A Blog A trucation
of weblog is a discussion or information websitr published on the World Wide
Web consisiting of discreate, often informal diary-style text entries( post) .
Posts are typically dispalyed in
reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at
the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single
individual, occasionally of a small group, and often coverd a single subject
or topic. In the 2010s, ''multiauthor blogs ''( MABs) emerged, featuring the
writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from
newspapers , other media outlet, universities, think tanks , advocany grups,
and similar institutions account for an icreaing quantity of blogs traffic.
The rise of Twitter and other ''microblogging'' system helps integrate MABs
and single -authors blogs into the news media . Blog can also be used as a
verb, meaning to maintain or ad content to a blog.
The emergence and
growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the adevent of web publishing
tools that faciliated the posting of content by non-technical users who did
not have much experience with HTML or computer progarmming. Previously, a
knowledge of such technologies with HTML and File Transfer Protocol had been
required to publish content on the Wb, and early Web users therfore
tended to be hackers and computer
enthusiasts. In the 2010s, the majority are interactive Web 2.0 websites,
aloowing visitors to leave online comments, and it is this interactivity that
distinguishes from other static websites. In that sense, blogging can be seen
as a from of social networking service. Indeed, bloggers not only produce
content to post on their blogs but also often build social relation with their
readers and other bloggers. However, there high-readership blogs which do not
allow comments.
Many blogs provide commentary on a particular
subject or topic, ranging from politics to sports. Others function as more
personal online diaries, and other function more as online brand advertising
of a particular individual or company.
A typical blog combines text , digital images, and links to other blogs, web
pages, and other medis ralated ti tips topic. The ability of readers to leave
publicly viewable comments, and interact with other commenters , is an
important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. However, blog owner or auther often
moderate and filter online comments to remove hate speech or other offensive
content. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art ( atr
blogs ) , photographs (photoblogs) ,
videos vdei blogs or ''vlogs'' music (MP3 blogs), nad audio (podcasts). In
education, blogs can be used as intructional resources. These blog are refferd
to as edublogs. Microblogging is another type of blogging, Featuring very
short posts.
'BLOG' and
"BLOGGING"" are loosely used for content creation and sharing
on social media, especially when the content is long-form and one craets and
shares content on regular basis. So, one could be maintaning a blog on
facebookor blogging on instagram.
On february
20,2014, there were over 156$ million public
blogs in existence. On February 20, 2014 , there were around 172
million Tumblr and 75.8 million Wordspress blogs in exstence worldwide.
According to critics and other does not offer public statistics. Technorati
lists. 1.3 million blogs as of February 22,2014.
HISTORY
The term ''weblog''
was coined by Jorn Barger On December
17,1997. The short from, Blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who
joikingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sideber of his
blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter , Evan Williams
at Pyra Labs used ''blog'' as both a noun and vrb (''ti blog,'' meaning ''to
edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog'') and devised the term '
blogger'' in conncction with Pyra Labs' Blogger product,leading to the
popularization of term .
Origins
Before blogging
became popular, digital communities took many form incliding Usenet,
commercial online service such as Genie , Byte Infoemation Exachange ( BIX)
and the ealry compuserve, e-mail lists, and bulletin Board System (BBS). In
the 1990s, Inetrnet forum software created runnning conversation with
''threads''. Threads are topical connection between meassage on a virtual
''corkboard''. From June 14, 1993, Mosaic communication Corporation maintain
their 'What's New'' List of new websites, updates daily and archived monthly.
The page was accessible by a special ''What New'' button in the Mosic web
browers.
The earliest
intance of acommerical blog was on the
first business to consumers Web site
craeted in 1995. by Ty, Inc., which featurd a blog in section called ''Online
Diary''. The entris were maintained by featured Beanie Babies that were voted
for monthly by Web site visitors.
The modern blog
evolved from the online diary , where people would keep a running account of the events in 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 recongnized as one of
the earlier blggers. As is Jerry Pournelle. Dave Winer's Scripting News is
also craetited with being one of the older and longer running weblogs.
The Australian Netguide maintained the
Daily Net News on their web aite from 1996. Daily Net News ran links and daily
reviews, mostly in Australia.
Another early blogs
was Wearable Wireless Webcame, an online shared diary of a
person's personall life combining text , digital video, and digital pictures
transmitted live from a wearable computer and Eye Tap device to a web site in
1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with llive video together with
was reffred to as sousveillam]nce, and such journals were also as evidence in
legal matters. Some early bloggers,
such as The Misanthropic Bitch, who began in 1997, actually referred to their
online presence as a zine, before the term blog entered common usage.
Technology
Early blogs were
simple manually updated components of common Websites. In 1995, the ''Online
Diary'' on the Ty, Inc. Web site was produced and updated manually before any
blogging programs were avalible. Posts
were made to appear in reverse chronological order by manually updating text
appearance of a live diary that
contained multiple newe entries per day. At the beginning of each new day, new
diary entries were manually coded into a new HTML fike, and the start of each
month, diary entries were archived into its own folder which contained a
separed HTML page for every day of the month. Then menus that contained links
o the most recent diary entry were updated manually throughout the site. This
text-basewd method of organizing thousand of files served as a springboard to
define blogging style that were captured by blogging software development
years later.
The evolution of
electronic and software tolls to facilitate the producation and maintenance of
Web article posted in reverse chronological order made the published process
feasible to a much larger and less technically-inclined population.
Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online published that
produced blogs we recognize today. For intance, the use of some sort browers
based software is now a typical aspect of ''blogging''. Blogd can be hosted by
dedicated blog hosting services, on regular web hosting serices, or run using
blog software.
Rise
in popularity
After a slow start, blogging rapidlt gained
in popularity. Blog usage apread 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 others writer's blog entries.
. Brad Fitzpatrick
stated Live Journal in march 1999.
. Andrew Smales
created Pites.com in july 199 as an easier alternative to maintaning a ''newas
page'' on a Web site, followed by Diary Land in September 1999, focusing more
on a personal diary community.
. Evan Wlliams and
Meg Hourihan ( Pyra Labs ) launched blogger.com in August 1999( purchased bi
Google in February 2003).
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