Weblog changes

The features in Blogger have changed for the past 3 years. Blogger is a web site launched in 1999 from Pyra Labs, San Francisco, CA (http://www.blogger.com) that provides the tools for creating blogs (Weblogs). Feature such as ‘auto-save’ was noticed. Technology changes from time to time and Blogger has upgraded itself to catch up with the ever-changing technology. To my understanding, there are now more features and skins to experiment with compared to the past.

In a newspaper report in the Sunday times titled ‘Girls’ domain’, it was reported that ‘research showed that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content are teenage girls.’

In the report, Prof Gill stated that girls are more patient and creative when it came to designing. From a young age, they were taught how to express themselves said Prof Gill, who is the interim director for the Institute for Communications Research and associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He added that ‘historically, girls and women had been expected to be social, communal and skilled in decorative arts.’

Girls are hitting it big in this up-coming trend and studies show that among Web users, from ages of 12 to 17, significantly more girls than boys blog and create or work on their own Web pages.

I personally notice that most of my female friends own a blog as compared to my male friends. Maybe girls have more things (personal) to rant about, as compared to guys?

Second observation is that blogger has made it easier to set up a blog as the users are getting younger. My twin nieces who are only 10 years old, already have their own photo blog.