New Delhi: It is all about opinion - yours, mine, or somebody else's - but the Internet is letting you put everything from your best thought out argument to your deepest, darkest fantasy on my blog and your blog.
Justice for Jessica, an online condemnation of the verdict in the Jessica Lall murder case, is an example of public opinion finding a voice that everyone can hear.
A blog is like an online diary and anyone can start one.
You can write whatever you want on it and remain anonymous if you so choose, updating or adding information to it is called blogging and someone who maintains it is a blogger.
But blogs have power and you would not have know Monica Lewinsky if there were no blogs.
A blog had broken the story about Newsweek worrying whether to publish the story on Bill Clinton and her.
The 9/11 saw blogs that were online obituaries or a call for war on terror even a voice of reason trying to calm troubled waters.
And there has been no looking back since.
Blogs have gained immense popularity and they are breaking, shaping and spinning opinion
But with the good, comes the bad and some blogs elevate simple conversation to resemble sensational claims and become stories themselves.
Critics worry that bloggers don't respect privacy and an unbiased point of view is almost completely unheard of in the blog-o-sphere.
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