Post on 20-Dec-2015
What is a Web log (blog)?
Skills: reading and searching a blog
IT concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, wire-frame diagram, permalink, tag (label), long tail, captcha (anti spam)
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What is a Web log (blog)?
• Internet concepts– Applications (blogs)– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation
Blog post key
A: Search all blog postsB: Title and date of the posts in reverse chronological orderC: Text to speech reading of the postD: Body of the postE: Subscribe by email or RSSF: Links to other Web sitesG: Get the post in PDF format
Click on the title (B) for a permalink
Every blog has a URL. For example, the URL of our class blog is:
http://cis471.blogspot.com
Every post within a blog has its own URL, its permalink. For example, I wrote a post on the low cost of connectivity in Stockholm and other cities. The permalink URL for that individual post is:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html
Wait – what is a permalink again?
Blog footer key
A: Click on images to download and enlarge them
B: Permalink – a link to this particular post
C: Comments – read and leave comments
D: Links to blog posts that link to this one
E: Labels (tags) assigned to this post
F: Labels (tags) used on this blog
Blogs are mostly one-to-many, but …
•There may be several authors
•Readers can comment
A captcha
For example:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html
“news that appeals to a high number of small audiences”
Technorati had indexed 133,000,000 blogs as of January 2010
Just before the end of the video, he characterizes blogs as providing