Blog is a website, created and maintained by people, with the entries of comments, descriptions of events, photos, videos or other material such as graphics. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a Blog. Information in blog is usually archived in date order, which provides an easy way to find blog entries posted on a particular date
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a link log, a site comprising a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs which comprising with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog.
Micro-Blogging is another important type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.
Features of Blogspot
Some of the most important features of blogspot are mentioned below:-
A blog is a personal diary
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a only place to collect and share things that you find interesting just like a personal diary— whether it's your political comment, or links to web sites you want to remember, or your day to day activity. Blog provides a way to store and share information about certain experience or event which can be access over internet anywhere.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, where as others organize it for command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands.
A Corporate Blog
As in most cases a blog can be crceated for private purposes or it can be for business purposes. Blogs are used to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.
Blog Customization
Whether you are starting your blog or just think it's time to give your existing blog a facelift. Blogger's user-friendly tools are help you in customizing a design of a page to a great-looking page.
Templates — Blog templates will get you started with an attractive site right away without you having to learn any HTML, though most of the websites also allows you to edit your blog's HTML code whenever you want.
Custom colors and fonts — When you are ready to take the next step in customizing of your blog, you can further customize our templates to create a design that perfectly reflects you and your blog.
Drag-and-drop page elements — Blogging websites have a features like simple drag-and-drop system which lets you easily decide exactly where your posts, profiles, archives and other parts of your blog should live on the page.
A collection of links
You can maintain a collection of all important links to other websites or blog with some related information. This gives a better exposure and sharing of each others websites.
A collaborative space
Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts on the web. It is about connecting with the others and hearing from anyone who reads the work and cares to respond. You can control who can read and write to your blogs. By the blogging, the entire world see what you have to say!
Comments - you can let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.
Access Controls - you can decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog, an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or you can create a single blog, it’s an private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas.
Profiles you can find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Profiles, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you.
A political soapbox & A breaking-news outlet
Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, spinning news and stories.
The great impact of certain political stories gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of new. Though often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key information to public light with media having to follow their lead. More often, news blogs tend to react to material already published by the mainstream media. By the increasing the number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of depth analysis.
Lately, the role of blogs became in the fields of political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war and other issues as a news source.
Photo Sharing
Sometimes you just want to share a photo. You can also upload photos in the Blog. It’s very simple clicks to upload a photo from your computer to the blog. If the photo which you like to put on your blog is already on the web then you can just use the URLs to your photo to upload into the blog. You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog.
Some blogging websites lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you are on the go. It is easily to possible to claim your mobile blog or switch your posts to another blog.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
DEFINE WEB BLOG
Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Information
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or web logs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
Blogging consequences
The emergence of blogging has brought a range of legal liabilities and other often unforeseen consequences. One area of concern is the issue of bloggers releasing proprietary or confidential information. Another area of concern is blogging and defamation. A third area of concern is employees who write about aspects of their place of employment or their personal lives, and then face loss of employment or other adverse consequences. A number of examples of blogging and its sometimes negative or unforeseen consequences are cited here.
Types of blog
There are various types of blogs, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs.
An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on Art work rather than text.
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog.
Rebecca Blood’s Weblogs: a history and perspective categorises blogs into ‘filter’ and ‘short-form journal’ genres. In addition, new tools have created a new type of blog; ‘distributed conversation’.
Filter blog
A filter blog is constructed around commentary of selected hyperlinks. On a particular topic the editor may draw attention to contrasting articles on other websites, and build these into a single narrative or discussion.
Short-form journal blog
A stream-of-consciousness record of thoughts, observations and events. The journal oeuvre is characterised by personal expression.
Distributed conversation (‘red-flag’) blog
publishing software has enabled new forms of blog to evolve.
Blog publishing software has introduced tools that have enabled new forms of blog to evolve. In particular the ability to add a response to a blog entry (comment) and automate the creation of links between different blogs (reciprocal linking) have had a marked impact on the nature of the blogosphere. These features have made space for ‘the reader’s voice’.
A distributed conversation (potentially coined by Mena and Ben Trott of MoveableType blog publishing software fame) uses an original blog entry as the starting point for an ongoing series of posts, either as comments or reciprocal links. As responses are received, they are listed underneath the blog, in order of posting. The original author is then encouraged to clarify, defend, or alter their original post―particularly where the blog relates to a technical subject.
For an example of a red-flag blog see Mike Davidson’s “March to your own standard” (challenging the web standards approach to web design).
Features
Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
Body, main content of the post.
Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
Post Date, date and time the post was published.
A blog entry optionally includes the following:
Comments -
Main article: Feedback comment system
Comments are a way to provide discussion on blog entries. Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post's subject. Services like coComment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.
Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Information
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or web logs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
Blogging consequences
The emergence of blogging has brought a range of legal liabilities and other often unforeseen consequences. One area of concern is the issue of bloggers releasing proprietary or confidential information. Another area of concern is blogging and defamation. A third area of concern is employees who write about aspects of their place of employment or their personal lives, and then face loss of employment or other adverse consequences. A number of examples of blogging and its sometimes negative or unforeseen consequences are cited here.
Types of blog
There are various types of blogs, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs.
An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on Art work rather than text.
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog.
Rebecca Blood’s Weblogs: a history and perspective categorises blogs into ‘filter’ and ‘short-form journal’ genres. In addition, new tools have created a new type of blog; ‘distributed conversation’.
Filter blog
A filter blog is constructed around commentary of selected hyperlinks. On a particular topic the editor may draw attention to contrasting articles on other websites, and build these into a single narrative or discussion.
Short-form journal blog
A stream-of-consciousness record of thoughts, observations and events. The journal oeuvre is characterised by personal expression.
Distributed conversation (‘red-flag’) blog
publishing software has enabled new forms of blog to evolve.
Blog publishing software has introduced tools that have enabled new forms of blog to evolve. In particular the ability to add a response to a blog entry (comment) and automate the creation of links between different blogs (reciprocal linking) have had a marked impact on the nature of the blogosphere. These features have made space for ‘the reader’s voice’.
A distributed conversation (potentially coined by Mena and Ben Trott of MoveableType blog publishing software fame) uses an original blog entry as the starting point for an ongoing series of posts, either as comments or reciprocal links. As responses are received, they are listed underneath the blog, in order of posting. The original author is then encouraged to clarify, defend, or alter their original post―particularly where the blog relates to a technical subject.
For an example of a red-flag blog see Mike Davidson’s “March to your own standard” (challenging the web standards approach to web design).
Features
Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
Body, main content of the post.
Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
Post Date, date and time the post was published.
A blog entry optionally includes the following:
Comments -
Main article: Feedback comment system
Comments are a way to provide discussion on blog entries. Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post's subject. Services like coComment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.
Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry
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