Blogosphere
Presented by Ashok Kumar Narendra Kumar Pankaj
What is a blog?
• A web diary or journal • A log of links to other sites or pages
• A blog is a type of website, usually maintained
by an individual known as blogger with regular
entries of commentary, descriptions of events,
or other material such as graphics or video.
- Wikipedia
A blog is really a conversation
It’s a 1 to many conversation
You publish People comment
The conversation is recorded on the blog
The Blogosphere
Typical web sites allow 1 to many - one way conversations (publisher to reader) Blogs allow 1 to many 2 way conversations (via commenting & trackback) The blogosphere (a system or networks of blogs) allows many to many discussions conversations distributed over many sites and services
Some recent statistics
About 11% (50 million) of Internet users are regular blog
readers.
Technorati is currently tracking 42.6 million blogs There are about 70,000 new blogs a day. Bloggers update their weblogs regularly; there are about 700,000 posts daily, or about 29,100 blog updates in an hour.
Source - Technorati.com
Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site. – Mike Davidson
Founder and CEO of Newsvine.com
•Social networking
• No age restriction
•Web 2.0 feature – empowering businesses
•Personal usages
Nature of Blogs
• Simple • Direct & interactive • Based on story telling
The Clue Train Manifesto
http://www.cluetrain.org/
A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter— and getting smarter faster than most companies. ... These markets are conversations.
Why do people blog?
Impact of Blogging on Professional Life
Blogging For Profit
• High Revenue Bloggers – Top 10% in revenue $ 19,000 avg. annual revenue 76% - male 42% - self employed 60% - professional 19% - corporate
* According to www.technorati.com
Top 5 Indian Bloggers
Rank Name 1. Digital Inspiration 2. IndianPad 3. Quick Online Tips 4. Tech Buzz 5. Content Sutra
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blog labnol.org indianpad.com quickonlinetips.com tech-buzz.net contentsutra.com
*According to the www.Alexa.com – Internet
Information Website
Top 5 Blogs Worldwide
Rank Name 1. TechCrunch 2. Mashable 3. Engadget 4. Boingboing 5. Googleblog Blog - techcrunch.com - mashable.com - engadget.com - boingboing.net - googleblog.blogspot.com
* According to the www.technorati.com
Application
Web 2.0 feature
Getting started
• A few popular blogging software options • You install & run on a web host
– WordPress, http://wordpress.org – MovableType, http://movabletype.org – Drupal, http://drupal.org
• Hosted services
– Blogger, http://blogger.com (free) – TypePad, http://sixapart.com (commercial)
Blog search services
• • • • • Technorati, http://technorati.com Blogpulse, http://blogpulse.com/ Google Blog Search, http://blogsearch.google.com/ Feedster, http://feedster.com PubSub (subscription RSS service), http://pubsub.com
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