Blog
A blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal
style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log."
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject,
such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal
online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links
to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format
is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual
although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos
(vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of
social media.
History
Chronicles, commonplaces, diaries, and perzines can all be seen
as predecessors of blogs.
Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms,
including Usenet, e-mail lists and bulletin board systems (BBS).
In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running
conversations with "threads". Threads are topical connections
between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard". Some have
likened blogging to the mass-observation movement of the mid-20th
century.
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The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists. The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers. Early webblogs were simply manually
updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of
tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles
posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process
feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately,
this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces
blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of
browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". |
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Open Diary
launched in October 1998, soon growing to thousands of online diaries.
Some blogs were an important
source of news during the December 2004 Tsunami such as Medecins
Sans Frontieres, which used SMS text messaging to report from affected
areas in Sri Lanka and Southern India. |
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