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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)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
What is a Web log (blog)?
• Internet concepts– Applications (blogs)– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation
A typical 2-column blog post
Post title and date
Footer
Post body Additionalinformation
A
B
E
D
C
F
G
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 post footer
AA
B CD
E
F
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
Comment moderation, a necessary bother
“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
The long tail
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)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
