Aside from all the celebrity blogs, personal blogs, and comedy blogs etc. there are strictly educational blogs.
They're blogs that are designed to aid people in learning about a specifc topic.
There are 'EdBlogs' made for learning english, and other languages, blogs for learning about business and management, and even a blog titled "Mr. Halls Third Grade Class", where a teacher has creates a blog for his students containing a page that says what their homework is and a page that displays their creations.
Another example is this blog made by a teacher in portugal who is teaching her students english and has created an english speaking blog.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
blogs and journalism
The blog is a new way for people to publish their own work, as i mentioned in an earlier post, they allow writers to gain recognition from readers and other writers.
In an article found on ABC.net.au, Richard Aedy and Jason di Rosso are discussing the way in which serious journalism in Australia and America is being threatened because of blogging.
"The growth in blogs is happening at the same time that audiences for mainstream news media are falling, especially in America." - Richard Aedy
Jason di Rosso gives a possible explanation, saying that after the tsunami (december 04) people searching on the interent for information were presented with blog sites.
John Burton replies:
"...The idea that a normal person in the middle of this chaos, telling this world about what’s happening is something that blogs can do really well."
In an article found on ABC.net.au, Richard Aedy and Jason di Rosso are discussing the way in which serious journalism in Australia and America is being threatened because of blogging.
"The growth in blogs is happening at the same time that audiences for mainstream news media are falling, especially in America." - Richard Aedy
Jason di Rosso gives a possible explanation, saying that after the tsunami (december 04) people searching on the interent for information were presented with blog sites.
John Burton replies:
"...The idea that a normal person in the middle of this chaos, telling this world about what’s happening is something that blogs can do really well."
reflections
When I first wrote on blogger.com I understood the more personal type of blog. Where people had created them as an alternative to bulk emailing or writing a letter to all their friends and family. I had also read a few blogs created for other specific purposes, but none of them what you would call professional.
I wasn’t too sure how they were structured, what type of language was used or how the layout differed from a regular blog.
All these differ from blog to blog but throughout the course, the idea of writing about one topic, or one topic in a specific way has become easier to understand.
top blog
"As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs."
- from Blog's wikipedia
The number of people that run a blog is ever increasing, as with Myspace, after a few years every second person had one.
People are also becoming successful and popular through their blogs, the same as people have with Myspace and Youtube.
Forbes.com created a list of the best blogs in the following catagories :
You can vote for which in each category you think deserves the top spot.
Apart from these blogs, there are many others that are getting recognised.
Such as Jake and Amir, who work for the website collegehumor.com. Aside from already making videos for their work, they decided to make their own staring themselves and post them on their own blog, as well as on college humor.
Another is the popular celebrity gossip blog perezhilton.com.
- from Blog's wikipedia
The number of people that run a blog is ever increasing, as with Myspace, after a few years every second person had one.
People are also becoming successful and popular through their blogs, the same as people have with Myspace and Youtube.
Forbes.com created a list of the best blogs in the following catagories :
You can vote for which in each category you think deserves the top spot.
Apart from these blogs, there are many others that are getting recognised.
Such as Jake and Amir, who work for the website collegehumor.com. Aside from already making videos for their work, they decided to make their own staring themselves and post them on their own blog, as well as on college humor.
Another is the popular celebrity gossip blog perezhilton.com.
Monday, January 21, 2008
comments please
The comment option within the blog has become an issue on many blogs.
With arguments starting between the user and viewer because of blog content, and also between readers that have differing opinions. In many cases though they help connect the writer with the reader, and the reader with the writer. Some people may choose to turn the comments off because they don't want any interaction, also because of spam comments. Although there is now a letter/word verification tool that can be enabled to determine weather or not the comment is authentic.
According to Darren Rowse "only 1 out of every one hundred readers (of his post specifically) will leave a comment." He then goes on to tell his readers how they can get more comments on their blogs.
Example:
1. He says to include an invite for people to leave the comments, and mentions how doing this in the past has worked on his blog.
2. Ask questions - when people are asked something specific in the blog, obviously they will have something to comment on when they otherwise may not have.
3. Reward comments - this can be done by either replying or discussing them in later posts.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/10/12/10-techniques-to-get-more-comments-on-your-blog/
blog VS website
A blog page differs from a website in the following ways:
- a website (for some/most) is hard to design, if you want it to be one worth looking at.
- a certain level of technical skills are often required.
- the langauge is more conversational, a website may be more formal...depending on which website.
Ultimately it depends on the purpose of the website or blog. If the websites purpose is to advertise something and get feedback then it might be beneficial to also set-up a blog, to allow people to easily give feedback (comments etc.). If the purpose is to keep people up to date with something, or find/publish information on something then a web page could be made. It also depends on the type of image the person or group wants to have.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
publishing
The blogging revolution has enabled many young writers to publish their work somewhere where it will be idealy read by lots of people.
In an article by Owen Gibson, he says, “Millions of young people who have grown up with the internet and mobile phones are no longer content with the one-way traffic of traditional media and are publishing and aggregating their own content, according to the exclusive survey of those aged between 14 and 21.”
They include communicating with each other (MSN messenger etc), online communities and downloading music.
Blogs have become the easy alternative to designing a whole website. People who didn't speak HTML, were put off of becoming internet savvy becuase it was all too hard. Blogging is an easy way for people to publish their work online.
Article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/oct/07/media.pressandpublishing
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