BLOGS
Blog is short for weblog.
A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site. They are FREE
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site.
Blogs can be of ANYTHING: politics, sex, baseball, haikus, and car repair.
Fresh and totally biased.
People can speak up and say whatever they want without being judged. Every day people add stuff.
Not everything is bad, some are brilliant.
They don’t pretend to be neutral.
No pressure of advertising.
Examples: justanothersoldier.com , dear_raed.blogspot.com
Can develop rumors
Places to look for blogs: blogsearch.google.com, technorati.com, blogdigger.com, icerocket.com
China is very strict controlling internet. You must be register in order to have a blog, too much regulations and laws. Some bloggers are arrested.
UK has also many laws controlling blogs.
People are developing new technologies against censorship.
China is going step by step
Most organizations have no policies against blogs.
It is possible to track web sites, and blogs like in the case of the Danish cartoons against Muhammad. It was rude for the Muslims, it create huge problems.
Role of blogs sometimes are to criticize and attack. People have lost their jobs because of rumors placed in blogs.
Not all blogs are bad but people must learn which to read.
Blog is short for weblog.
A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site. They are FREE
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site.
Blogs can be of ANYTHING: politics, sex, baseball, haikus, and car repair.
Fresh and totally biased.
People can speak up and say whatever they want without being judged. Every day people add stuff.
Not everything is bad, some are brilliant.
They don’t pretend to be neutral.
No pressure of advertising.
Examples: justanothersoldier.com , dear_raed.blogspot.com
Can develop rumors
Places to look for blogs: blogsearch.google.com, technorati.com, blogdigger.com, icerocket.com
China is very strict controlling internet. You must be register in order to have a blog, too much regulations and laws. Some bloggers are arrested.
UK has also many laws controlling blogs.
People are developing new technologies against censorship.
China is going step by step
Most organizations have no policies against blogs.
It is possible to track web sites, and blogs like in the case of the Danish cartoons against Muhammad. It was rude for the Muslims, it create huge problems.
Role of blogs sometimes are to criticize and attack. People have lost their jobs because of rumors placed in blogs.
Not all blogs are bad but people must learn which to read.
