What exactly is a blog? A blog is a kind of online diary for a company or a person, where you regularly post about your life, your passions, business, news or other interests. It is a way of having your own space in the virtual world. If your blog becomes popular and you attract a lot of visitors you can earn good money from advertising for other companies or services on your blog. Some blogs are so popular that people pay a subscription fee to get the posts. 99% percent of all blogs let’s anyone sign up for it and it is absolutely free. As you have probably guessed, you are reading a blog now!

Blog definition, who blogs and why blog?

“A blog is a personal diary of thoughts that are channelised into an organized format and made readable on the internet” When a company has a blog, there is always someone from the company writing the blog posts. The company itself does not blog, a person in the company blogs. Irrespective of whether you read through an amateur blog, a hi-fi movie celebrity blog or even a business news blog, it is clear that to express one self and to be heard is a cornerstone of human nature. This is the core feature that flavors the different blogs with content and also makes them so interesting to read.

How do I start a blog – How to have a blog?

Being inspired by other bloggers could be the right way to start one of your own. You must first decide whether you want to make a general blog for yourself or create it in a specific perspective, targeting topics like politics, sports, travel, business marketing purposes, etc

1. A personal blog is one where you combine your emotions, sentiments with certain facts of life. Facebook would be a good place to host a blog like that.
2. A general blog deals with a topic in particular like, travel, religion or spirituality, etc.
3. A moblog is a blog that can be accessed or updated even from a mobile device. One instance of a moblog is http://chris.pirillo.com/free-credit-report
4. Business blogs are created with a clear intention to make money from them
5. Podcasts are a cluster of digital media in the audio and video form that are frequently updated with latest episodes.
6. Radioblogs are audio streams that can be listened to online and basically function in the same manner as a normal blog. Radioblogs are often not broadcasted such as normal radio and can sometimes only be heard on the internet.

A very successful blog can generate as much as 50000USD per year income from advertising. The trend of blogging is catching up like wild fire but having it as a real job is almost impossible and is restricted to the very few top bloggers.

Here are some links to places that hosts your blog for free:

Wordpress

The word press home page looks like the screen shot that appears here. You can sign up for free and run your fingers over the keyboard to make an excellent piece of blog that will be displayed on a global front.

Facebook

The screenshot above shows clearly an example of a facebook blog which also adopts a free sign up procedure. These blogs are categorized in the chronological order making it convenient to pick and read.

Blogger

Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog.

How to design a blog and a list of well designed blogs?

This can be done extensively with thousands of options available from websites online that guide you on designing your blog. It is all about how presentable you want your blog to look and what you need to highlight in order to catch the readers’ eye. The choice made from various templates available, forms the base or framework of the blog. These options that can be customized, add to the uniqueness of your blog depending on the kind of header, footer, content area and of course the hues that you have chosen for the same. http://www.blogdesignblog.com/blog-design/how-to-blog-design-style-guide/ could be an excellent guide in giving your creativity a definite form and design.

List of well designed blogs to look at:

http://superfluousbanter.org

http://odds-and-ends.net/photolog

http://www.joshuaink.com

http://thebignoob.com

http://avalonstar.com/blog/

Sites that sell templates for blogs :

http://www.spicynodes.org

http://www.templatemonster.com/

http://my-web-template.blogspot.com

http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com

http://www.blogskins.com

http://www.eblogtemplates.com

How to get pictures for your blog ?

One of the biggest problems of having a blog is how and where to get pictures. A blog with text only is very boring to read. While you may not know this you are actually lucky, because you are actually reading this post on a site that will start offering a collection of about 40000 images absolutely free for blog usage. Until we have the launch, you are free to use the images in the portfolio section in your blog posts. Make sure to sign up on our blog in the upper right corner so you will be notified when we launch our collection. Just taking images from the internet and using it on your blog can cause massive legal problems even if you are just a student or private person and can be traced by image copyright software that searches the net for images.
http://www.picscout.com

Option for commenting and debate:

When your blog starts getting comments it means you are doing well. Giving your reader the option to comment gives them a feeling of belongingness and you are on your way to creating a small community.

Chronological order of contents:

The latest post on a blog is always on the top and the older posts are either displayed below in categories, archives or other such links. This makes the process of accessing older blogs very organized.

Getting noticed with your blog.

A great way of bringing all keen readers’ attention is to add the link of your blog on facebook or other online forums. Writing in simple terms, easy to understand and good titles is what gets you into the good books of search engines.

Searching for blogs – how to find blogs?

The best way to find good blogs is to refer to lists and word of mouth. We have done you a favor and included links in this post to the most respectable and most professional free blogs out there. This is a great resource for you because good blogs can be surprisingly hard to find.

Best blogs of 2009, as of today, now!

News Blogs

Huffingtonpost

Regarded by many as the best online news blog in the world, I personally follow this blog to keep up on domestic US news.

CNN World

While not being a standard blog this is the resource I use for world news

The Business Insider

This is a good business review blog about the reasons behind the natural fluctuations in currency and the world market status from time to time.

Fox News

This blog is about the hottest and the most authentic news in America based on the Fox news channel

Top Photo Blogs

The blogs listed are good resources for an amateur photographer, who is on his way to make it big.

Pop Photo

– Good for fun and interesting.

Photography Blog

– Highly popular site and is great, for reviews and news.

Grey Scale Gorilla

- Excellent overlooked blog. Simply great!

Chase Jarvis

- Famous photographer and self-promotion star, Chase Jarvis delivers an excellent blog and post’s regularly.

Digital Photography School

– This blog is like an online tutorial for aspiring photographers and also an enlightener on how to enhance your skills at photography.

TOP POLITICAL AND POLITICS BLOGS

Andrew Sullivan

- Andrew declares himself not political at all. His radical views are however highly political potent and he has become quite famous over the years for his views and insights. He is mentioned in Time Magazines top 100 blogs of 2009.

NY Times Blog – Paul Krugman

- A liberal economist blog by Nobel price winner Paul Krugman. This blog is extremely popular and hosted by the New York Times; it is probably not the worst to follow.

Crooks And Liars

– A highly controversial blog about politics, known as “the Vlogfather” this blog has a reputation of its own.

The Fix – Chris Cillizza

-Here is an excellent analytical state wise political report by Chris Cilliza, who is a renowned reporter for the Washington post, a web blog.

BLOGS ABOUT STUFF… ALL KIND OF COOL STUFF…

Boing Boing

- A cool blog on amazing reality connected with technology. Could leave you zapped!

Discover – Badastronomy

– An astronomical science blog that is not bad, but actually quite good.

Tech Crunch

- A great technology blog about reviews on the latest internet based products and companies.

CELEBRITY MOVIE BLOGS

I do not follow these blogs myself, but they are highly popular and deserve mentioning.

Just Jared

- An awesome combination of celebrity news, latest movie trailers and pictures is what the whole blog is about.

Radar Online

- The hottest of Hollywood is right here on this blog.

Celebrity Gossip

-This is indeed a destination for all those celebrity gossip lovers.

Pop Eater

– All the hot movie celebrity news that you wanted to catch up on is all here on this blog.

TMZ

- A perfect representation of the ‘behind the scenes’ life of major celebrities is reflected here.

HIGHLY TALKED ABOUT BLOGS and AMATEUR BLOGS

Gizmodo

– This blog focuses on the latest techno gadgets, making it a popular blog.

Perez Hilton

– A famous talked about Celebrity news blog

RSS AND BLOGGING – ADVANCED READING

RSS is one feature that has made blogging more meticulous, organized and allowed for easier access of information from connected blogs. The full form of RSS being ‘rich site summary’ or ‘really simple syndication’, it allows for contracting information from various sites of your choice and bringing it in a readable format on one RSS reading platform. The RSS feeds are supported by XML which is a preferred way to store data on a file online.

The XML primarily is a tool that helps to describe information vividly through the use of tags. This gives scope for bulk data formatting online coming from groups of people who want it the similar way.

The perfect combination of RSS with blogging enables better reading and saves the reader the trouble of accessing various different websites or other blogs to get updated information on the same. The RSS feeds give readers the opportunity to subscribe for information on those specific websites and all of this can be read together at one place on your own blog itself. These tools have made the process of blogging and accessing updated information faster and effortless. This has been useful in the education line, where teachers and educators use the RSS feeds to communicate to pupils at large at a time.

On the whole, if you don’t blog, you could get obsolete. Some of the very famous blogs can be surveyed online and this could be a great way to take off on your personal or business blogging project. You needn’t be surprised if there comes a time when the world will look into this virtual window practically for all kinds of major connections, information and perfect communication so that all other processes in the world we live in are more orderly, falling perfectly in place.

Главное отличие между проверкой и пристрелкой гладкоствольного ружья состоит в следующем: при проверке выясняют бой ружья средним, стандартным патроном, снаряженным определенным номером дроби, при определенной температуре, на определенную дистанцию; при пристрелке добиваются от ружья того боя, который необходим, той дробью, которой будут стрелять на конкретной охоте, при той или иной температуре воздуха, на ту или иную дистанцию.

Еще одно принципиальное отличие: при проверке выясняют точность боя ружья, а при пристрелке определяют, куда необходимо (если это, конечно, надо) выносить точку прицеливания для того, чтобы попасть в нужное место при стрельбе теми снарядами и на ту дистанцию, на которую придется стрелять на охоте. Далее, при проверке устанавливают, какую кучность боя дает ружьё стандартными патронами, а при пристрелке добиваются, если это необходимо, понижения или повышения кучности.

По популярности охота на кабана вполне сравнима с охотой на лося. Этот вид очень хорошо адаптирован в культурном ландшафте и избегает обширных массивов малопродуктивных лесов, явно тяготея к сельскохозяйственным угодьям, т.е. к местам с достаточно большой плотностью населения.

Наиболее многочислен кабан в западных и южных регионах России, особенно в зоне широколиственных лесов, а также в горах и предгорьях Кавказа и в Приморье.

Малоизвестные способы охоты

О Вальдшнепе и охоте на него написано довольно много. Всегда был велик интерес охотников к этой красивой, загадочной птице. А для некоторых вальдшнеп является первой и лучшей охотничьей дичью.

В России широко распространены два способа охоты на вальдшнепа – стрельба на весенней тяге и охота с легавой на осенних высыпках. Однако, помимо них, существуют и другие, менее распространённые способы. Какие-то из них носят случайный характер, другие – не являются видами охоты собственно на вальдшнепа, а практикуются на охоте за другой дичью. Все эти способы представляют определённый интерес для охотника-вальдшнепятника и, я думаю, будут интересны нашим читателям.

Охота с подхода считается самой доступной, для такого вида охоты вам не понадобится напарник, пищик, умение манить. По правде сказать, всё равно необходимо внимание, умение ориентироваться и бесшумно передвигаться по лесу. Наиболее “добычливой” эта охота бывает ранним утром. Если ягодник большой, с чётко выраженной границей, то начинать обходить его нужно вдоль края, на 20-30 метров углубившись в него.

При опасности рябчики сразу стремятся скрыться в лесу. Но если вам удалось отсечь их от леса, то появится возможность выстрела влёт. В августе, когда выводки ещё не распались, молодые взлетают дружно и часто, не отлетая на большое расстояние, сразу рассаживаются на ближних деревьях. Взлёт рябчика шумный, и слышно его далеко. Среагировав на взлёт, не следует стремиться выстрелить влёт, лучше постараться заметить место посадки, осторожно подойти и разглядеть птицу на дереве.

По популярности и доступности мало какая другая охота может сравниться с охотой на уток. Открытие! Вся основная нагрузка ложится на те охотхозяйства, которые имеют водоёмы, изобилующие именно этой дичью. Однако давно замечено, что с удалением от даты открытия добычливость охот прогрессивно снижается. И виной этому не только сокращение численности уток в результате отстрела, но и другие причины. Прежде всего это то, что пернатые быстро уясняют опасность, таящуюся в стационарно построенных шалашах, а в большинстве хозяйств практикуется  охота только из шалашей, сооружённых в местах привычной кормёжки выводков и на маршрутах их тренировочных облётов. Но то, что давало хорошие результаты во второй половине августа, малопригодно для сентября, и, конечно, для более позднего периода, так как утки взрослеют, набираются опыта, у них меняется характер питания, а также места кормёжки и отдыха. По сравнению с августовской, охота становится значительно сложнее. Но с конца сентября наступает некоторое оживление, потому что начинает подлетать, так называемая, «северная» утка. А если говорить проще, начинается осенний пролёт.