LaVonne Maupins's List: Blogging

• A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log))^[1] is 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 can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
• A majority are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.^[2] In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post on their blogs, but also build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.^[3] There are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments
• Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company.
• The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or "vlogs"), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs.
• A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic

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• Blogging  is...
   
  #1 A form of unedited, authentic self-expression

  #2  An instant publishing tool
  
  #3 An online journal with freshly updated  content
  
• #4 Amateur journalism
  
  #5 Something that will revolutionize  the Web (think RSS feeds)
   
  #6 A way to create community with your voters, er... readers
• #7 An alternative to mainstream media
• #8 A tool to teach students how to write
• 9 A new way to communicate with customers
• #10  A new form of knowledge management inside big companies
• 11 A way for  a bunch of navel-gazers to communicate with one another
• #12 Something  to keep you occupied when you're unemployed (more people than care to admit fit  into this category; have you noticed?)
  
  #13 A way to think and write in  short paragraphs instead of a long essay (which no one has time to read anyway)
  
• #14 Your email to everyone, as A-list blogger
• #15 A silly word that's fun to say ("Gotta go blog now... ")
  

  • blog used as a verb
• #16 A way of writing with a distinct voice and personalit
• #17 Something to talk about at cocktail parties
• #18 A URL to add to your resume
• #19 Something else to do with your mobile phone...think audio  blogging and moblogging
• #20 Something you don't want your mother to read

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