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written in your blogs. They may criticise you through negative feedback and comments,
which you may not like. At times, some people like politicians and celebrities take legal
actions against the blogger under the law.
• Time Consuming: Blogging takes a lot of your time and if you do not limit it, your other
essential and daily tasks may be neglected or badly aff ected.
• Commitment: Every writing project requires commitment otherwise it has no value to
the writer or blogger. Blogging requires some long-term commitments for it to have a
real value as social and professional communication tool. If a professional blogger (full
time or part-time) does not have commitment to his blogging projects, his earnings may
get badly aff ected.

• Competition: There is a lot of competition among bloggers Learn More
on the web to fi nd readers outside their friends and family,
Blogger was launched
who will actually read their blogs because anyone with an
in 1999.
Internet access and writing skills can be a blogger.

Web Feed

All websites like news and blog sites keep on updating the information. Each website has
unique URL, but visiting each site is not a possibility. Web feed allows us to view updates from
the sites on a single page. To access to web feeds, subscription to a website is required. A web
feed is a document whose content items include web links to the sources of the content. News
websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds. However, feeds are also used to deliver
structured information like weather data.

Podcasting

Podcasting is derived from the words iPod (a personal
digital audio player made by Apple) and broadcasting.
Podcasting combines the freedom of blogging with
digital audio technology to create an almost endless
supply of content. The thoughts and opinion of a person
can be distributed to a world using Podcast. Podcasting
is a process of making and distributing a podcast. A pod
catcher is an application software that is used by the
users to access the podcast fi les. Some popular sites Think and Discuss
that host the podcast are www.buzzsprout.com and
Discuss the uses of podcasting.
www.soundcloud.com.

Computer Etiquette

One should be very careful about accessing the services online and using them.

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