Blog the Beautiful

• Blog the Beautiful
  From President’s Desk
  Zamil Toastmasters
  
  Toastmasters share one common habit. That is the habit of reading. This reading habit, which started when we were young was limited to reading printed media in the past. Later it extended to reading internet media on and off line. While reading was easy, authoring and publishing had their limitations always. In spite of having writing skills, many of us had difficulty in conveying to the world due to their limited resources and restricted access to the editorial groups of famous magazines.
  
  Advent of internet in the 90’s had simplified this task to a larger extent. Colourful articles with multimedia and photos and videos sharing individual life style and experiences could be easily shared across the internet by web authoring. However, this process required knowledge of HTML authoring and expertise on web programming.
  
  Web authoring as of today has become “A Child’s Play” thanks to Blogs. Blog or Web log is a boon for a common man (in the sense, not a software professional) to directly pen his ideas, share the multimedia information he wishes to share with the world through internet.
  
  The blog sites have lead to a larger circle of amateur writers, radically different kind of thinking. Writing is no longer the monopoly of elite few. And it is not limited to English. Those who have special attachment and affinity to their mother tongue can now, read, write and publish in their native language now.
  
  For example, Microsoft windows XP currently has built in support for Asian Languages. Classical Language like Tamil can be invoked from Control Panel – Regional Languages – Add Asian Languages. Software like E-kalappai bring into your PC, the Unicode (UTF-8) Tamil font into your task bar. Switching over to tamil font, articles can be typed using a user friendly phonetic key board and published into blogs in a jiffy.
  
  My dear toastmasters, I am sure many of you will be having your own blogs and your favourite blog sites for worthy reading. Please do share those with us.
  
  In Zamil Toastmasters, we share and cherish our knowledge and know how on “Internet Publishing and E-books”
  Apart from reading, we share another common objective.. that is “Express Your self in Many ways”