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Title: To Blog, Or Not To Blog http:www'users'muohio'eduburkejjblog'html
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To Blog, Or Not To Bloghttp//www.users.muohio.ed
u/burkejj/blog.html
- A TLTR Workshop
- John Burke
- April 6, 2005
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What is a blog?
- Short for web log
- An online journal or diary
- Combinations of original writing/abstracting with
links to other resources - Reverse chronological order
- Individual author audience comments group
authors - Searchable archives
- Example the InfoMans blog
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Whats a blog for?
- Outlet for expression of all kinds
- Personal, professional, political, etc.
- Current awareness updating
- Commentary on others comments
- Collaboration and group discussion
- Organizing information (text, images, links) with
individual links and posting dates
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Blogs in teaching and learning why
- Posting drafts for comment
- Journaling
- Online creation experience
- Group editing of documents
- Group discussion for a project
- Publishing and sharing work
- Tracking research developments
- Examples
- Georgia State University Library
- America and the World
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Setting up my own blog
- BlogSpot (blogger.com)
- LiveJournal.com
- Available at Middletown in the near future
- Xanga.com
- Various other sites (free and fee-based) see
this link
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What choices do I have with blogs?
- Can be public or private
- Templates, links, layout
- Single voice one author
- Multiple authors
- RSS/Atom feed
- Comments (on/off)
- Archiving
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How can I read blogs?
- Go directly to the blogs site
- infomanjjb.blogspot.com
- www.livejournal.com/librarianator
- Use an RSS feed reader/news aggregator
- List at www.lights.com/weblogs/rss.html
- Bloglines (www.bloglines.com)
- Use/create a page that lists blog post headlines
(using RSS) - www.mid.muohio.edu/library/thehap.cfm
- www.users.muohio.edu/burkejj/blogrss.html
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What is RSS?
- Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
- The feed a list of items headlines, postings,
etc. with links - Uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) feeds
often have .xml ending - Newer, enhanced version is called Atom
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Bonus whats a wiki?
- Blog-like
- Flexible arrangement
- Key difference anyone can edit posts/info.
- All revisions are archived
- Collaborative creation and editing
- Examples
- Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- JuggleWiki (www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/)
- Romantic Audience Project (ssad.bowdoin.edu8668)
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Bonus whats podcasting?
- Audio blogging iPod broadcasting podcasting
- Recordings posted for download marketed through
RSS feeds see iPodder.org for a directory - Listen at computer, or on MP3 player
- More information at http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
odcasting
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Where can I find blogs?
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- Technorati (www.technorati.com)
- Directory at Livejournal.com
- BlogStreet (www.blogstreet.com)
- Many searching options (www.lights.com/weblogs/se
arching.html) - Blogpulse (www.blogpulse.com) indicates posting
trends - Feedster (www.feedster.com) RSS feed directory
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Blogs in teaching and learning where
- Weblogg ed (www.weblogg-ed.com/)
- Into the Blogosphere (blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere
) UThink - Weblogs in Higher Education (www.mchron.net/site/e
dublog.php) - Shedding Light BLOG-MANIA (www.oln.org/teaching_
and_learning/shedlight.php)
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Where can I find more general information on
blogs?
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- Wikipedia Weblogs entry (http//en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Blogs) - Weblogs Compendium (www.lights.com/weblogs)
- About.com (weblogs.about.com)
- Books at Miami (and beyond) ugly link
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