Types of Blogs

I am guilty of once owning a blog site in my schooling years and abandoning it once I entered the workforce. Back then, blogs were the rage, at least among my peers. It was cool to own a blog, and even cooler to gave high site traffic. We will have a message board for friends to leave a shout out, smiley, or rants apart from the 'comment' link. Our blogs are usually journalistic posts with the occasional pictures to show off the cool crowds and activities we partake. Well, we were young and naïve.

As I embark on this task, I realized that blogging has evolved to more than just an online diary. Long were the days where people pour out their deepest thoughts onto a site in the World Wide Web. Today blogs have even made people rich, put some behind bars and for some, a rewarding job.

Blogs can be typically categorized as personal blog, corporate or organizational blogs or by genres, media types or devices.

Personal blog are the more common ones around as it is an avenue for the author to reflect on life, express his thoughts and write just about anything he wants. In essence, it’s a journal, only published online.

Blog genres are extensive; it can be any topic imaginable. Some of the popular genres are politics, travel blogs, niche blogs, music and art blogs.

Did you know that there are a few Weblog competition hosted by various international bodies annually? Deutsche Welle, the German International Broadcasting Service founded The Best of Blogs (The BOBs).

References:

The BOBs (weblog award). (2009, August 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 06:38, December 21, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=The_BOBs_(weblog_award)&oldid=306386148

Chong C.K (2005), AsiaMedia Archives. Retrieved December 21, 2009, from SINGAPORE: Two charged with making racist remarks on Net: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29745

The Blog : A Phenonmenon

In the internet era, its uncommon to hear of anyone who hasn't heard of blogging or owns a blog. Blogging has become one of the popular justifications for the Internet apart from social networking or online gaming. It is a growing trend that transcends age, gender, race or even language. To most, blogging is the equivalent of an online journal; to some it’s a portal of expression of one’s interest and gathering a small community that shares the same interest or passion of that particular topic. So it forms little niches of interest based online community.

Birth of 'Weblogs'

Apparently, John Barger coined the term ‘Weblog’ in 1997(Wiki). It is mainly to describe online diaries which was later popularized by Evan Williams of Pyra Labs who further devised the word to “blog” and “blogger”. It has been a decade and the blogging fever has not left the building. Blogs are very easy to set up, all you need is an email address and an internet connection. The accessibility and total control of the blog by the author makes weblog a appealing to the masses. The author can edit, delete or create any post at any time they want.

Did you know that Bruce Ableson set up the first blog community, Open Diary, in 1998 and since then, there were a few other blogging host that launched similar sites such as LiveJournal and Blogger.com..

To date there are a total of 126,861,574 blogs online which covers a plethora of topics from politics, health, art even to the bizarre and taboos.

References:

BlogPulse (2009), 'BlogPulse STATS', viewed December 16, 2009, from http://www.blogpulse.com/

Blog. (2009, December 16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 03:27, December 16, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blog&oldid=345279945

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Guess this is the coolest assignment ever!! a weblog instead of essays...aweserm la!!

im loving this subject!

thanks Jenny!!!

Shouldn't be a problem for sumone with verbal diarrhea like mua...haha...

In my first attempt at blogging after 5 years of hiatus from the blogging world, I will be looking at issues in media publishing through the years. Most are usually my thoughts on that particular issue or just interesting snippets that I discovered in this virtual journey.

back to the lesson..will blog sum more later..toodlez!