Web101 - Week 5, introduced me to an in-depth view of blogs and blogging.
Types of blogs:
Personal - Original form, often online diary. Often focus on specific subject of interest to the author
Micro - short posts (like twitter)
Corporate - keeping customers up to date with internal developments. e.g. - The Facebook Blog, googleblog, Direct2Dell
Photoblogs - like flickr
Podcasts -Audio file style blogs
Here come my lecture notes - I will try and translate them to make sense!
Media perspectives on blogging....examples show
: age/generation gap
: bloggers may not actually have all that much to say
: too easy to have a blog that in turn forms suspicion
Blogging has been said to be the poster child for Web 2.0
Readings for blogging - very important Rebecca Blood late 1990's as blogs gaining strength.
Blogging platform eg: Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal
Blogging terminology
Blogpost - Unique entry
Comment/s - ability for interaction
BlogRoll - sidebar, list of other blogs
Permalink - Permanent link to blogpost
Trackback
Theme (or skin) - with CSS (cascading style sheets)
Feed - RSS
Pocasts, Vlogs - media specific blogs
Technorati - approx 200 million blogs
What were blogs about originally?
Political, media events drive bloggers, tsunami, US election, hurricane katrina
2006 - more japanese language blogs than english
2006 - Time magazine person of the year YOU, touching on creation of media by us. User generated content.
Clay Shirky - Here comes everybody
Rebecca Blood - early influential blogger
Salam Pax - Bagdad Blogger
Jill Walker-Rettberg - Blogging (2008) - READ!
Blogs and/as/or Journalism
2004 - up until 2004 no images of US military service personal in coffins. A photographer blog thememoryhole.org posted images of coffins with the flag draped over them. Within a week the New York times had picked up the images and they were re-blogged across the globe.
2005 - London Bombings. 2 MOST significant images were taken by individuals on their mobile phones.
Citizen Journalists to have a look at:
dailykos.com (US, centre left)
larvartusprodeo.net (Aus, old left style)
Blogs - examine, refine & filter mainstream media 'gatewatching'. Citizen journalism shows return of the local reporter
Steven Johnson - 2006 blog post - 5 points about Blogging & Journalism
Connect to 5 blogs via RSS: I chose
- Bluebird Vintage
- The Little Mumma
- Liebe Bluhm
- TJ on Illustrations
- The Thriftshop Romantic
Oh man!! I have so many notes! I truly hop this helps me with Assignment Four!.....
Next up - Wiki's
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