A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.Blogs 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 most early 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.
The term "blog" is a portmanteau, or, in other words, a blend of the words web and log (Web log). "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
The internet has been quite a developing phenomenon over the past few years & has started to divert down different pathways & is now not only seen as a large source of information but a place were you can socialise, chat, download & even share your views.
Blogs are an opportunity to interact with people who have the same views as you. Also information that is known by a member or participant of a particular blog can be shared, all in the interest of the other blog participants.When a blog gets more popular & developed it may turn into a wiki, where actual proven facts that are shared by all the blog participants can be entered.
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and online encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia.
Metro – Blogging Podcast
Overall I think blogging is a vital tool in the development of the internet as blogging as an activity has brought all different parts of the web together. It has included the information seekers in the web, the people who just want to express themselves in the form of media; music, video & even games. Mass interactivity has been made available while democratisation has been what the blog creators have been striding to achieve, the successful can go onto being wiki’s – a place where we can edit entries into an online encyclopaedia, quite something eh?
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and online encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia.
Metro – Blogging Podcast
Overall I think blogging is a vital tool in the development of the internet as blogging as an activity has brought all different parts of the web together. It has included the information seekers in the web, the people who just want to express themselves in the form of media; music, video & even games. Mass interactivity has been made available while democratisation has been what the blog creators have been striding to achieve, the successful can go onto being wiki’s – a place where we can edit entries into an online encyclopaedia, quite something eh?
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