phones. Even navigation system of cars also gets information from Google Earth/Maps. Different machines like computer and mobile provide Google Earth/Maps service due to installed hardwares i.e. if a device has the hardware of compass or GPS, these devices can provide directions otherwise not. Here is a glimpse of some facilities of Google Earth/Maps.

Google Maps is in fact a complete program of Maps with the help of which we can find a place, distance from one place to other, its path and required time and various maps. Devices like smart phone have the facility of GPS, this program gets information from the satellite and tell us about the required place and direction while travelling. If we have already informed Google Maps, it does guide us during travelling place by place, turn right or left etc. Besides it gives update about the traffic of the roads. In Google Maps anyone can save his favorite destinations so that he may get instant information instead of searching required place. It would be kept in mind that in Google Earth/Maps the path, trace of required destination is different from the path made in Google Map Maker. Because whatever we make in Google Map Maker, Google incorporates this information in software and shares it with others but what information is given in Google Earth/Maps, this information is only visible to its own maker or those persons whom the maker allows to share.

Google Earth is wonderful software about Geography and maps. Google Earth has all the facilities of Google Maps and some other facilities. In Google Earth real pictures of the earth have been taken by the satellite and a globe is framed like real earth. In earlier stages we twirl the globe to trace a place, but Google Earth is much advance than that. We can see the place by any angle and mountains are same as original in it. We can find the altitude from sea level of any place and latitude of the place. We can also find the day or night time of a place. The information of streets that are included in Google Earth can be found by Street Viewer like someone is walking himself in these streets. Maps made by Map Maker, uploaded picture of a place by Panoramio and buildings made by Sketch-up can also be seen in Google Erath. Besides it weather, the information about a place provided by international organizations can also be seen in Google Earth. Even solar system, moon and Mars also can be observed by Google Earth.

When we zoom in a place in Google Earth, there would appear different signs of different kinds. Then we can click the desired information tag about which we need information. It gives so much information about a specific point that it is very hard to see the map, when these signs of different kinds appear. That’s why we do not select all the layers of information during Google Earth installation. Later on different layers can be selected or removed according to our need.

People of all disciplines are using Google Earth/Maps in modern times but especially travelers, tourists and students of geography are using it mainly. Some persons are very fond of maps and geography; Google Earth is a blessing for such eager people. Now it is time when people do not tell the path of required place but they trace the place in Google Earth and send this file via email to the stranger for guidance. When the stranger opens this file in Google Earth or gives code in Google Maps, he finds the place conveniently and this file or code makes him reach this particular place. Every corner of the world has been traced and nowadays the earth is searched or traced with the eye of Google.

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Pakistani Google Map Makers

There is a huge contribution of the customers in the modern standard of Google Maps/Earth because most of the pictures, roads and different places are tagged by the users themselves. In Google Mapping, every country has participated a lot and Pakistani map makers (cartographers) also contributed in this field.

Many Pakistani people did this job but some volunteers did such effort that the Google awarded them with the biggest title (Advocate) of Google Map Maker. Pakistani Volunteers who got “Advocate” title are Jabran Rafique a web developer from a small village of Gujranwala, Omer Sheikh from Lahore, Usman Latif an internet marketing expert and a software developer Faraz Ahmad from Daska. Among them it is Usman Latif who is present in Pakistan and others are out of Pakistan, this thing made him prominent from the others. Another person Abdul Rehman who is the Saudi advocate of Map Maker but he is working conscientiously in Pakistani mapping.

There is a long list of other Google Map Makers and ‘Regional Expert Reviewer’ in this regard. Owing to these map makers Google Maps has reached such position that a lay man can get information of every inch and corner at his doorstep. Google Map Makers did such precious efforts that Pak army during the flood in 2010 used these Google Maps and appreciated such volunteers in a press release. Pakistani Map Makers have a distinctive position in the world and in 2009 they got first position. In Pakistan Badar Khushnood is the country consultant of Google, who is always in contact with people regarding all activities of Google.

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Historical information about Geography and Cartography

Man has been researching the directions, determining and identification of paths and researching construction of the earth since man has started traveling. It can’t be denied that man is busy in devising better navigation system since beginning. The study of the earth, its construction, structure and study of its inhabitants is called geography while mapping of the earth is called cartography. With the passage of time many units and tools were framed for geography and cartography. Modern cartography is, to great extent, conjoined with geography; cartography provides the basics of many geographical matters. Modern man has found primitive maps which proves that cartography is an ancient branch of knowledge.

Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C) a Greek mathematician and geographer did first research about the earth. He devised some rules about mapping and gave information with the help of different methods about measurement of the earth. These rules are still being used in modern times. Definitely this process was being continued by the others. Then the Abbasid caliph Haroon Ul Raheed’s son Mamoon Ul Rasheed got preceded the job of cartography. But in 1017, a brilliant Muslim scientist Al-Biruni did more exact measurement than his predecessors. His assumed radius of the earth was 6335 Km. Modern research has proved that he was right with the difference of 36 km.

First compass for the direction was invented in China between the 2nd century B.C. and 1st century A.D. Western Europe started using the compass between 1187 and 1202, and in Persia in 1232.

The man used to determine directions and paths with the help of stars in the past but now he has a latest and modern geographical navigation system. Every place is marked on the earth now with the help of longitude and latitude. In modern system, satellites are being used to identify places. The most famous satellite system is GPS (Global Positioning System) with the help of which we can get information about any specific place, its altitude to sea level, the speed and direction during traveling. By combining information got from GPS with mapping, there is a complete system having directions and mapping information. In 1973 American defense department made GPS system but it properly worked in 1995 and it is being refined day by day. Europe Union, China, Russia and India are also trying to make their own such GPS system.

Many other companies besides NASA are now providing free information about geography and mapping, the most famous is Google. Google has made two programs (Google Earth and Google Maps) for a common man. The foundation of Google Earth was not laid by the Google; it was first laid by a company “Keyhole” funded by CIA and the initial name was Earth Viewer. In October 2004 Google purchased Keyhole company along with another mapping company. Afterwards in February 2005 Google started Map service. In June 2005 Google made some amendments in the software Earth Viewer and launched a new software Google Earth.

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Blogosphere – A Sovereign Kingdom of Internet

It is often said that human is a social animal; he can’t live alone and he keeps establishing his contact with society with various ways. He always remains busy in exploring information and keeps progressing. He wants to speak, listen and likes to exchange his information with others. Man always likes to be in contact with the other fellow beings because social contact is the basic need of the man. This will of social contact with others, was one of the major reasons of inventing and discovering different kind of source of communication and transportation with the passage of time. Wherever he reached, he made a world of contacts and communication.

This is the basic need behind the invention of radio and telephone, through which man wants to exchange the information and to keep the contact. Man has created a world of connections and communication with the invention of internet, in the form of various online forums and chat groups where people start to begin banter and chat. It was the initial stage of the social media and the people started to write their personal experiences, analysis, views and chit chat of daily routine life in the form of personal diary, on the websites and forums. These diaries were the initial form of the blog of today. Blog is one of the types of social media. With the passage of time blog kept changing its form and shape. Now blog is a power and force which is influencing the world and laying the foundation of a new free world. Today, bloggers are said to be think tank of the modern world. Although blog has crossed many steps of development yet there is no clear definition of blog.

What is Blog?

If we keep the view of initial use of word blog as websites, in the beginning and the history, the definition of the term blog is “That site or part of a site in which a blogger can publish his personal analysis, observations, comments and opinions etc with total liberty” in simple words such website or a part of website in which such material can be published, which gives some information about the blogger, and his thinking without any restraint. Blog is like a personal diary or it may be called personal journalism which only depends upon the analysis of the blogger. On the basis of technique and material there are many kinds of blog like audio blog and video blog etc with respect to technique; and the blogs of technology, politics, recreation, tourism and literary etc are the mentionable blogs with respect to the category of material.

In this era of internet if you would like to convey your thoughts and ideas to the others, blog is the best choice. Blog is like a personal diary but this personal diary does not remain personal but it is shared with people in the form of an open book which people write for the sake of expressing their thoughts, interest and to exchange their views. Poetry, pictures, videos, thoughts and feelings can be shared on the blog like a personal diary. People of having different views write in a different style e.g. doctor’s write about medical, technology specialist on technology, victims of circumstances narrate their grievous condition, intellectuals on literature etc. Besides it photographer shares photos, and video addicted shares videos even man from every field of life writes and shares his concerning experience and knowledge. Some people want to write on more topics and share different aspects. In fact Blog is the reflection of the personality of the blogger. For more details about what is blog and blog “word” read “Beginning and Brief History of Blogging”.

Importance, Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogging

Now-a-days blogging is very famous all over the world. This fact can be assessed with the data of previous years of the websites like technorati.com that gives the statistical figure about blogging that the strength of bloggers recently is more than 300 millions, and it is till increasing. The age of the bloggers is mostly from 25 to 44 years. More than 3.3 millions blog posts are published daily. Now 39% people of total population of the whole world is using internet; and 77% of total internet users reads or visits blogs for various needs and reasons.

Now a new world is developing due to blogging. Today Blog is the name of expressing the ideas with liberty, for a lay man. There are various examples when the articles of a writer are restrained to publish by the institution due to its policy and the writer has turned to blogging to express his feelings with liberty. Blog is the easy and modern way of expressing national and personal views. There is no obstruction from the government, from any institution in the form of policy, or no religious or social hurdle in writing a blog. Whenever government banishes a website of blogging, then bloggers start to expresses their feeling on other platforms e.g. in February 2006 Pakistan government banned Blogspot, a site that provides the facility of creating free blog, instead of banishing a particular URL. Many bloggers got influenced by this step but they did not lose heart and reached a new platform; many shifted to their personal blogs instead of free service. For more details about Pakistani bloggers and Pakistani blogging history read “Blogosphere of Pakistan”.

If we discuss the negative points of blogging, there are sure chances of creating many problems because of carelessness. Blogosphere is not a proper institution where a researcher has to discuss with a researcher while a researcher can have an illiterate man for discussion. A PhD doctor might have to perform the function of a veterinary doctor. If on one side the blogger is free to write, on the other hand the reader is also free to read any kind of writing. Some people take unfair advantage of the liberty of expression on Blogosphere. Some bloggers and readers perform as the wet blanket during the banter e.g. only a single sentence of conspiracy shatters the whole long research of a researcher and the blogger spends many days to reject or clear that harsh sentence of the critic. Some anonymous people appear and do not refrain from abusing and immoral activities. Some people join blogosphere for the sake of especial agenda and try to create confusions with various conspiracy theories and rumors. Here such stories are plotted in which “Laila” is married to “Majnoo” and such predictions are made of birth of their child i.e. they build castle in the air.Now many vital agencies and institutions get stimulation and trying to set the opinions of the masses by blogging after realizing the importance of Blogging.

It does not mean that blogging is all about of all this; these are some negative aspects of blogging. But advantages of blogging are more than disadvantages. No doubt many conspiracy theories have emerged in blogosphere because of multidimensional views that are presented in blogosphere but a man of average intellectual can discriminate the good and bad, right and wrong. Now blogosphere is such a platform where if a blogger plot a conspiracy theory, many other bloggers present the various other aspects of the fact and make the people clear and rational. Common man can raise his voice for his right through blog that is the best way of raising forceful voice for the masses. Some information or facts that are concealed intentionally or unintentionally from the people, by the various institutions, is now disclosed through blogging. We have a lot of such examples in the near past e.g. on the matter of conquest of moon, bloggers of science jotted down a lot of things with references and provided facilities of doing research with comfort for researchers.

After 11 September 2001, America put its stance about the incident but some American bloggers put the other aspects of this event before the masses. Now the bloggers have got such importance that they are invited in significant parties and processions. Not only bloggers are invited but the politicians and government officials have to answer the piercing questions of the bloggers in the meetings. One procession is very famous in which more than 1000 bloggers participated and Hilary Clinton had to face insult by the sharp and sarcastic questions of the bloggers.

When the international media was paving the way of justifying American attack on Afghanistan, it was blogging which appeared as the alternative of conventional media which compelled the people to think on the other aspects of the facts. Blogging played a vital role in highlighting and expressing the viewpoint and complains of the Muslim world. After American attack on Iraq, they were the bloggers who were the source of internal and secret information and circumstances of Iraq. An Iraqi Blogger Salam Abdulmunem got fame and prominence during this war. His pen name is “Salam Pax” and he is famous with the other name of Salam al-Janabi. It is often said that Salam used to jot down the blog to inform one of his Jordanian friend; afterwards his writings on the war were published in the form of a book. In 2008 in the war of Russia and Georgia, Bloggers of both the countries composed many blogs as their standpoint on the war. Because of these blogs the original circumstances and situations were disclosed to the other nations and the other big institutes, blogs make them ponder for other truths. In the previous days, the upheavals occurred in the Arab states (Arab Spring) were called “Social Media Revolution” because the bloggers on social media played key role in these revolutions.

Bloggers due to their harsh and sarcastic freedom of expression were a great cause of significant changes; and this was the cause of trials and terbulations for the bloggers who were, now and then, arrested and punished by the frightened governments. Not only in the developed countries but also in the “Arab Spring” and in the previous days, many bloggers were arrested in Egypt. Governments that crush the people with force are now in a great awe from the bloggers and restraining the bloggers with different tricks and excuses. Anyway different organizations and associations are coming into existence to solve the problems of bloggers.

Not only political changes are happened by the blogging but the blogs are also performing their different functions. Blogging made “Citizen Journalism” easier because now the bloggers are raising their voice to the authorities. Students are bringing their problems to the light besides their educational activities. People from every field of life are present in the world of blogging and sharing their information with one another. There are blogs in blogosphere from religion to science, from spirit to body, from philosophy to literature, from sports to fashion etc. there is a handsome discussion on every research and finding in the blogosphere. Here the talks prick the conscience and jolt the spirit. It is the modern academy of literature where intellectuals get training. Every kind of philosophy is discussed and every kind of topic is jotted down in blogosphere. Blogging on one side is producing new changes, on the other hand is a source of knowledge as a vast sea for the world. It is germinating the horizons of new discussion and new world.

Blogging is not only source of financial aid but some other advantages can also be earned by blogging for the blogger himself and for the others. A blogger stimulate not only the others but some stimuli happen to appear in his personality. He ponders on various aspects and gets information for related aspects; such exploration of aspects makes his thinking and information fertile and rich. It is said that thoughts and perceptions do occur in the mind; and if these perceptions emotions and feelings are not given way to exhaust, they can be the cause of various psychic complications like depression for the man. When a blogger write a blog after arranging these ideas in the mind, he remains away from such psychological problems. Thus blogging is a writing therapy; furthermore the quick response from the blog helps the blogger to understand the collective attitude of the society. By exchanging the views blogger’s social network gets strengthen and vast. Blogosphere is proving a school for the new bloggers and new creators. When a writing is criticized, then a blogger refines his article and he becomes skilful after compiling and writing the subject matter. Generally a newcomer can’t find an opportunity of writing article in the media especially print media and journalism. But now a competent person can make a mark by writing blogs and gets familiarity from the blog in the early stages of a blogger. Then the famous institutions provide opportunities of publishing articles of the bloggers who have left their mark on the world. Now in this modern era many institutions turn to blogosphere to find new writers and offer jobs to the competent people. Many people could not get fame and their due honor and respect because of unavailability of the opportunity and access to the authorities of the institutions but blogging has changed this trend. Now the jeweler himself comes to the jewel and admires its beauty and shine. For more details about earn money from blog read “Make Money from Blogging”.

Some Events for Bloggers

Bloggers themselves or the various institutions arrange parties, processions, conferences etc to organize, train, and encourage bloggers. “BarCamp” is a huge ceremony that is held in the various countries of the world in which the bloggers of conventional media and social media take part. There is no specific agenda of this party, everyone is allowed to participate and speak there. Besides it a “BlogHer Conference” is held for only women bloggers since 2005. Further “Blog Talk”, “Blog World & New Media Expo”, “International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media”, Gnomedex, New Media Expo, and SobCon etc are the prominent ceremonies and processions with this respect. Besides international level, in Pakistan bloggers conference is held for mutual interaction of all the bloggers; owing to this bloggers are getting organized and receiving much importance than the past.

If you consider that you should deliver your voice, knowledge and research to the others with the help of modern weapon of the world (internet), then the best way is to raise voice by creating blogs. Now time has come when world is selecting knowledge and blog instead of bullet. Verdict is always issued by the people and now it is up to them what they are going to choose? Knowledge or violence? Pen or sward? Blog or bullet?

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Make Money from Blogging

Bloggers not only polish their creative abilities through blogging and get jobs in the worthy institutions but also earn money at their door step by writing blogs. Some bloggers take blogging partially as their source of income and some consider blogging a full time job as source of earning their livelihood. The most famous way of earning from blog is advertisement. Nowadays Google’s “AdSense” is the most famous service through which Google receives ads from different companies and gives these ads to the websites all over the world. When someone does click on that ads, every click charges some cents and that cents are accumulated in the account of the owner of the website. At the end of the month, total amount of the cents is transferred in the account of the owner of the website. Some other companies also provide such service. There are also some other types of advertisement in which various articles of different companies are presented in the form of commercials. For more detail about “Make Money from internet” in Urdu, follow this link.

Majority of the bloggers is writer that’s why bloggers write their new book or sort out their blog’s post and publish in the form of book. Bloggers sell the soft and hard copy of that book through blog. You must keep in your mind that it is not possible to earn money in the initial stage of blog writing but it demands effort and struggle. First you have to get fame by writing good, descent, and unique writings. After prominence you obtain ads and find some other ways of earning money. It is a simple fact, if the blog is not famous and nobody visits the blog, then who will give you ad?

Actually a large number of bloggers in the world is earning a handsome amount through blogging. Some top earning blogs in the world are; the news blog “The Huffington Post” of Arianna Huffington whose monthly income is almost 2.33 million dollar. After him the earning of technology blog of Pete Cashmore “Mashable” is almost 5.5 lac dollars, the monthly income of fashion blog of Mario Lavandeira “Perez Hilton” is almost 4.5 lac dollars, and the income of technology blog of Michael Arrington “Techcrunch” earns nearly 4 lac dollars.

In this field of Blogging, Pakistani English Bloggers are also in the position of earning handsome amount. But there is no such sign of earning as far as Urdu Bloggers are concerned. It does not mean that Urdu Bloggers are not up to the mark as compared to English Bloggers but they have earned good name not only in Pakistan but also in abroad among the Urdu community because of their dauntless, sharp and unique style. World’s renowned Google AdSense has not started to give ads to Urdu websites yet, which is one of the reasons of fading of Urdu bloggers in Pakistan as far as earning is concerned. Anyway in the world a large strength of bloggers does blogging for the sake of money but in Urdu Blogosphere, bloggers is such a community which does blogging for the sake of interest and love for its language.

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Urdu Blogosphere of Pakistan

In fact when blogging became prominent in the world, it took some time to reach Pakistan but didn’t much time. It is very difficult to say something about the first blogger of Pakistan but English Blogger Tariq Mustafa and the Urdu Blogger Umair Salam are considered as foremost bloggers of Pakistan. It is said that Tariq Mustafa has started blogging since 2001 or earlier while Umair Salam has started blogging since August 2002 properly. Perhaps people might express their opinion on the internet by presenting Urdu in the form of images in those days. But Umair Salam was the first Urdu blogger who used genuine Urdu (unicode) instead of image Urdu for proper Urdu blogging.

Actually it was very difficult to write Urdu blog rather than today. But Urdu bloggers continued doing their effort for Urdu blogging and some volunteers happened to join at various forums for Urdu computing; and started to try to solve the problems related to Urdu blogging. With the passage of time people started to create their own blogs.

In January 2004 BBC Urdu started its blog. Eventually some volunteers laid foundation of an online forum “Urdu Mehfil” with mutual consent in July 2005. The main objective of this forum was to solve the problems related to Urdu blogging and for the convenience of lay man in writing Urdu on computer. Thus these volunteers found solutions of many problems by the dint of themselves. The creation of this forum was in fact a revolution in the world of Urdu blogging. New horizon of Urdu blogging opened for many people and a lot of blogs were came into existence. Now there is a vast strength of Urdu bloggers who are writing on various topics. These volunteers of Urdu Mehfil made a platform for bloggers named “Urdu Siyara” (Urdu Planet) and all the bloggers were gathered over there to present their articles on that particular platform. Thus it was very convenient for the reader to have all the fresh blogs on Urdu Siyara on a same place instead of reaching out all the blogs separately, that is called “Blogs Aggregator”. Urdu Siyara exists even today and some other Urdu blogs Aggregators are also available in which “Urdu k Sab Rang” and “Urdu Source” are the most famous.

Some websites also came into existence to solve the problems in creating Urdu Blog. Urdu blog could be created by only several clicks on these sites like “Urdu Tech” and “Wordpress PK”. Famous bloggers of today started Urdu blogging on that sites but alas! These sites could not sustain their existence due to lack of resources. Anyway the majority of the bloggers turned to WordPress and Blogspot after the ceasing of these websites. Some of them shifted to their personal websites and the volunteers kept trying to find the solutions of problems related to Urdu blogging during that period. Now this is the time when anyone can create his own Urdu blog easily and raise his voice in the society.

For more detail about Blogosphere of Pakistan in Urdu follow this link.

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Beginning and Brief History of Blogging

We can’t say ultimately about the beginning of Blog and who was the pioneer of Blog. But we have some hint about the beginning of Personal Blogging that was first introduced in 1994. It is probably assumed that an American Justin Hall was one of the first bloggers. He in 1994, started to write Blog during his college days; and Jerry Pournelle‘s name also comes in the pioneer bloggers.

Blog of that time was different in technique and appearance. Blogging of Justin and Jerry was like of personal diary and personal journalism. Blog series was started from that time but it was not called as blog at that time and Blog was not a proper word in lexicon. Actually the term “Weblog” was coined latter on 17 December 1997 by an American blogger Jorn Barger. Afterwards this term was compacted into word Blog by Peter Merholz. It happened in 1999 that Peter broke “Weblog” into “We Blog” in the sidebar of his blog as fun. Thus majority of online diary writers started to use this short form “Blog” instead of Weblog and word “Blog” got familiar from that time.

Latter on the thread of term “Blogger” appears to be linked with Pyra Lab’s “Blogger product” that was started on 23 August 1999, which is provides the service to create blogs. Further the owner of blog also known as Blogger. In 2003 renowned Google has purchased Blogger product that is now called as Blogspot. Earlier there appeared some other services for the sake of Blog creating e.g. Open Diary, SlashDot, Movable Type and famous WordPress. Now-a-days the process of writing a blog is called Blogging. The world of blogs and their interconnections is called Blogosphere. In fact Brad L. Graham coined this term on 10 September 1999 in a funny manner that is used now-a-days. This Blogosphere is now called as “Blogistan” in Urdu language.

As a matter of fact blogging has been started but after the incident of 11 September 2001 it flourished by leaps and bounds. Bloggers started to express their feelings on every significant event and this series is still continue.

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Suggestion for Choosing Blog Service

Here is some discussion about different blogging services and some suggestions, where you should make blog.

Different Blogging Services to create Urdu Blog

•    Free Service
•    Personal Domain Name and Hosting
•    Personal Domain Name and Blogspot.com

To Make Urdu Blog on Free Service

Some companies provide free service to create Blog, like Google’s (blogspot.com). Blogger and Blogspot are the names of a single service. Most probably www.blogspot.com site stands first for free blog service and www.wordpress.com of WordPress organization comes second. Besides these two there are many other sites that provide free service for blogging but these two are the most prominent. Because of some facilities Blogspot is comparatively better than WordPress, and the most convenient way of creating one’s own blog.

To Make Urdu Blog on Personal Domain Name and Hosting

Address of website i.e. domain name and hosting are same as the address of a house. Domain name is “address” and hosting is “house”. When someone is willing to go one’s house, he gets address first of all, and this address leads man to the required house. Similarly, when someone writes Domain name in the web browser, this Domain name leads him to that particular house (hosting). Hosting is the main place which has the matter of the website.
In this method you buy the domain of your own name like I have bought mbilalm.com then you have to purchase webhosting. It is same as to make other websites. After getting domain name and hosting you install WordPress, then blog is ready. WordPress organization provides you “wordpress CMS” free of cost to create blog on your personal hosting.

CMS stands for “Content management system”. This CMS is the most renowned CMS as far as blogging is concerned. You can call it web software that is installed on website. And after some slight changes your website is ready. Keep in mind WordPress provides facility of creating your own blog on www.wordpress.com and provides CMS to make blog on personal domain and hosting. Name of this CMS is WORDPRESS. Keep in mind ‘Wordpress CMS’ and ‘Wordpress.com’ are two different things. Often people do not be able to distinguish the difference between these two because of resembling name.

To Make Blog with Personal Domain and Hosting on Blogspot.com

In this method, only Domain name is to purchase and Hosting of Google’s Blogspot is used. Let suppose if I have to use the hosting of Blogspot for my own domain (mbilalm.com), then I have to do some changes in the control panel of my domain name e.g. I have to give the name of hosting server of Blogspot in A-records and CNAME. Similarly I have to include Custom Domain in the settings after creating Blog on Blogspot. In fact through this process Domain is connected to Hosting and Hosting is connected to Domain. After this Blog is controlled via Blogspot, while Blog opens with personal domain i.e. domain name appears in the browser but blogspot is running on the back end.

My Suggestion for choosing Blog Service

•    If you are not a technical person and don’t have technical information about websites, then you should prefer Blogspot to create blog and find a suitable Urdu template and upload it.

•    If you have a little information about websites, then purchase your own personal domain and use hosting of Blogspot.

•    If you have enough information about website, then buy the domain name and hosting and create your own blog.

•    If you are not well informed with technical information about website but have interest in personal domain, then spend money and ask a web designer to set your blog up. After it, take care of your blog yourself. If you are not willing to take care of your blog yourself, then hire a web designer’s services for this purpose of maintenance of your sit. You can place your order of creating personal blog to companies or web designers, they can make your blog but you have to write your articles of your blog yourself. A web designer will only co-operate you in technical process of issuance of article on the blog.

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How to create Urdu Blog

Now-a-days blogging is famous all around the world. Blog is like the personal diary that is written for internet. Blog is basically the other name of website in which people write down their thoughts, experiences, and information. If you would like to make the world listen your voice, then blogging is the best option.

It is easy to start/create a blog and also very easy to create blog in Urdu language (URDU Blog). It does not want skill and training, in simple words you can say that it is a child’s play now-a-days. You can even make of your own blog by free services. The other way is personal domain name and hosting by spending some money. If you already have a website, then you can make blog on it; or on the sub domain of that site. Here are some steps of how to make Urdu blog, given below.

STEPS FOR URDU BLOG:

•    Make the computer able to write Urdu.
•    Choose the blogging service and to set the blog up.
•    Set the theme/template to show Urdu clear.

Make the computer able to write Urdu

Pak Urdu Installer is used to read and write Urdu clearly in the computers of windows operating system. All the information, about how to install Pak Urdu Installer and how to write Urdu by using Pak Urdu Installer, you can find in this link. The information, besides windows i.e. other operating systems like mobile or tablet, you can find in this link.

Choose the blogging service and to set the blog up

To create the Urdu blog we have to select blogging service first. Many companies provide free facility of blog making e.g. Google’s Blogspot. There are many other companies that provide such facility like Word press etc. Blog can be generated on your own website by spending some amount, on the personal domain and hosting instead of free blogging service. You can find the detail of Blogging service and Blog setup in this link.

Set the theme/template to show Urdu clear

Theme and template are the chips of the same block. Because WordPress users call it theme and Blogspot users call it template. When the blog is setup, then an appropriate Urdu theme/template is selected so that Urdu might be seen clearly. Theme/template can be said the design of the blog. As there is design of website as it is we have design of blog. In fact blog is one of the types of website.