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What is blog?
In simple word blog is like your
personal diary that you share online with others but there is much more
than this.
Blog
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
This article is about the type of website. For other uses, see Blog
(disambiguation).
This article is semi-protected.
A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of website,
usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog"
can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a
blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others
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 of readers to leave comments in an interactive
format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily
textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photo
blog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio
(podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very
short posts.
As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more
than 112,000,000 blogs.
Types
There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type
of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.
Personal blogs
The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is
the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride
in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read. Blogs often
become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to
reflect on life, or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental
quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some
personal blogs quickly garner an extensive following. One type of
personal blog, referred to as a microblog, is extremely detailed and
seeks to capture a moment in time. Some sites, such as Twitter, allow
bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends
and family, and are much faster than emailing or writing.
Corporate and organizational blogs
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business
purposes. Blogs used internally to enhance the communication and
culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or
public relations purposes are called corporate blogs. Similar blogs for
clubs and societies are called club blogs, group blogs, or by similar
names; typical use is to inform members and other interested parties of
club and member activities.
By genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs,
travel blogs (also known as travelogs), house blogs,fashion blogs,
project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs,
quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or
dreamlogs. Two common types of genre blogs are art blogs and music
blogs. A blog featuring discussions especially about home and family is
not uncommonly called a mom blog.[5][6][7][8][9] While not a legitimate
type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a
Splog.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is
called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a
sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with
shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. Blogs that
are written on typewriters and then scanned are called typecast or
typecast blogs; see typecasting (blogging).
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog.
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose
it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could
be called a moblog. One early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an
online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video,
and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap
device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with
live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance. Such
journals have been used as evidence in legal matters.[citation needed]
Community and cataloging
The Blogosphere
The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere.
Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as
interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments,
linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks.
Discussions "in the blogosphere" are occasionally used by the media as
a gauge of public opinion on various issues. Because new, untapped
communities of bloggers can emerge in the space of a few years,
Internet marketers pay close attention to "trends in the blogosphere".
Blog search engines
Several blog search engines are used to
search blog
contents, such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati,
which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides current
information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog
postings. The research community is working on going beyond simple
keyword search, by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts
of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects
like BlogScope.
Blogging communities and directories
Several online communities exist that
connect people
to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog and
MyBlogLog. Interest-specific blogging platforms are also available. For
instance, Blogster has a sizable community of political bloggers among
its members.
Blogging and advertising
It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially
benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes. The
popularity of blogs has also given rise to "fake blogs" in which a
company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote a
product.
Popularity
Researchers
have analyzed
the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two
measures of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity
through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies
of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to
become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more
quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority
than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the
blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.
The
blogdex project was
launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and
gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their
social properties. It gathered this information for over 4 years, and
autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in the
blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can therefore
be considered the first instantiation of a memetracker. The project is
no longer active, but a similar function is now served by tailrank.com.
Blogs
are given rankings by
Technorati based on the number of incoming links and Alexa Internet
based on the Web hits of Alexa Toolbar users. In August 2006,
Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that
of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei. Chinese media Xinhua reported that this
blog received more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the
most popular blog in the world. Technorati rated Boing Boing to be the
most-read group-written blog.
Blurring with the mass media
Many
bloggers, particularly
those engaged in participatory journalism, differentiate themselves
from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media
working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as
a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to
the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright
nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible
news. Bloggers and other contributors to user-generated content are
behind Time magazine naming their 2006 person of the year as "you".
Many mainstream
journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs — well over
300,
according to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list. The first known use of
a blog on a news site was in August 1998, when Jonathan Dube of The
Charlotte Observer published one chronicling Hurricane Bonnie.
Some
bloggers have moved over to
other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio
and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Atrios),
Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily
Kos), Alex Steffen (Worldchanging) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette). In
counterpoint, Hugh Hewitt exemplifies a mass-media personality who has
moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by
being an influential blogger. Equally many established authors, for
example Mitzi Szereto have started using Blogs to not only update fans
on their current works but also to expand into new areas of writing.
Blogs
have also had an
influence on minority languages, bringing together scattered speakers
and learners; this is particularly so with blogs in Gaelic languages.
Minority language publishing (which may lack economic feasibility) can
find its audience through inexpensive blogging.
There
are many examples of
bloggers who have published books based on their blogs, e.g., Salam
Pax, Ellen Simonetti, Jessica Cutler, ScrappleFace. Blog-based books
have been given the name blook. A prize for the best blog-based book
was initiated in 2005,[20] the Lulu Blooker Prize.[21] However, success
has been elusive offline, with many of these books not selling as well
as their blogs. Only blogger Tucker Max made the New York Times
Bestseller List. The book based on Julie Powell's blog "The Julie/Julia
Project" was made into the film Julie & Julia, apparently the
first
to do so.
Legal and social consequences
Blogging can result in a range of
legal liabilities and other unforeseen consequences.
Defamation or liability
Several
cases have been
brought before the national courts against bloggers concerning issues
of defamation or liability. U.S. payouts related to blogging totaled
$17.4 million by 2009; in some cases these have been covered by
umbrella insurance. The courts have returned with mixed verdicts.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in general, are immune from
liability for information that originates with third parties (U.S.
Communications Decency Act and the EU Directive 2000/31/EC).
In Doe v. Cahill, the
Delaware Supreme Court held that stringent standards had to be met to
unmask the anonymous posts of bloggers and also took the unusual step
of dismissing the libel case itself (as unfounded under American libel
law) rather than referring it back to the trial court for
reconsideration.In a bizarre twist, the Cahills were able to obtain the
identity of John Doe, who turned out to be the person they suspected:
the town's mayor, Councilman Cahill's political rival. The Cahills
amended their original complaint, and the mayor settled the case rather
than going to trial.
In January
2007, two prominent
Malaysian political bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan, were sued
by pro-government newspaper, The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia)
Berhad, Kalimullah bin Masheerul Hassan, Hishamuddin bin Aun and
Brenden John a/l John Pereira over an alleged defamation. The plaintiff
was supported by the Malaysian government. Following the suit, the
Malaysian government proposed to "register" all bloggers in Malaysia in
order to better control parties against their interest. This is the
first such legal case against bloggers in the country.
In the United States,
blogger Aaron Wall was sued by Traffic Power for defamation and
publication of trade secrets in 2005. According to Wired Magazine,
Traffic Power had been "banned from Google for allegedly rigging search
engine results." Wall and other "white hat" search engine optimization
consultants had exposed Traffic Power in what they claim was an effort
to protect the public. The case was watched by many bloggers because it
addressed the murky legal question of who is liable for comments posted
on blogs.The case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, and
Traffic Power failed to appeal within the allowed time.
In 2009, a
controversial and
landmark decision by The Hon. Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order
to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton.
In
2009, NDTV issued a
legal notice to Indian blogger Chetan Kunte for "abusive free speech"
regarding a blog post criticizing their coverage of the Mumbai
attacks.[35] The blogger unconditionally withdrew his post, replacing
it with legal undertaking and an admission that his post had been
"defamatory and untrue" which resulted in several Indian bloggers
criticizing NDTV for trying to silence critics.
Employment
Employees
who blog about elements
of their place of employment raise the issue of employee branding,
since their activities can begin to affect the brand recognition of
their employer. In general, attempts by employee bloggers to protect
themselves by maintaining anonymity have proved ineffective.
Delta
Air Lines fired
flight attendant Ellen Simonetti because she posted photographs of
herself in uniform on an airplane and because of comments posted on her
blog "Queen of Sky: Diary of a Flight Attendant" which the employer
deemed inappropriate. This case highlighted the issue of personal
blogging and freedom of expression vs. employer rights and
responsibilities, and so it received wide media attention. Simonetti
took legal action against the airline for "wrongful termination,
defamation of character and lost future wages". The suit was postponed
while Delta was in bankruptcy proceedings (court docket).
In early
2006, Erik Ringmar, a
tenured senior lecturer at the London School of Economics, was ordered
by the convenor of his department to "take down and destroy" his blog
in which he discussed the quality of education at the school.
Mark
Cuban, owner of the Dallas
Mavericks, was fined during the 2006 NBA playoffs for criticizing NBA
officials on the court and in his blog.
Mark
Jen was terminated in
2005 after 10 days of employment as an Assistant Product Manager at
Google for discussing corporate secrets on his personal blog, then
called 99zeros and hosted on the Google-owned Blogger service. He
blogged about unreleased products and company finances a week before
the company's earnings announcement. He was fired two days after he
complied with his employer's request to remove the sensitive material
from his blog.
In India,
blogger Gaurav Sabnis
resigned from IBM after his posts exposing the false claims of a
management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to burn
their IBM laptops as a sign of protest against him.
Jessica
Cutler, aka "The
Washingtonienne", blogged about her sex life while employed as a
congressional assistant. After the blog was discovered and she was
fired, she wrote a novel based on her experiences and blog: The
Washingtonienne: A Novel. Cutler is presently being sued by one of her
former lovers in a case that could establish the extent to which
bloggers are obligated to protect the privacy of their real life
associates.
Catherine Sanderson, a.k.a.
Petite Anglaise, lost her job in Paris at a British accountancy firm
because of blogging. Although given in the blog in a fairly anonymous
manner, some of the descriptions of the firm and some of its people
were less than flattering. Sanderson later won a compensation claim
case against the British firm, however.
On the
other hand, Penelope Trunk
wrote an upbeat article in the Boston Globe back in 2006, entitled
"Blogs 'essential' to a good career". She was one of the first
journalists to point out that a large portion of bloggers are
professionals and that a well-written blog can help attract employers.
Political dangers
Blogging can sometimes have
unforeseen consequences in politically sensitive areas. Blogs are much
harder to control than broadcast or even print media. As a result,
totalitarian and authoritarian regimes often seek to suppress blogs
and/or to punish those who maintain them.
In
Singapore, two ethnic Chinese
were imprisoned under the country’s anti-sedition law for
posting
anti-Muslim remarks in their blogs
Egyptian
blogger Kareem
Amer was charged with insulting the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
and an Islamic institution through his blog. It is the first time in
the history of Egypt that a blogger was prosecuted. After a brief trial
session that took place in Alexandria, the blogger was found guilty and
sentenced to prison terms of three years for insulting Islam and
inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mubarak.[51]
Egyptian
blogger Abdel Monem
Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for anti-government writings in his
blog. Monem is a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
After
expressing opinions in his
personal blog about the state of the Sudanese armed forces, Jan Pronk,
United Nations Special Representative for the Sudan, was given three
days notice to leave Sudan. The Sudanese army had demanded his
deportation.
In
Myanmar, Nay Phone Latt, a
blogger, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon
critical of head of state Than Shwe.
Personal safety
See
also: Cyberstalking and Internet homicide
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One consequence of
blogging is the
possibility of attacks or threats against the blogger, sometimes
without apparent reason. Kathy Sierra, author of the innocuous blog
Creating Passionate Users, was the target of such vicious threats and
misogynistic insults that she canceled her keynote speech at a
technology conference in Ssan Diego, fearing for her safety. While a
blogger's anonymity is often tenuous, Internet trolls who would attack
a blogger with threats or insults can be emboldened by anonymity.
Sierra and supporters initiated an online discussion aimed at
countering abusive online behavior and developed a blogger's code of
conduct.
History
Main article: History of blogging timeline
Main article: Online diary
The
term "weblog" was
coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was
coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the
phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May
1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as
both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to
post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection
with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the
terms.
Origins
Before
blogging became popular,
digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial
online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail
lists[63] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet
forum software, created running conversations with "threads." Threads
are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."
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. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in
1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as
one of the earliest bloggers,[64] as is Jerry Pournelle. Dave Winer's
Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and
longest running weblogs.[65][66] Another early blog was Wearable
Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life
combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable
computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of
semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred
to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in
legal matters.
Early
blogs were simply manually
updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools
to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in
reverse chronological order 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". Blogs can be hosted by
dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog
software, or on regular web hosting services.
Rise in popularity
After a
slow start, blogging
rapidly gained in popularity. Blog usage spread during 1999 and the
years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous
arrival of the first hosted blog tools:
* Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in
October 1998,
which soon grew to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary innovated
the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers
could add comments to other writers' blog entries.
* Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal
in March 1999.
* Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in
July 1999 as an
easier alternative to maintaining a "news page" on a Web site, followed
by Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a personal diary
community.
* Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra
Labs)
launched blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February
2003)
Political impact
See also: Political blog
Since
2002, blogs have
gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking,
shaping, and spinning news stories. For the first time in the history
of modern journalism, the financial and political goals of U.S.-Israeli
relations are being analyzed in depth. The Iraq war saw bloggers taking
measured and passionate points of view that go beyond the traditional
left-right divide of the political spectrum.
An early
milestone in the rise in
importance of blogs came in 2002, when many bloggers focused on
comments by U.S. Senate
Majority
Leader
Trent Lott.[68] Senator Lott, at a party honoring U.S. Senator Strom
Thurmond, praised Senator Thurmond by suggesting that the United States
would have been better off had Thurmond been elected president. Lott's
critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial segregation, a
policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign. This view
was reinforced by documents and recorded interviews dug up by bloggers.
(See Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo.) Though Lott's comments were
made at a public event attended by the media, no major media
organizations reported on his controversial comments until after blogs
broke the story. Blogging helped to create a political crisis that
forced Lott to step down as majority leader.
Similarly, blogs were among
the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit: (television
journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes)
that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military
service record. Bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and
presented evidence and arguments in support of that view. Consequently,
CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques
(see Little Green Footballs). Many bloggers view this scandal as the
advent of blogs' acceptance by the mass media, both as a news source
and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.
The impact
of these stories gave
greater credibility to blogs as a medium of news dissemination. Though
often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in
bringing key information to public light, with mainstream media having
to follow their lead. More often, however, news blogs tend to react to
material already published by the mainstream media. Meanwhile, an
increasing number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of in-depth
analysis. (See Daniel Drezner, J. Bradford DeLong or Brad Setser.)
Mainstream popularity
By
2004, the role of blogs
became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news
services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and
opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political
candidates to express opinions on war and other issues and cemented
blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley Clark.) Even
politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party's
MP Tom Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.
In January
2005, Fortune magazine
listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter
Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason
Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.
Israel's was among the
first national governments to set up an official blog. Under David
Saranga, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs became active in
adopting Web 2.0 initiatives, including an official video blog and a
political blog. The Foreign Ministry also held a microblogging press
conference via Twitter about its war with Hamas, with Saranga answering
questions from the public in common text-messaging abbreviations during
a live worldwide press conference. The questions and answers were later
posted on IsraelPolitik, the country's official political blog.
The impact
of blogging upon the
mainstream media has also been acknowledged by governments. In 2009,
the presence of the American journalism industry had declined to the
point that several newspaper corporations were filing for bankruptcy,
resulting in less direct competition between newspapers within the same
circulation area. Discussion emerged as to whether the newspaper
industry would benefit from a stimulus package by the federal
government. President Barack Obama acknowledged the emerging influence
of blogging upon society by saying "if the direction of the news is all
blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious
attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting
is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of
mutual understanding”.
Blog
award
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A
Blog award is an award
for the best blog in a given category. Some blog awards are based on a
public vote and others are based on a fixed set of criteria applied by
a panel of judges.
Various
organizations have started
blog awards with varying degrees of success. Some have become defunct.
Process
Like usual
film or television
awarding committees, blog awards are started by a certain body, usually
composed of blog enthusiasts. Since blogging is an Internet activity,
most of the process are done online.
Nominees are usually
accepted from
anyone in the Internet given the one who nominates adhere to given
policies and procedures. The nominated websites, varying from
independent servers to provider hosted are scanned by a selected team
of judges.
The filtered nominees are
then announced online or by other means such as newspaper or radio
stations. Other bloggers or Internet users are given the opportunity to
vote for several categories such as Best Single Post, Best Blog Site,
Best Design, and others. The winners are announced in a ceremonial
night usually held in large venues and online.
There are
also blog awards
initiated by small groups of bloggers in certain locations. The
nomination and selection process is usually the same with major
awarding bodies but the awarding is usually less extravagant.
Major awards
Among the
major blog awards are
The Weblog Awards (Bloggies) , and the BOBs (Best of Blogs). The
bestower of the BOBs, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, describes
their awards as "the world’s largest international blog
competition". Awarded since 2004, the BOBs are selected by an
"international jury of independent journalists, media experts and blog
experts".
The The
Weblog Awards (Wizbang), have been canceled for 2010.
Minor awards
In
2007, the Greek Blog Awards were determined by public vote. Awards were
given to 12 blogs in different categories.
Some blog awards are
specific to a
particular topic such as The Photobloggies, others to a specific region
like the Search Maryland Top Blog Awards.
There's
also blog awards targeted
to people of various nationalities. Indibloggies, started in 2003, is
targeted at Indian Blogs. The Philippine Blog Awards is now on its
third year (2009) which recognizes Filipino blogging talent around the
world.
Another
Philippine award honoring
the best and inspiring Filipino Expatriates and Overseas Filipino
Worker's blogs and bloggers around the world is the Pinoy Expats/OFW
Blog Awards or PEBA
Another
series of awards given to
legal blogs are the Attorney.org Legal Blog Awards. The nominees are
broken down into categories such as Environmental and Land Use Law
Blogs, Criminal Law Blogs, Tax Law Blogs, and Divorce Law Blogs to name
a few. They also choose the National Top 100 which is a compilation of
the Top 100 blogs, regardless of category.
Defunct awards
The UK newspaper The
Guardian ran a Best British Blog competition in 2002 and another in
2003, but then stopped because of limited enthusiasm from the UK
blogging community and a few public boycotts.
Blog software
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
Weblog software (also
called blogging software or blogware) is software designed to simplify
the creation and maintenance of weblogs. As specialized content
management systems, weblog applications support the authoring, editing,
and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for
image management, web syndication, and moderation of posts and
comments.
Server models
Many
weblog applications
can be downloaded and installed on user systems. Some of them are
provided under a free-software or open-source licenses, allowing them
to be used, modified, and redistributed freely. Others are proprietary
software which must be licensed.
Other
weblog applications are
offered only through their developers' hosts, either free of charge or
for a fee. Services are typically limited to hosting of the blog
itself, but some services offer the option of using the hosted software
to update a blog published elsewhere.
Clients
Maintenance through the
Internet is a nearly universal feature of weblog software. This is
usually done through a browser-based interface, enabling authors to
create and update content on the site. Most software also supports the
use of external client software to update content using common APIs
such as the MetaWeblog API and the Atom Publishing Protocol. Third
party developers have created many such clients, allowing bloggers to
publish entries using desktop software rather than the web-based
interface. The WordPress website has an extensive list of clients that
support most APIs (not just WordPress). Examples include ecto and
MarsEdit.
List of Blogging Clients
Features
Post and comment management
All weblog software supports authoring, editing,
and publishing of entries in the following format.
* Title, the main title, or headline, of
the post.
* Body, main content of the post.
* Permalink, the URL of the full,
individual article.
* Post Date, date and time the post was
published.
Blog
entries can optionally include the following:
* Comments –
Comments allow readers to
discuss blog entries, correcting errors or otherwise expressing their
opinions on the post or the post's subject.
* Categories (or tags) –
indexes to subjects discussed by the entry
* Trackback and or pingback –
links to other sites that refer to the entry
Other features
Most
weblog applications
also have various linking and web syndication features. Web syndication
is usually offered in the form of RSS or Atom. This allows other
software (such as feed aggregators) to maintain a current summary of
the blog's content. Some services and organizations also offer extended
features to aid communication, such as the wiki capabilities in
Socialtext and Traction TeamPage.
Most
weblog applications support
English and many other languages. The user selects a language during
installation.
Post
moderation requires users to
register before commenting, or requires individual posts or comments to
be approved by a moderator or administrator before they appear in the
blog. Weblog applications use various user account systems that allow
readers to post comments to a particular blog. For instance, users with
Blogger accounts may comment on any Blogger blog. Other weblog
applications allow users to post content or comments only to blogs
where they have an account.
The
posting API varies
among different weblog applications. The typical interface is a form to
be filled out online, with a varying number of fields. Applications
such as Movable Type offer a greater number of form fields and choices
than applications such as Blogger. Some applications also have plugins
for Firefox that integrate into the browser's menus so that right
clicking on selected text on any given web page brings up a small
window that allows the user to post directly to their blog.
Most types
of blogware support
adding thumbnail images within blog posts. Photo blogging is a separate
genre of blogging that deals primarily with images.
Examples
A partial list of notable weblog software follows:
User hosted platforms
Software packages installed by weblog authors to
run on their own servers.
Free and open source software
These software packages are offered
as free and open source software:
* Pebble (Java-based)
* Apache Roller (Java-based)
* b2evolution (PHP/MySQL)
* blosxom (Perl)
* Dotclear (PHP)
* DotNetNuke (VB.NET/ASP.NET)
* Drupal (PHP)
* Elgg (PHP)
* Frog CMS (PHP)
* Habari (PHP)
* Jaws (PHP)
* Joomla! (PHP)
* LifeType (PHP)
* Livejournal (Perl)
* Movable Type (Perl)
* Nucleus CMS (PHP)
* PivotX (PHP)
* Sandbox (PHP)
* Serendipity (PHP)
* Slash (Perl)
* Subtext (C#/ASP.NET)
* Textpattern (PHP/MySQL)
* Thingamablog (Static web page, no need
for CGI, PHP or MySQL)
* Typo (Ruby on Rails)
* WordPress (PHP)
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Proprietary
software
These packages are under a proprietary software license.
They
may require the purchase of a license key to use them. The specific
licensing terms vary but some are free of charge for personal or
non-commercial use.
* Telligent Community
* ExpressionEngine
* Traction TeamPage
* Windows Live Writer
* IBM Lotus Connections
* IBM Lotus Quickr
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Developer-hosted platforms
Software services operated by the developer,
requiring no software installation by the weblog author:
* Blogger
* doomby
* Gandi
* Posterous
* LiveJournal
* Maneno
* Moxietype
* MySpace
* Open Diary
* Skyrock
* Tumblr
* TypePad
* Vox
* weBlog.com
* Windows Live Spaces
* Wordpress.com
* Xanga
* servertoday.com
Software used for top 20 blogs
The
top blogs as ranked by
Technorati use a mixture between third party software such as Wordpress
and that developed and maintained primarily by internal engineers, such
as the system used by Gizmodo.
|
Blog |
Software |
| 1 |
The
Huffington Post |
Movable
Type |
| 2 |
Gizmodo |
Gawker
bespoke software[2] |
| 3 |
TechCrunch |
Wordpress |
| 4 |
TMZ.com |
Unknown |
| 4 |
Engadget |
Unknown |
| 6 |
Mashable |
Wordpress |
| 7 |
The
Corner |
Same CMS
as National Review |
| 8 |
Boing
Boing |
Movable
Type |
| 9 |
Hot Air |
Wordpress |
| 9 |
Gawker |
Gawker
bespoke software[3] |
| 11 |
Think Progress |
Wordpress |
| 12 |
The Daily Dish |
Typepad |
| 13 |
The
Daily Beast |
|
| 13 |
Newsbusters |
Unknown |
| 15 |
CNN Political Ticker |
Unknown |
| 16 |
Ezra
Klein at Washington Post |
Unknown |
| 16 |
Breitbart.tv |
Unknown |
| 18 |
Big Government |
Wordpress |
| 19 |
ReadWriteWeb |
Moveable Type |
| 20 |
Matthew
Yglesias |
Wordpress |
| 20 |
Film |
Wordpress |
See also
* Comparison of content
management systems
* Blog search engines
* Blogskin
* BROG - (We)blog Research on Genre
project
* Citizen journalism
* Collaborative blog
* Customer engagement
* Dream blog
* Edublog
* Home and family blog
* Interactive journalism
* List of blogging terms
* List of blogs
* List of social networking websites
* Massively distributed collaboration
* Microblogs
* Sideblog
* Social blogging
* User-generated content
* Webmaster
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Blog Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of
personal thoughts and Web links.
In this section we are going to see
how a
blog can be useful for your business or in other how you can use the
blogs to promote your site and your business. You can use this widely
popular medium for promoting your business two ways.
1.Start your own blog and promote your site
through your business.
2. You can take advantage of existing blogs by posting your comments on
them and building backlinks to your site.
Information
Generally blog is a mixture of someone's
personal life as
well as what is going on on the web. A kind of hybrid diary type site.
There are many types of different blogs as there are many
different type of people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was come into existance.
When professional services like blogger and wordpress introduced to
general public as free to use service,the blog gain
popularity
among general public before that it was used by professionals and
journalists only. Another reasons for popularity of the blogs are
these services are free to use and the publishing of a blog
has
been automated and made extremely easy by these services. Now-a-days
many more such service have come into existence and any one can start
his or her blog without spending any money and as easily as typing on a
paper.
Blog is concise name for web log or weblog.
What Is Blogging?
Blogging is around for many years
but recently
become quite popular among general public. A Blog is precise form of
Web Log and is basically an online journal or diary. Anyone can set up
a blog either with a very little cost or with absolutely no cost at
all. A blog can be used for different purpos. Some blogger publish
blogs for fun and some publish to promote their business.
A blog can be use for.....
1) Updates Keep customers/clients up to date on
changes to your website.
2) Provide information about new product announcement and new
related websites
3) For reviewing a site or product
4) To keep track of your personal goals and plans
5) To keep track of your company's goals and plans.
6) As a stress Reliever Jot down your vents, gripes,
thoughts. Some also find general writing therapeutic.
7) For Search Engine Marketing
8) To make money with adsense & affiliate programs
9) To promote your site with content marketing
10) To promote your site through blog directories
11) To promote your site through RSS
12) To provide interactive site to your visitors.
and many more..........
How can you start your own blog
1) Using a free service such as Blogger
2) Using Blogger with your own domain name
3) WordPress free service
4) Installing wordpress on your own domain
5) Paid services such as Blog it
These are just a few popular example and
now-a-days many more free services are available.
How can you promote your blog
1) Submit your blog to blog directories
2) Link Exchange Place links on your website to your blog
and visa versa.
3) exchange links with relevant blogs.
4) Write article about your blog
5) Write article about others blog and supply free content
6) Banner Ads
7) SEO & SES
8) Through RSS
etc etc
You can allow your visitor to post comment on
your blog.
Most services have these features and can be a great tool to keep your
blog interactive between you and your readers. It's difficult keep in
touch with your readers/visitors/customers/clients because of all
theses spam filters. Blogs can be used for this communication purpose.
A customer can subscribed to RSS feeds and receive automatic updates to
his or her RSS reader.
What should you post on your Blog
This is the 1st question comes in the mind of
a
person thinking to start a blog. If you are new to this medium and
don't know what to post on your blog then I suggest you to visit some
blogs run by other bloggers and you will get idea about posting. You
can get the idea about a topic from other blog's content but do not
copy the content itself. There are many many topics and subjects about
which you can write on your blog. Generally choose the subject of your
interest so you have some knowledge and considerable interest and that
will make your writing easy.
The blog related to media are the most popular
ones and
perhaps remain the most popular ones in future. Whenever some event
occurs the search engines are flooded with searches regarding that
particular event because people are curious to know what happened and
why happened. If you run a media related blog and has good
quality content then your blog will be picked up quickly by search
engines but downside of running this type of blog is you have to be in
time to post important events regularly and keep a hawk's eye on media
news. There is a positive side of this blog is you will find content
and topics from news paper and television channels. Most media
companies and news papers run their on blog because the demand for news
paper is decreased and to reach masses net is the easy and affordable
solution. Journalists and reporters run his or her personal blog
because it makes them able to communicate with readers.
Another good subjects to start a
blog are
political issues, health issues and community issues which are very
important to people. people are became sensitive about their health so
most people want to know about general health issues and other thing
that can affect their health. Some people are very interested in
politics and they have their own opinion about every situation. They
want a platform to talked about their opinions and a blog related to
political issue is the best place as they can post their views and
opinions about current topics. Again as a political blogger you have to
remain updated about the politics. There are so many community issues
and so there are lots of to start a blog related to particular topics.
Community issues can be related to jobs, businesses or regulations and
laws.
In my opinion you should start a blog about something you really like
and enjoy. Naturally you have knowledge about the topics because you
liked them .Most important thing is you liking and enjoying what you
write and this motivate you to carry on your writing. Some people start
blogging about something they do not like at all and they find it hard
to continue blogging and in the end gave up. Why they have started a
blog about a subject which they themselves don't like?Because they
believe a blog should be on a popular topic to make it successful but
believe me it is a wrong belief. More you like the subject, more you
understand it and more you can write about the subject.
Start Blogging Why ?
Why anyone start blogging?Because blogging
allows
one to express themselves in a manner they find fit. The people
interested in writing about day to day life can start a personal blog
and can write about what is going on their life. There are thousand of
personal blogs where blogger s write about their personal life. It is
like a personal diary or journal which a blogger share it with his or
her. Moreover you can express your opinion about anything and share
that with your readers and most important aspect of blogging is blog
readers can post their on comment and participate and interact with the
content instead of just plain reading which keep them interested.
Blogging is the simplest and easiest way to publish your work and
moreover it is free and inter active so the reader can participate. You
do not require any html or coding knowledge to start a blog like a
website requires. Blogging is time saver unlike a website you can write
your post an publish it on your blog entire process takes only 5
minutes. Blogger and WordPress like free services have made it possible
for anyone.
I f you are operating a business or
selling
products,your blog can be used to bring more revenue and sales with
different ways. You can write reviews about your products and your
readers can comment about their own views and by posting reply to
comment you can make them more educated about your products. Your sales
letter has a limitation of format and limitation of room but on your
blog you can provide detailed information about your products. More
ever you receive feed back from your customers through comment so you
can modified or add new features to your product and make them more
useful for them. Search engines like fresh content and blog is the
medium where new content added regularly so blogs have a
higher
chance of ranking in search engines than a static website.
Marketing & Blog
There are many ways you can use your blog as a marketing
platform.
-Provide more information about your products
-Educate existing customers about particular features
-Use your blog for SEO & SES purpose
-Promote your site via your blog
-link Exchange with relevant blogs
-submitting blog to blog directories
-RSS feed submission
-RSS subscribers
-Receive feed back from readers about your products
7 Beginner’s Blogging Tips
Tip - 1 Blog about something you like
and enjoy
Tip - 2 Get Your Own Domain Name
You can start blogging w it free service
like
Blogger and WordPrees but with your own domain name,blog will
seem more professional. If you want to generate revenue through selling
ad space on your blog then this is must as many ad networks do not
accept blogs with sub domains.
Tip - 3 Useful Information
Provide useful and lattes information
Tip - 4 Update The Blog
Update your blog frequently,if possible regularly and ideally
everyday. If you don't update your blog often enough, your blog readers
will
move on to other blogs. There are too many blogs out there competing
for attention. Blog readers will go where they can get enough of what
they want.
Tip - 5 Comments
Read comments posted on your blog and post relevant replys
Tip - 6 Your Readers
Develop good relationship with your readers
Tip - 7 Multiple Sources
If you want to make good money from your blogging don't rely
on
a single source of income.Instead rely on multiple source.e.g.
-Google Adsense
-Adbrite
-CBTopads
-Amazon
-Ebay
-PayDotCome
-Your Own Products
-Products related to blogging
Blogs to Increase Traffic
1. To increase traffic your blog
should have relevant content
2. By relevant content I mean content written with a distinct
audience in mind.
3. SEO & SES
Think relevant keywords when
you post. Search engines, like Google and Yahoo, like keywords. The
more targeted your keywords, the better the chances of your
blog
ranking high in search results and free traffic for your blog. To
empathize the value of the key words in your content, make hot links
with targeted keywords or make the targeted keywords part of hot links.
4. Use tagging
Link your content
with appropriate
tags.This helps further the search engines and specially a major
resource for blog traffic,Technorati.
5. Submit your blog to blog directories
When you submit your blog to
these
directories, remember to add a clear description that will attract your
targeted audience to check your blog out
6.Build good relationship with your readers and you will
receive positive mouth publicity
7. Search engine love fresh content so to attract search
engine spider regularly post new content
8. Use Pinging :When you post new content ping all search
engines
and other relevant directories. You can use service like
: pingomatic.com
9. Submit RSS feeds to RSS directories.
10. Add podcasts to your own blog and submit podcast to
podcast directories
11. Add video cast to blog and videos to other video sharing sites
12. Create a squedo Lense about your blog
13. Write and submit articles about your blog
14. Use social book marking sites yourself & provide your
readers mens to add your blog to sicial book marking sites
15. Exchange links with similar blogs
16. Post comment on relevant blogs.
Participate in the
blogosphere actively.
Visit blogs relevant to your blog. Lleave thoughtful comments. Comments
will allow you to post your blog URL and your email address. If your
blog liked by other relevant bloggers,they will ad your blog url to
their blogroll. Blogroll is listing of other blogs and you should do
the same with adding other blog's url in your blogroll which is useful
for your readers. let other bloggers know that you added them.
17. Use social networking sites
18.Use twitter
19. Add your blog URL in e-mail signature
20. Use forums
21. Put your blog URL on your visiting card
22. Use special traffic exchange sites like........ blogexplosion,
blogazoo and blogclicker.Works like normal manual traffic exchange
sites.
[] Now as I said before you can use the blogging with
different
ways to promote and expand your business or website. Mainly are....
(1) Start your own Blog and get SEO
advantage and maintain relationship with customers by updating about
your site.
(2) There are many place on the net where you can
not
submit site but can submit your blog so more free traffic and free
advertising.
(3) You can start networking with similar popular
blogs in your niche.
(4) Post comment or write a guest post on high
rank blogging,SEO advantage + Free traffic and free advertising
(5) Monetize your blog and make money.
These should be main goals of any
person using
blogs.On the next page I have written about these each goal and listed
the free resources sites and free tools which you can use and easily
fulfill your goals.I have included 180 + free services with which you
can start your own blog at zero cost. I have included the blog
directories where you can submit your blog. I have included online
service and free tools with which you can easily find most popular,high
PR ranked similar blogs in your niche and start networking with similar
bloggers. I have included some high PR rank do follow blogs where you
can post your comment and also included free tools with which you can
find do follow blogs in your niche whenever you want. I have included
more then enough free resources to monetize your blog and increase the
revenue and value of your blog.
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