Introduction to Blog
10/19/2009
NGA INTRODUCTION TO BLOG
A Beginner’s Guide | Chiara Zanotto, Carrie Wang, Kathie Shi
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Table of Contents
Attribution ................................................................................................................................ 3
Our Contribution ................................................................................................................... 3
Wikipeda ............................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.4
Creative Commons ................................................................................................................ 4
Blog ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Types ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Personal blogs ....................................................................................................................... 6
Corporate and organizational blogs...................................................................................... 6
By genre ................................................................................................................................ 6
By media type ....................................................................................................................... 6
By device ............................................................................................................................... 7
Community and cataloging ....................................................................................................... 8
The Blogosphere ................................................................................................................... 8
Blog search engines .............................................................................................................. 8
Blogging communities and directories ................................................................................. 8
Blogging and advertising ....................................................................................................... 8
Popularity .................................................................................................................................. 9
Blurring with the mass media ................................................................................................. 10
Legal and social consequences ............................................................................................... 11
Defamation or liability ........................................................................................................ 11
Employment ........................................................................................................................ 12
Political dangers .................................................................................................................. 13
Personal safety.................................................................................................................... 14
History ..................................................................................................................................... 15
Origins ................................................................................................................................. 15
Rise in popularity ................................................................................................................ 15
Political impact.................................................................................................................... 16
Mainstream popularity ....................................................................................................... 17
Resources ................................................................................................................................ 18
Index ....................................................................................................................................... 19
References .............................................................................................................................. 20
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Attribution
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Our Contribution
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopaedia project based mostly on
anonymous contributions. The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type
of collaborative Web site) and encyclopaedia. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international (and mostly anonymous) group of
volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles.
There are no requirements to provide one’s real name when contributing; rather, each
writer’s privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its
creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites,
attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active
contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of
today, there are 3,062,069 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors
from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of
new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopaedia. (See also:
Wikipedia: Statistics.)
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of
creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has
released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses
allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for
the benefit of recipients or other creators
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Blog
A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an
individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such
as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog"
can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more
personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web
pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an
interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual,
although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photo blog), videos (Video blogging),
music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro blogging is another type of blogging,
featuring very short posts.
As of December 2007, blog search engine Technocratic was tracking more than 112 million
blogs. [2]
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Types
There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in
the way that content is delivered or written.
Personal blogs
The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most
common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is
never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate;
they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality.
Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly
garner an extensive following. A type of personal blog is referred to as "micro blogging,"
which is extremely detailed blogging as it seeks to capture a moment in time. Sites, such as
Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and
family and are much faster than e-mailing or writing.
Corporate and organizational blogs
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used
internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for
marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs. Similar blogs for
clubs and societies are called club blogs, group blogs, or by similar names; typical use is to
inform members and other interested parties of club and member activities.
By genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs (also known as
travelers), house blogs,[3][4] fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs,
classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blows) or dream
logs. Two common types of genre blogs are art blogs and music blogs. A blog featuring
discussions especially about home and family is not uncommonly called a mom blog.
[5][6][7][8][9] While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of
spamming is known as a Slog.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a log, one comprising links is called a link log, a site
containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketch blog or one comprising photos is called a
photo blog. [10] Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumble logs.
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Blogs that are written on typewriters and then scanned are called typecast or typecast
blogs; see typecasting (blogging).
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlox.
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a
mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a mob log.[11] One early blog was
Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining
text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and Eye Tap device to a
web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was
referred to as surveillance. Such journals have been used as evidence in legal matters.
[Citation needed]
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Community and cataloguing
The Blogosphere
The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the
internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through
logrolls, comments, link backs (runbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and back links.
Discussions "in the blogosphere" are occasionally used by the media as a gauge of public
opinion on various issues. Because new, untapped communities of bloggers can emerge in
the space of a few years, Internet marketers pay close attention to "trends in the
blogosphere". [12]
Blog search engines
Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents, such as Blog lines, Blog Scope,
and Technocratic. Technocratic, which is among the most popular blog search engines,
provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog
postings [13]. The research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search,
by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the
blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects like Blog Scope.[[[Wikipedia:[citation
needed]|[citation needed]]]]
Blogging communities and directories
Several online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other
bloggers, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog [14]. Interest-specific blogging platforms are
also available. For instance, Bolster has a sizable community of political bloggers among its
members.
Blogging and advertising
It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or
to promote the blogger's favourite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to
"fake blogs" in which a company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote a
product.
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Popularity
Researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are
essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity through
affiliation (i.e. logroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that
while it takes time for a blog to become popular through logrolls, permalinks can boost
popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than
logrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it
valuable or noteworthy in specific cases. [16]
The blogged project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web
and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social properties. It
gathered this information for over 4 years, and autonomously tracked the most contagious
information spreading in the blog community, ranking it by regency and popularity. It can
therefore be considered the first instantiation of a meme tracker. The project is no longer
active, but a similar function is now served by tailrank.com.
Blogs are given rankings by Technocratic based on the number of incoming links and Alexi
Internet based on the Web hits of Alexi Toolbar users. In August 2006, Technocratic found
that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei.[17]
Chinese media Xinhua reported that this blog received more than 50 million page views,
claiming it to be the most popular blog in the world.[18] Technocratic rated Boing Boing to
be the most-read group-written blog.[17]
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Blurring with the mass media
Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journalism; differentiate
themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working
through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around
the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers
respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible
news. Bloggers and other contributors to user-generated content are behind Time magazine
naming their 2006 person of the year as "you".
Many mainstream journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs — well over 300, according
to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list. The first known use of a blog on a news site was in August
1998, when Jonathan Dube of The Charlotte Observer published one chronicling Hurricane
Bonnie. [19]
Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have
appeared on radio and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Artois),
Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily Kos), Alex Steffen
(Worldchanging) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette). In counterpoint, Hugh Hewitt exemplifies a
mass-media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old
media" by being an influential blogger. Equally many established authors, for example Mitzi
Szereto have started using Blogs to not only update fans on their current works but also to
expand into new areas of writing.
Blogs have also had an influence on minority languages, bringing together scattered
speakers and learners; this is particularly so with blogs in Gaelic languages. Minority
language publishing (which may lack economic feasibility) can find its audience through
inexpensive blogging.
There are many examples of bloggers who have published books based on their blogs, e.g.,
Salam Pax, Ellen Simonetti, Jessica Cutler, ScrappleFace. Blog-based books have been given
the name blook. A prize for the best blog-based book was initiated in 2005, [20] the Lulu
Blooker Prize. [21] However, success has been elusive offline, with many of these books not
selling as well as their blogs. Only blogger Tucker Max made the New York Times Bestseller
List. [22] The book based on Julie Powell's blog "The Julie/Julia Project" was made into the
film Julie & Julia, apparently the first to do so.
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Legal and social consequences
Blogging can result in a range of legal liabilities and other unforeseen consequences.
Defamation or liability
Several cases have been brought before the national courts against bloggers concerning
issues of defamation or liability. U.S. payouts related to blogging totalled $17.4 million by
2009; in some cases these have been covered by umbrella insurance. [23] The courts have
returned with mixed verdicts. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in general, are immune from
liability for information that originates with third parties (U.S. Communications Decency Act
and the EU Directive 2000/31/EC).
In Doe v. Cahill, the Delaware Supreme Court held that stringent standards had to be met to
unmask the anonymous posts of bloggers and also took the unusual step of dismissing the
libel case itself (as unfounded under American libel law) rather than referring it back to the
trial court for reconsideration. [24] In a bizarre twist, the Cahills were able to obtain the
identity of John Doe, who turned out to be the person they suspected: the town's mayor,
Councilman Cahill's political rival. The Cahills amended their original complaint, and the
mayor settled the case rather than going to trial.
In January 2007, two prominent Malaysian political bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan,
were sued by pro-government newspaper, The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad,
Kalimullah bin Masheerul Hassan, Hishamuddin bin Aun and Brenden John a/l John Pereira
over an alleged defamation. The plaintiff was supported by the Malaysian government. [25]
Following the suit, the Malaysian government proposed to "register" all bloggers in Malaysia
in order to better control parties against their interest. [26] This is the first such legal case
against bloggers in the country.
In the United States, blogger Aaron Wall was sued by Traffic Power for defamation and
publication of trade secrets in 2005. [27] According to Wired Magazine, Traffic Power had
been "banned from Google for allegedly rigging search engine results."[28] Wall and other
"white hat" search engine optimization consultants had exposed Traffic Power in what they
claim was an effort to protect the public. The case was watched by many bloggers because it
addressed the murky legal question of who is liable for comments posted on blogs. [29] The
case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, and Traffic Power failed to appeal within
the allowed time.
In 2009, a controversial and landmark decision by The Hon. Mr Justice Eady refused to grant
an order to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton.
In 2009, NDTV issued a legal notice to Indian blogger Chetan Kunte for "abusive free speech"
regarding a blog post criticizing their coverage of the Mumbai attacks.[35] The blogger
unconditionally withdrew his post, replacing it with legal undertaking and an admission that
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his post had been "defamatory and untrue" which resulted in several Indian bloggers
criticizing NDTV for trying to silence critics.
Employment
Employees who blog about elements of their place of employment raise the issue of
employee branding, since their activities can begin to affect the brand recognition of their
employer. In general, attempts by employee bloggers to protect themselves by maintaining
anonymity have proved ineffective.
In late 2004, Ellen Simonetti was fired for what was deemed by her employer, Delta Air
Lines, to be inappropriate material on her blog. She subsequently wrote a book based on
her blog. Delta Air Lines fired flight attendant Ellen Simonetti because she posted
photographs of herself in uniform on an airplane and because of comments posted on her
blog "Queen of Sky: Diary of a Flight Attendant" which the employer deemed
inappropriate.[38][39] This case highlighted the issue of personal blogging and freedom of
expression vs. employer rights and responsibilities, and so it received wide media attention.
Simonetti took legal action against the airline for "wrongful termination, defamation of
character and lost future wages".[40] the suit was postponed while Delta was in bankruptcy
proceedings (court docket).
In early 2006, Erik Ringmar, a tenured senior lecturer at the London School of Economics,
was ordered by the convenor of his department to "take down and destroy" his blog in
which he discussed the quality of education at the school.[41]
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was fined during the 2006 NBA playoffs for
criticizing NBA officials on the court and in his blog.[42]
Mark Jen was terminated in 2005 after 10 days of employment as an Assistant Product
Manager at Google for discussing corporate secrets on his personal blog, then called 99zeros
and hosted on the Google-owned Blogger service.[43] He blogged about unreleased
products and company finances a week before the company's earnings announcement. He
was fired two days after he complied with his employer's request to remove the sensitive
material from his blog.[44]
In India, blogger Gaurav Sabnis resigned from IBM after his posts exposing the false claims
of a management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to burn their IBM
laptops as a sign of protest against him.[45]
Jessica Cutler, aka "The Washingtonienne", blogged about her sex life while employed as a
congressional assistant. After the blog was discovered and she was fired,[46] she wrote a
novel based on her experiences and blog: The Washingtonienne: A Novel. Cutler is presently
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being sued by one of her former lovers in a case that could establish the extent to which
bloggers are obligated to protect the privacy of their real life associates.[47]
Catherine Sanderson, a.k.a. Petite Anglaise, lost her job in Paris at a British accountancy firm
because of blogging.[48] Although given in the blog in a fairly anonymous manner, some of
the descriptions of the firm and some of its people were less than flattering. Sanderson later
won a compensation claim case against the British firm, however.[49]
On the other hand, Penelope Trunk wrote an upbeat article in the Boston Globe back in
2006, entitled "Blogs 'essential' to a good career". She was one of the first journalists to
point out that a large portion of bloggers are professionals and that a well-written blog can
help attract employers.
Political dangers
Blogging can sometimes have unforeseen consequences in politically sensitive areas. Blogs
are much harder to control than broadcast or even print media. As a result, totalitarian and
authoritarian regimes often seek to suppress blogs and/or to punish those who maintain
them.
In Singapore, two ethnic Chinese were imprisoned under the country’s anti-sedition law for
posting anti-Muslim remarks in their blogs.[50]
Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer was charged with insulting the Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarak and an Islamic institution through his blog. It is the first time in the history of Egypt
that a blogger was prosecuted. After a brief trial session that took place in Alexandria, the
blogger was found guilty and sentenced to prison terms of three years for insulting Islam
and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mubarak.[51]
Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for anti-government
writings in his blog. Monem is a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
After expressing opinions in his personal blog about the state of the Sudanese armed forces,
Jan Pronk, United Nations Special Representative for the Sudan, was given three days notice
to leave Sudan. The Sudanese army had demanded his deportation.
In Myanmar, Nay Phone Latt, a blogger, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a
cartoon critical of head of state Than Shwe.
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Personal safety
See also: cyberstalking and Internet homicide
One consequence of blogging is the possibility of attacks or threats against the blogger,
sometimes without apparent reason. Kathy Sierra, author of the innocuous blog Creating
Passionate Users, was the target of such vicious threats and misogynistic insults that she
cancelled her keynote speech at a technology conference in San Diego, fearing for her
safety.[56] While a blogger's anonymity is often tenuous, Internet trolls who would attack a
blogger with threats or insults can be emboldened by anonymity. Sierra and supporters
initiated an online discussion aimed at countering abusive online behaviour[57] and
developed a blogger's code of conduct.
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History
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[58] on 17 December 1997. The short form,
"blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase
we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[59][60][61] Shortly
thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog,"
meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger"
in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.
Origins
Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet,
commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists[63]
and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx,
created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between
messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running
account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or
journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore
College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[64] as is Jerry
Pournelle.[citation needed] Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of
the oldest and longest running weblogs.[65][66] Another early blog was Wearable Wireless
Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and
pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in
1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was
referred to as surveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.
Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the
evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in
reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less
technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that
produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based
software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog
hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services.
Rise in popularity
After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity. Blog usage spread during 1999 and
the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first
hosted blog tools:
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Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of
online diaries. Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog
community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries.
Brad Fitzpatrick started Live Journal in March 1999.
Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July 1999 as an easier alternative to maintaining a
"news page" on a Web site, followed by Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a
personal diary community.
Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched blogger.com in August 1999
(purchased by Google in February 2003)
Political impact
Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking,
shaping, and spinning news stories. For the first time in the history of modern journalism,
the financial and political goals of U.S.-Israeli relations are being analyzed in depth.[68] The
Iraq war saw bloggers taking measured and passionate points of view that go beyond the
traditional left-right divide of the political spectrum.
On 6 December 2002, Josh Marshall's talkingpointsmemo.com blog called attention to U.S.
Senator Lott's comments regarding Senator Thurmond. Senator Lott was eventually to
resign over the matter. An early milestone in the rise in importance of blogs came in 2002,
when many bloggers focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.[68]
Senator Lott, at a party honouring U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, praised Senator Thurmond
by suggesting that the United States would have been better off had Thurmond been
elected president. Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial segregation,
a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign. This view was reinforced by
documents and recorded interviews dug up by bloggers. (See Josh Marshall's Talking Points
Memo.) Though Lott's comments were made at a public event attended by the media, no
major media organizations reported on his controversial comments until after blogs broke
the story. Blogging helped to create a political crisis that forced Lott to step down as
majority leader.
Similarly, blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit:
(television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that
conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record. Bloggers
declared the documents to be forgeries and presented evidence and arguments in support
of that view. Consequently, CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting
techniques (see Little Green Footballs). Many bloggers view this scandal as the advent of
blogs' acceptance by the mass media, both as a news source and opinion and as means of
applying political pressure.
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The impact of these stories gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of news
dissemination. Though often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in
bringing key information to public light, with mainstream media having to follow their lead.
More often, however, news blogs tend to react to material already published by the
mainstream media. Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts blogged, making blogs a
source of in-depth analysis. (See Daniel Drezner, J. Bradford DeLong or Brad Setser.)
Mainstream popularity
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(July 2008)
By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news
services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming.
Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war
and other issues and cemented blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley
Clark.) Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party's MP Tom
Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.
In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not
ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman,
Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.
Israel's was among the first national governments to set up an official blog.[69] Under David
Saranga, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs became active in adopting Web 2.0 initiatives,
including an official video blog[69] and a political blog.[70] The Foreign Ministry also held a
microblogging press conference via Twitter about its war with Hamas, with Saranga
answering questions from the public in common text-messaging abbreviations during a live
worldwide press conference.[71] The questions and answers were later posted on
IsraelPolitik, the country's official political blog.[72]
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Resources
Here is a list what we feel are the top websites to help new user to get blog started.
Top Web Resources Sources URL
Weblogs: A History Rebeccablood.net http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
And Perspective
Time magazine Time.com http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993832-3,00.html
Pittsburgh Post- post-gazette.com http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07304/829747-51.stm
Gazette
The Independent Independent .co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-drooling-minutiae-of-
childhood-revealed-for-all-to-see-as-mommy-blogs-come-of-age-485573.html
What is a Photoblog? wiki http://wiki.photoblogs.org/wiki/What_is_a_Photoblog
Blogging goes mobile BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2783951.stm
Government plans to Rsf.org http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21606
force bloggers to
register
Blog death threats BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm
spark debate
After 10 Years of Weird.com http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/12/blog_anniversary
Blogs, the Future's
Brighter Than Ever
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Index
B G S
Before blogging · 15 group blogs · 6 sketchblog · 6
blog · 5 Splog · 6
blog search engines · 8
blogosphere · 8 L
T
linklog · 6
C tumblelogs · 7
typecast · 7
cemented blogs' · 17 M typecast blogs · 7
club blogs · 6
consequence of blogging · 14 modern blog · 15
corporate blogs · 6 V
P vlog · 6
E
personal blog · 6
Early blogs · 15 photoblog · 7 W
Egyptian blogger · 13 political crisis · 16
weblog · 15
F R
first blog community · 16 Rathergate · 17
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References
1. Weblogs: A History And Perspective, Rebecca Blood, September 7, 2000.
2. "Welcome to Technorati". unknown. http://technorati.com/about/. Retrieved 2008-
06-05.
3. Stephan Metcalf, "Fixing a Hole", New York Times, March 2006
4. Jennifer Saranow, "Blogwatch: This Old House", Wall Street Journal, September 2007
5. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993832-3,00.html
6. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07304/829747-51.stm
7. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-drooling-minutiae-of-childhood-
revealed-for-all-to-see-as-mommy-blogs-come-of-age-485573.html
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