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Friday, 10 April 2009 |
Blogging communities and directories
Over the years, there are several online communities which was setup to connect people to blogs as well as a medium to connect other bloggers with one and another. These blogging communities encompass BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog.
Blogging and advertising
For the past 3 years, blogging and advertising has virtually combined together. It is indeed very common for blogs to bear their own advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to help promote the blogger's favorite topics. In fact, the popularity of blogs has also given rise to so-called fake blogs in which a company will engineer a fictional blog as a marketing tool to endorse a product.
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
The Blogosphere
The cooperative community of all blogs is also known as the blogosphere. Based on my observation, it seems that all blogs are on the internet by definition, and furthermore, they may be seen as an interconnected and socially networked marketplace. On the other hand, blogs comprise of various other elements such as its own blogrolls, comments, trackbacks and its own respective backlinks.
And when you refer to discussions in the blogosphere, this has been widely used by the media as a measurement of public opinion on various matters. A compilation of local blogs can sometimes be referred to as a bloghood.
Blog search engines
There are several blog search engines which sprung up over the internet over the years which can be used to search blog contents. These blog search engines comprise of Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati.
Based on my observation, it seems that Technorati, which is among the most famous blog search engines, has the ability to provide current information on both hot searches as well as tags used to categorize blog postings. In fact, according to the research community, they are working on going beyond simple keyword lookup, by inventing new methods to steer through huge amounts of information which can be found on the blogosphere.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
For those who use their devices to update their blogs are called moblogs. In depth, whenever a person updates his or her blog by a mobile device like a cell phone or PDA can be called as a moblog. The earliest known moblog bears the title of Wearable Wireless Webcam, which is a well known online shared diary of a person's life in a form of a journal which combines text, video, and pictures transmitted directly from a wearable PC and EyeTap device to the specific web site.
It seems that this practice of semi-automated blogging by utilizing a live video together with text can be known as sousveillance. Such journals or moblogs have been used as evidence in legal matters.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
It seems that there are plenty of other variations of blogs, such as genre type and media type blogs.
By genre
According to reliable news sources, some blogs focus on a specific subject, such as niche blogs, political blogs, classical music blogs, house blogs, education blogs, project blogs, fashion blogs, quizzing blogs, travel blogs, and legal blogs or dreamlogs.
On the other hand, there are two common types of genre blogs which consists of art blogs and music blogs. A blog which features discussions especially about one’s house and family can also be personally called a mama’s blog. On the other hand, there are also spam blogs or splogs which are circulating on the internet.
By media type
If you have encounter a blog comprising of videos is called a vlog. On the other hand, the blog that comprises of links is called a linklog, while a site containing a portfolio of sketches is known as a sketchblog or one comprising photos or pictures and images is called a photoblog. Blogs with very short posts and mixed media types are known tumblelogs. And blogs that are written on typewriters (yes, those old noisy typewriters) and then scanned are better known as typecast or typecast blogs.
Finally, a rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is called as a Phlog.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
There are so many types of blogs on the internet, but I shall focus mainly on personal blogs and corporate blogs.
Personal blogs
According to my definition, the personal blog is an ongoing diary or commentary by a person. And this is the most common blog type on the internet. Personal bloggers usually take credits in their blog posts, even if their blog is exposed to anyone. Blogs often become more than a method to just communicate; they become a method to reflect on life or works of art. And yet, blogging can have sentimental values. There are indeed lots of personal blogs that rise to fame and the mainstream. However, the other personal blogs quickly garner extensive followers. Usually, a tipical type of personal blog is referred to as microblogging, which is extremely comprehensive blogging as it seeks to capture other individual attention. For example, sites such as Twitter, allows bloggers to share their thoughts and feelings simultaneously with friends and family and I consider this as a much faster way than e-mailing or writing. In fact, I feel that this form of social media created online generations that are already too busy to keep in touch with one and another.
Corporate blogs
As you can see, a blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can also be used for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to improve the communication and culture in an organization or it can even be used externally for marketing, branding or public relations reasons are called corporate blogs.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
A blog is a type of website, usually written by an individual with day-to-day entries of comments from participating members, descriptions of events, and various other materials such as graphics or video. Entries are usually displayed in reverse-chronological order. The word ‘Blog’ can also be used as a verb, which bears the meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide a place of discussions or news on a particular subject; while others function as more personal online journals. A typical blog has a combination of text, images, and links to other fellow blog members, Web pages, and other media related to the topic. The ability for readers to leave comments which represents their thoughts in an interactive format plays an important role of many blogs. Most blogs are mainly textual, although some focus on art (artlog) with graphics, photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos entries (vlog), music (MP3 blog), and audio broadcasting (podcasting).
As of December 2007, the well known blog search engine, Technorati was already tracking more than 112 million blogs, which is phenomenal.
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