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Lecture 6

The document discusses blogs and RSS, highlighting the definition of blogs, their types, and the history of blogging. It outlines various blog categories, including personal, corporate, and genre blogs, and notes the evolution of the term 'blog.' Additionally, it explains RSS as a tool for syndicating frequently updated information and its benefits for users in receiving timely content updates.

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Lecture 6

The document discusses blogs and RSS, highlighting the definition of blogs, their types, and the history of blogging. It outlines various blog categories, including personal, corporate, and genre blogs, and notes the evolution of the term 'blog.' Additionally, it explains RSS as a tool for syndicating frequently updated information and its benefits for users in receiving timely content updates.

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IT Application and Tools in Business

Midterms (Blog and RSS)

Blog (Web Log) – it is a discussion or informational site published on


the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (Posts) typically
displayed in reverse chronological order where the most recent post appears
first.

Blogosphere – It is the collective communities of all blogs. Since all blogs


are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and
socially networked.

(***Note: Discussions in the blogosphere are occasionally used by the media


as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. Because of this, new and
untapped communities of bloggers and their readers can emerge in the space
of a few years, Internet marketers pay close attention to trends in the
blogosphere. ***)

Types of Blogs

1. Personal Blogs - The personal blog is an ongoing diary or commentary


written by an individual.

2. Microblogging - is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—


which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the
Internet. Microblogging offers a portable communication mode that feels
organic and spontaneous to many and has captured the public imagination.

3. Corporate and Organizational Blogs - used internally to enhance the


communication and culture in a corporation or externally
for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate
blogs.

4. Genre Blogs – These are blogs that focuses on particular subjects.

Examples of Genre Blogs


1. Political Blogs
2. Health Blogs
3. Travel Blogs (travelogs)
4. Gardening Blogs
5. Legal Blogs (blawgs)
6. Video Blogs (vlogs)
7. Photoblog
8. MP3 Blogs
9. Audio Blogs (Podcasts)
10. Educational Blogs (edublogs)

5. Reverse Blog - is composed by its users rather than a single blogger. This
system has the characteristics of a blog, and the writing of several authors.
These can be written by several contributing authors on a topic, or opened up
for anyone to write.

A Brief History about Blogging

1997 – The word “Web Blog” was first coined by Jorn Barger. Barger coined
the term weblog to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed.

April 1999 - The short form "Blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who
jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his
blog Peterme.com

1999 - Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used blog as both a noun and verb and
devised the term "Blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product
(Blogspot), leading to the popularization of the terms.

(***Note: As of October 2012 there are over 156 million public blogs in
existence. Most of these articles are in popular web blogging sites like
Tumblr, Wordpress and Blogger. ***)

RSS (Rich Site Summary) - uses a family of standard web feed formats to
publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio
and video. RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically.

An RSS document is often called "feed", "web feed", or "channel"


and it includes full or summarized text, like the publishing date and author's
name. RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from
favourite websites or to aggregate data from many sites. Subscribing to a
RSS website removes the need for the user to manually check the web site
for new content. Instead, their browser constantly monitors the site and
informs the user of any updates. The browser can also be commanded to
automatically download the new data for the user.

(***Note: RSS is originally known as RDF (Resource Description


Framework) when it was first created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V.
Guha while working for Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group in
1995.

It was Libby who changed the name from RDF to RSS in 1999 with the
coinciding with the launch of Netscape. ***)

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