Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Questions on Blogs

-What is a blog? A blog is a public personal journal on the Web. Blogs are usually displayed in reverse chronological order to the reader and in a journal or log format.

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What's the difference between a blog and a webpage?  Webpage: A lot of information and download things.  Blog: Interact with the public and receive comments. Updated more frequently than webpages. More personal.

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What are the advantages of using a blog? Blogs are more personal and the person who writes it can be closer to the public audience whther it is by their opinion about the information displayed or contributions they make in the comments section.

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What is the origin of the word blog? G. Raikundalia and M. Rees were the first to use the term blog in a paper called "Exploiting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management." Jorn Barger defined weblog as logging the Web. In 1999 Peter Merholz shortened the term to blog.

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What does blogosphere mean? It means the community of blogs, all the blogs and the "world of blogs".

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What do you call someone who blogs? A blogger.

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What do you have to do if you want to write a blog? Create an account with your email. Then you have to update the blog with new posts. There are many free blogging services you can use to create your blog: 
AOL Hometown / AOL Journals (America Online, Inc.), Blog.com (Blog.com Inc.), Blogger (Google), LiveJournal (Six Apart), MySpace (News Corporation), Open Diary (The Open Diary), Windows Live Spaces / MSN Spaces (Microsoft).

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Do you need a special program on a computer to write blogs?
 You need some HTML knowledge and a place to host the Weblog.

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    When were blogs first created? 
    In the decade of the 2000. When the web 2.0 was developed you were able to write INTO the internet. These were called web logs > blogs. Google then adapted a blogging service called Bloger. It is one of the major features that Google has.

-What is the meaning of blog? It is a play on the words web and log since it is a journal on the internet.

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