This post is one of a series that Joyce Schwarz will be discussing in her panel : THE RISE OF USER GENERATED MEDIA:
BLOG: Google Results 1 - 10 of about 103,000,000 English BLOG: Definition: WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included. Although some blogs invite feedback and comments from visitors, Internet newsgroup discussions, which started long before the Web, tend to be more question-and-answer oriented.
BLOG: HISTORY: RSS:Really Simple Syndicaton Community->Media
Blogs took off in 1999 after blog development applications such as Pitas, Blogger and GrokSoup were released. The template-based software made it easy to create an online blog and continuously add entries without having to write the pages in HTML. Blog hosting services make it even easier to create a blog. All the development is done through the browser, and no software downloads are required
Many blog sites offer an RSS or Atom syndication feed that provides headlines of their latest entries along with URLs to the content (see syndication feed). DEFINITION: RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. RSS is widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia files. (See podcasting, broadcatching and MP3 blogs.)
Blog Demographics Age Range Blogs Created Percent 10-12 55,500 1.3% 13-19 2,120,000 51.5% 20-29 1,630,000 39.6% 30-39 241,000 5.8% 40-49 41,700 1.0% 50-59 18,500 0.4% 60-69 13,900 0.3% Total 4,120,000 100% ource: Perseus Development Corp.
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Blogosphere (alternate: blogsphere) is the collective term encompassing all weblogs or blogs. Weblogs are heavily interconnected; bloggers read other blogs, link to them, and reference them in their own writing. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture. Sites such as Technorati, Blog Street and Truth Laid Bear track the interconnections between them. The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half, according to blog analysis firm Technorati Pew Internet & American Life reports a new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds. That roughly translates into 15,000 new blogs every day. Blog demos 2004
BusinessWeek Online: Blogging Terms:
CITIZEN JOURNALISM
Eyewitness or investigative reporting by a blogger adds new insight to events not covered by traditional media. Examples: Early personal accounts of the tsunami in December or digging into the authenticity of memos used by CBS's Dan Rather in his report on President Bush's National Guard duty.
MICRO-NEWS Folksonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCREATIVE COMMONS
This nonprofit has devised a copyright system that allows creators to be more flexible in allowing others to use their works. This is important in the grassroots blogging world, since it encourages people to publish video, podcasts, and photos online that others can add to their blogs. Online photo service Flickr, co-founded by Caterina Fake, encourages subscribers to share photos using the Creative Commons licenses. DOOCED
An expression used when someone loses a job because of blogging. This happened to flight attendant Ellen Simonetti at Delta Air Lines. Firings can occur when a company finds an employee's post questionable or too revealing about sensitive data. Where does the name come from? Heather Armstrong, who lost her job because her Web site, dooce.com, included stinging satire of her former employer. FLOGS
aka FAKE BLOGS
Fake blogs created by corporate marketing departments to promote a service, product, or brand. The flog's writer often uses a fake name. Derided by bloggers, fake blogs are an increasing trend. McDonald's created a flog to accompany its Super Bowl ad about the mock discovery of a french fry shaped like Lincoln, while Captain Morgan created a fake blog in March for its Rum drinks.
Blogs devoted to extremely niche topics. When Lockhart Steele started a blog chronicling restaurant openings and new building construction in his rapidly changing neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side, he quickly found an audienceÑand advertisers, including the New York Times real estate sectionMOBLOGGING
Posting to a blog on the go, from a camera phone or handheld device. These postings can be random or tied to news, such as pictures of the iPod Shuffle when it was launched at Apple Computer's MacWorld, or the birth of a baby. PAID BLOGGING
Unlike bloggers who simply put a banner ad on their site, paid bloggers write about a product or issue. This has created controversy about whether bloggers need to disclose that they are being paid and whether the practice damages their credibility. Upstart Marqui paid 20 bloggers $800 a month for three months to promote its Web marketing services, while Republicans and Democrats paid three bloggers during the recent elections. MSM aka MAIN STREAM MEDIA aka LAME STREAM MEDIA
Any publication, radio station, or TV news channel that doesn't recognize the power shift created by the blogosphere and doesn't adopt blogging. The MSM are derided by bloggers for lecturing and adhering to what they call false objectivity. JOHANNES GUTENBERG
This 15th-century German devised technology to manufacture books. Gutenberg failed as a businessman and died poor. Yet his printing press, involving movable type, gave birth to mass media world in which a handful of publishers can reach audiences of millions. That model is under threat today.
... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. ...
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