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Title: The Exciting World of BLOGS!!!!!


1
The Exciting World ofBLOGS!!!!!
  • By,
  • Aaron
  • Armston

2
What Is a Blog?
  • The term Blog, is actaully short for web log.
  • Blogs are frequently updated web pages on which
    authors post short comments about news items,
    interesting websites, their thoughts and more.

3
Terminology
  • Blogging- The actual activity of updating a blog.
  • Blogger- The individual who keeps the blog. (as
    pictured on the left)

4
Where It All Began
  • Essentially the first weblog seems to be the
    first web site created in 1993, this was at
    http//info.cern.ch, created by Tim Berners-Lee.
  • It is considered so because it had updated links
    to websites, it was not what we would today
    consider a blog website.
  • What appears to be the first site dedicated to
    blogs was created in 1996 by a man named Dave
    Winer.
  • His posts could be found on the 24 hours of
    democracy website.

5
Where It All Began (cont.)
  • Before 1999 the blogging community mostly
    consisted of internet savvy people who would
    provide their own posts and updated links to
    others.
  • In 1999 blogging became more user friendly
  • Pitas, the first free build-your-own-weblog tool
    is launched
  • Later that year Blogger and Groksoup were also
    launched and they too provided more opportunity
    for the lay person

6
Blogging Today
  • Today blogs are used for a multitude of reasons
  • Political watch dog
  • Media oversight
  • Sports talk
  • Mindless banter
  • Ect.

7
Political Watch Dog
  • Recently Joshua Marshall from talkingpointsmemo.co
    m along with other bloggers made a big enough
    deal over Tent Lotts racist remarks, that they
    essentially ended his political career.
  • During the debates for the 2004 Presidential
    elections, bloggers would begin their fact
    checking as soon as any comment would come out of
    either candidates mouth.
  • This subsequently made the opponents more wary of
    what they said.

8
Media Oversight
  • Bloggers keep the media in line now a days.
  • They are responsible for fact checking Dan
    Rathers memo leak that resulted in his
    resignation.
  • One website, www.newshounds.us, claims that they
    watch Fox news so that you dont have to.

9
Sports Talk
  • Many sports blogs site provide the viewer with
    the most up to date news and rumors.
  • http//www.yankeesbaseballblog.com/2005/01/
  • While others provide fans with an opportunity to
    express their most passionate and quite
    understandable emotions.
  • http//weblogs.upei.ca/node/view/676

10
Mindless Banter
  • Some blogs are placed on the internet purely for
    the enjoyment or recreation of those who create
    them and have if anything a negative impact on
    society by dumbing it down.
  • http//joyofsox.blogspot.com/

11
Popular Blogging Sites
12
The Future of Blogs
  • Increased Awareness
  • A CNN poll discovered that despite the fact that
    over 75 of Americans use the internet, only 26
    are familiar with the term blog.
  • Amazing Growth
  • Two years ago, there were just 100,000 blogs on
    the internet, as of Monday there are now over
    8,000,000!
  • A new blog is estimated to be created every 7.4
    seconds!
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for
    bloggers
  • Earlier this month, 23 year old Garrett Graff, a
    blogger for fishbowldc.com was the first in his
    field to be granted access to the White Houses
    daily press briefing.

13
Any Questions?
  • April 3 the world will return to normalcy!
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