What is a blog?
Short for Weblog, a blog is like an interactive website that is usually updated daily. Blogs can have one common theme or can cover a range of topics. It is up to the blog author to decide. Donna Wentworth, the web publications editor at Harvard University's Berman Center for Internet and Society states that a blog is "a website updated frequently with links, commentary and anything else you like. New items go on top and older items flow down the page. Blogs can be political journals, news digests, and/or personal diaries; they can focus on one narrow subject or range across a universe of topics. The weblog form is unique to the Web, highly addictive, and may be changing how we communicate with one another." ( http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/about). Business Week's Favorite Blogs: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/09/bloggers/index_01.htm
What is mBlog?
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/
mBlog is the free blogging service hosted by University Libraries. It is available to all University students, staff and faculty. mBlog uses the Movable Type blog software. You can find more information about the service or start your own blog at http://mblog.lib.umich.edu. Blogs we created: Kresge Library News: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/kresgenews/ Nonprofit Resources (at Kresge Library) http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/nonprofit
Kresge Library Collection News http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/kresgestuff
Cooking with Corey http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/coreyrecipes Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Resources http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/autismblog
Other Blogs using mBlog: LS&A Theme Semester (Explore Evolution - Winter 2006) http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/evolution/
Subscribing to Blog Content Using RSS Blogs make it easy to stay updated using a protocol called RSS. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a method that allows you to be continually updated about new information that gets posted to a blog. To use the RSS, you need to have an RSS reader, such at Bloglines, configured with all of your subscriptions. Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
Need help? Want more information? Contact:
Jennifer Zimmer jamm@umich.edu 764-6845 Corey Seeman cseeman@umich.edu 764-9969