1.1 WHAT IS BLOG?
According to Oxford Dictionary, a blog is a website where a person writes regularly about recent events or topics that interest them, usually with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting. A blog is also a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).
“Blog” in full is Web log or Weblog, online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs. Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and Internet links. Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material. In addition, many blogs provide a forum to allow visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher. “To blog” is the act of composing material for a blog. Materials are largely written, but pictures, audio, and videos are important elements of many blogs. The “blogosphere” is the online universe of blogs.[1] And the blogosphere includes all the personal websites that exist on the internet, viewed as a network of people communicating with each other. The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks.
A blogger is the author of a blog. Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog or posting comments on someone else's blog. Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report[2] categorized bloggers into one of five categories:
Hobbyist—Someone who blogs for fun and doesn’t report any income from blogging (this represents 60% of the study).
Professional Part-time—These people typically blog to supplement their income and blog about personal musings or technology (approximately 9% of respondents).
Professional Full-time—These individuals make their living by blogging, but typically work freelance (approximately 9% of respondents).
Corporate—Corporate bloggers blog full-time as part of their job or are contracted to blog full-time for a company (8% of respondents).
Entrepreneur—Entrepreneurs blog for a company or organization they own (13% of respondents).
"Blog" may also be used as a verb, example:
Best known blog services are WordPress and Blogger[4] and Typepad and LiveJournal and Squarespace. A blog can have a single author or several. Most blogs allow readers to post comments in response to an article or post, but some do not. Bloglines is an RSS reader, which is a service that collects updates from your favorite blogs so you can read them in one place.[5]
Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has also become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index.
Additionally, blog content can be delivered automatically via electronic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds. Visitors subscribe to a blog's feeds in order to stay up to date with content that's being posted on subjects that interest them. Blog feeds are then read by what's known as blog feed reader software, widely available for free, so users can scan for recent blog posts of interest on the blogs to which they subscribe.
Blogs aren’t necessarily personal. A blog could have a single author and multiples authors or writers. The main misconception regarding the definition of blogs comes from people that associate blogs with their content. More specifically from people that associate blogs with the content from one particular type of blog: personal blogs. In other words, those people think that blogs are online diaries where people share their opinions, ramblings and personal events. That is just one of the things that you could do with a blog. Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders; Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers; individuals that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.[6]
Finally, blogging doesn't require that writers and contributors know a lot about HTML (Web page code). If a blogger or visitor can fill in an online form, they can blog and post comments on other blogs.[7] Today, starting a blog is like ABC…
[1] Michael Aaron Dennis, "blog." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012. (CD-ROM).
[2] ___, “State of the Blogosphere 2011” (technorati.com:18/4/2013), http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/
[3] ___, “Definition of Blog” (www.techterms.com: 16/4/2013), http://www.techterms.com/definition/blog.
[4] Blogger.com is started by Pyra Labs and later bought by Google Inc. in 2003.
[5] ___, “New Media Communication Technologies “ (www.uncp.edu: 16/4/2013), http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/NewMediaCommunicationTechnologies.html.
[6] ___, “What is a blog” (www.dailyblogtips.com: 16/4/2013), http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/.
[7] ___, “Blogging” (www.about.com: 16/4/2013), http://homebusiness.about.com/od/homebusinessglossar1/g/blogging.htm.
According to Oxford Dictionary, a blog is a website where a person writes regularly about recent events or topics that interest them, usually with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting. A blog is also a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).
“Blog” in full is Web log or Weblog, online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs. Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and Internet links. Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material. In addition, many blogs provide a forum to allow visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher. “To blog” is the act of composing material for a blog. Materials are largely written, but pictures, audio, and videos are important elements of many blogs. The “blogosphere” is the online universe of blogs.[1] And the blogosphere includes all the personal websites that exist on the internet, viewed as a network of people communicating with each other. The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks.
A blogger is the author of a blog. Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog or posting comments on someone else's blog. Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report[2] categorized bloggers into one of five categories:
Hobbyist—Someone who blogs for fun and doesn’t report any income from blogging (this represents 60% of the study).
Professional Part-time—These people typically blog to supplement their income and blog about personal musings or technology (approximately 9% of respondents).
Professional Full-time—These individuals make their living by blogging, but typically work freelance (approximately 9% of respondents).
Corporate—Corporate bloggers blog full-time as part of their job or are contracted to blog full-time for a company (8% of respondents).
Entrepreneur—Entrepreneurs blog for a company or organization they own (13% of respondents).
"Blog" may also be used as a verb, example:
- I am blogging
- Marc blogs about politic
- We blog as a group
- Marc blogged a lot last week.
Anybody who knows how to create and publish a Web page can publish their own blog. Almost all the Blog hosts today have made it even easier by creating an interface where users can simply type a text entry and hit "publish" to publish their blog. Because of the simplicity of creating a blog, many people have found a new presence on the Web. Instead of writing confidential entries in a book that no one is supposed to see, people now can share their personal feelings and experiences with thousands of people around the world. Blogs are typically updated daily, monthly, or anywhere in between.[3]
Best known blog services are WordPress and Blogger[4] and Typepad and LiveJournal and Squarespace. A blog can have a single author or several. Most blogs allow readers to post comments in response to an article or post, but some do not. Bloglines is an RSS reader, which is a service that collects updates from your favorite blogs so you can read them in one place.[5]
Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has also become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index.
Additionally, blog content can be delivered automatically via electronic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds. Visitors subscribe to a blog's feeds in order to stay up to date with content that's being posted on subjects that interest them. Blog feeds are then read by what's known as blog feed reader software, widely available for free, so users can scan for recent blog posts of interest on the blogs to which they subscribe.
Blogs aren’t necessarily personal. A blog could have a single author and multiples authors or writers. The main misconception regarding the definition of blogs comes from people that associate blogs with their content. More specifically from people that associate blogs with the content from one particular type of blog: personal blogs. In other words, those people think that blogs are online diaries where people share their opinions, ramblings and personal events. That is just one of the things that you could do with a blog. Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders; Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers; individuals that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.[6]
Finally, blogging doesn't require that writers and contributors know a lot about HTML (Web page code). If a blogger or visitor can fill in an online form, they can blog and post comments on other blogs.[7] Today, starting a blog is like ABC…
[1] Michael Aaron Dennis, "blog." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012. (CD-ROM).
[2] ___, “State of the Blogosphere 2011” (technorati.com:18/4/2013), http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/
[3] ___, “Definition of Blog” (www.techterms.com: 16/4/2013), http://www.techterms.com/definition/blog.
[4] Blogger.com is started by Pyra Labs and later bought by Google Inc. in 2003.
[5] ___, “New Media Communication Technologies “ (www.uncp.edu: 16/4/2013), http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/NewMediaCommunicationTechnologies.html.
[6] ___, “What is a blog” (www.dailyblogtips.com: 16/4/2013), http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/.
[7] ___, “Blogging” (www.about.com: 16/4/2013), http://homebusiness.about.com/od/homebusinessglossar1/g/blogging.htm.
It was a nice article ,I enjoyed every bit ,very informative
ReplyDeleteThank you Debanjali. Happy Blogging!
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