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History and Overview of Blogs
Origin of Blogs
In August 1999, Evan Williams in San Francisco figured out how to update his website by just typing text into a text box.
Normally, to update a website, you use an HTML editor, edit the text and add HTML formatting, use FTP to upload it, and the page is then available.
But his new method allowed him to open a webpage, type text into a text box, click Submit, and it was instantly available as a webpage.
This makes it easier to add content to websites without having to bother with HTML.
For example, Eleanor has a website at eleanor.com, where she wants to keep a diary of what she is up to.
.With a blog, she can open a webpage, add a few lines of text, and click Submit. The new text appears on her webpage, at the top of the page, as a new entry. Her webpage is thus a running diary.
.Eleanor can use any computer that has a web connection (at the library, at work, at internet cafes, at friends places, while traveling, and so on) and she can continue to update her blog.
.She can also update the blog via her cell phone with SMS (text messaging). With wireless PDA or a Blackberry, she can update her website while sitting in a coffeehouse. She can be on a train and use a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera to send photos to her blog. Blogs allow her to update the content from anywhere. At high tech conferences, as the speakers are presenting, people in the audience use their wireless PDAs and laptops to update their blogs on the speakers' points.
.Eleanor can also create a group blog and invite several friends to write the blog. She can also make it open, so anyone can write to the blog.
.Blogs allow anyone to quickly post text and images to the Web without any technical knowledge. This opens the web to more publishing and distribution of information.
Jorn Barger coined the term weblog in December 1997 for his Robot Wisdom Weblog, which still exists at robotwisdom.com.
.The first hand-made blogs showed up in early 1999. The first use of "blog" also appeared.
.In August 1999, Evan Williams (at evhead.com) released what was to become blogger.com.
.In January 2003, blogger.com reached one million users.
.In February 2003, Google.com bought Pyra, the makers of blogger.com
I should also mention several more people who have been significant in developing blogs. Dave Winer created the Radio Userland blog tool radio.userland.com. Meg Hourihan megnut.com is the co-founder of Pyra (blogger.com) and she got together the funds that kept the company alive.
Origin of the word Blog
If a diary on the website is a log entry on a website, then it is a web log. This was shortened to weblog, which soon became blog.
There's also the verb, as in "she was blogging all morning."
How do I pronounce blog?
Blog rhymes with "dog" or "blob". It's one word. It's not pronounced "bee-log."
Are there other silly words?
Blogroll: A blogster's collection of links to her favorite blogs which she reads. This is usually on her blog page.
Moblogging: Mobile blogging ("MoBlogging") is the ability to update blogs while on the move by using wireless PDAs, cellphones, or Bluetooth-enabled digital cameras.
Blogosphere: the interconnected network of blogs. Blogs often refer to each other.
Blogeoise, as in the bourgeois. "Those who make blogs." This is similar to digirati (the digital literati, but nobody says that.)
What is the blog community?
A subculture has sprung up around blogging. Groups of people maintain blogs and cite each other in their blogs. They even visit each other.
Aren't blogs just diaries?
Okay, yes, the vast majority of blogs are self-centered and trivial. It's like reading someone's diary. Here's a quote from a blog:
."yeah, so today we went to Samba Brazil for lunch, and there was a newer girl there. I ordered the nachos (which were not very good this time) like I usually do and requested no sour cream. She was like "that's odd" and did this annoying giggle..."
But there's more to blogs. The advanced blog tools are in effect content management and distribution tools. These can be used for business.
Blogs can also be private
Blogs aren't just public. There are also private blogs. These can be internal newsletters for a family, a group of friends, a school class, a project team, and so on. They can share daily information, such as major family events, like new babies, updates on an upcoming wedding or get-together, or updates on an illness in the family.
.When you set up the blog, you can select whether it will be publicly available or invitation-only. If you set it up at your website, you can choose who you give the URL, and if you know how, you can also set up a password-protected section for it.
.You can also use blog tools as a completely private diary. When you set it up, select that it will be a private blog and then tell no one about it. You can use it to jot ideas, notes, and so on. It automatically adds a date and time stamp to each entry.
Group Blogs
Most blogs are written by one person, but there can be more authors. The advanced blog tools allow multiple contributors. Five or six people can contribute and create a group blog. It can be either a group of people, or it can be open to anyone. This allows collaborative publishing.
But what exactly is a blog?
There's two parts to a blog: the software and the resulting text on your webpage. Would you like to see what these look like?
The blog editor (the software)
The editor is what you use to write the blog's text. You sign up at (for example) blogger.com, fill out a few pages of questions, and that creates a blog account for you. You then get a login and password which lets you use a blog editor (this editor appears as a webpage at blogger.com).
The blog editor has a text box in which you type in your text for your blog (just under New Post in the illustration). You click Post & Publish (at the upper right corner) and it gets added to your webpage. The text appears at the top of your blog page (see the next illustration.) The time and date is automatically added. The previous postings are listed in the bottom half of the editor page. You can always go back and edit a previous posting. You can also delete it.
The blog (the results)
When you click Post & Publish, your entry is now visible to the world at your blog webpage. Everyone can read what you wrote in your blog.
History and Overview of Blogs
Origin of Blogs
In August 1999, Evan Williams in San Francisco figured out how to update his website by just typing text into a text box.
Normally, to update a website, you use an HTML editor, edit the text and add HTML formatting, use FTP to upload it, and the page is then available.
But his new method allowed him to open a webpage, type text into a text box, click Submit, and it was instantly available as a webpage.
This makes it easier to add content to websites without having to bother with HTML.
For example, Eleanor has a website at eleanor.com, where she wants to keep a diary of what she is up to.
.With a blog, she can open a webpage, add a few lines of text, and click Submit. The new text appears on her webpage, at the top of the page, as a new entry. Her webpage is thus a running diary.
.Eleanor can use any computer that has a web connection (at the library, at work, at internet cafes, at friends places, while traveling, and so on) and she can continue to update her blog.
.She can also update the blog via her cell phone with SMS (text messaging). With wireless PDA or a Blackberry, she can update her website while sitting in a coffeehouse. She can be on a train and use a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera to send photos to her blog. Blogs allow her to update the content from anywhere. At high tech conferences, as the speakers are presenting, people in the audience use their wireless PDAs and laptops to update their blogs on the speakers' points.
.Eleanor can also create a group blog and invite several friends to write the blog. She can also make it open, so anyone can write to the blog.
.Blogs allow anyone to quickly post text and images to the Web without any technical knowledge. This opens the web to more publishing and distribution of information.
Jorn Barger coined the term weblog in December 1997 for his Robot Wisdom Weblog, which still exists at robotwisdom.com.
.The first hand-made blogs showed up in early 1999. The first use of "blog" also appeared.
.In August 1999, Evan Williams (at evhead.com) released what was to become blogger.com.
.In January 2003, blogger.com reached one million users.
.In February 2003, Google.com bought Pyra, the makers of blogger.com
I should also mention several more people who have been significant in developing blogs. Dave Winer created the Radio Userland blog tool radio.userland.com. Meg Hourihan megnut.com is the co-founder of Pyra (blogger.com) and she got together the funds that kept the company alive.
Origin of the word Blog
If a diary on the website is a log entry on a website, then it is a web log. This was shortened to weblog, which soon became blog.
There's also the verb, as in "she was blogging all morning."
How do I pronounce blog?
Blog rhymes with "dog" or "blob". It's one word. It's not pronounced "bee-log."
Are there other silly words?
Blogroll: A blogster's collection of links to her favorite blogs which she reads. This is usually on her blog page.
Moblogging: Mobile blogging ("MoBlogging") is the ability to update blogs while on the move by using wireless PDAs, cellphones, or Bluetooth-enabled digital cameras.
Blogosphere: the interconnected network of blogs. Blogs often refer to each other.
Blogeoise, as in the bourgeois. "Those who make blogs." This is similar to digirati (the digital literati, but nobody says that.)
What is the blog community?
A subculture has sprung up around blogging. Groups of people maintain blogs and cite each other in their blogs. They even visit each other.
Aren't blogs just diaries?
Okay, yes, the vast majority of blogs are self-centered and trivial. It's like reading someone's diary. Here's a quote from a blog:
."yeah, so today we went to Samba Brazil for lunch, and there was a newer girl there. I ordered the nachos (which were not very good this time) like I usually do and requested no sour cream. She was like "that's odd" and did this annoying giggle..."
But there's more to blogs. The advanced blog tools are in effect content management and distribution tools. These can be used for business.
Blogs can also be private
Blogs aren't just public. There are also private blogs. These can be internal newsletters for a family, a group of friends, a school class, a project team, and so on. They can share daily information, such as major family events, like new babies, updates on an upcoming wedding or get-together, or updates on an illness in the family.
.When you set up the blog, you can select whether it will be publicly available or invitation-only. If you set it up at your website, you can choose who you give the URL, and if you know how, you can also set up a password-protected section for it.
.You can also use blog tools as a completely private diary. When you set it up, select that it will be a private blog and then tell no one about it. You can use it to jot ideas, notes, and so on. It automatically adds a date and time stamp to each entry.
Group Blogs
Most blogs are written by one person, but there can be more authors. The advanced blog tools allow multiple contributors. Five or six people can contribute and create a group blog. It can be either a group of people, or it can be open to anyone. This allows collaborative publishing.
But what exactly is a blog?
There's two parts to a blog: the software and the resulting text on your webpage. Would you like to see what these look like?
The blog editor (the software)
The editor is what you use to write the blog's text. You sign up at (for example) blogger.com, fill out a few pages of questions, and that creates a blog account for you. You then get a login and password which lets you use a blog editor (this editor appears as a webpage at blogger.com).
The blog editor has a text box in which you type in your text for your blog (just under New Post in the illustration). You click Post & Publish (at the upper right corner) and it gets added to your webpage. The text appears at the top of your blog page (see the next illustration.) The time and date is automatically added. The previous postings are listed in the bottom half of the editor page. You can always go back and edit a previous posting. You can also delete it.
The blog (the results)
When you click Post & Publish, your entry is now visible to the world at your blog webpage. Everyone can read what you wrote in your blog.
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