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Blogs
Marc Uhlig - Blogs
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Definition
Contraction of "Web log” Web site Regular entries Reverse-chronological order Ability for readers to leave comments
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Types – By Content
Personal Blogs Corporate Blogs Question Blogging
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Types – By Media
Vlog Linklog Sketchblog Photoblog Microblog Tumbleblog Phlog
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Types – By Genre
Political blog Travel Blog Fashion blog Project blog Education blog Niche blog Legal blog (Blawg)
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History
1983–1990 Usenet featuring moderated newsgroups Mod.ber
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History
1990–2001 Online diaries Wearable Wireless Webcam 1993
Dr. Glen Barry invented blogging, defined as web based commentary, linking to other articles
1997 ”Weblog” coined by Jorn Barger
1999 ”Blog” coined by Peter Merholz
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History
1990–2001 1998
Open Diary
1999 LiveJournal Pitas Diaryland Blogger
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History
2001–2004 2001
First appearance of how-to manuals
2002 Blogs report about U.S. Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott honoring U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond
Blogs gain increasing notice for breaking, shaping, and spinning news
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History
2001–2004 Blogging established by political
candidates to express opinions on war and other issues cement blogs’ role as news source
Beginning of nearly-instant commentary on televised events Lifeblogging
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History
2004–present Blogging becomes increasingly
mainstream 2004
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary declared "blog" as the word of the year
Blogs among driving forces behinf “Rathergate” scandal
Blogs’ acceptance by mass media
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History
2004–present 2004
Blogs important news source during December Tsunami
2005 Fortuna magazine lists eight bloggers
business people “could not ignore” Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena
Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis
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History
2004–present 2007
Tim O'Reilly proposed a Blogger's Code of Conduct Citizen Journalism: San Diego Wildfire updates on
Twitter 2008
U.S Presidential Campaign Obama had 4 times the amount of Facebook
supporters, 25 times the amount of Twitter followers, 3 times the mount of visitors to his site
2009 Citizen Journalism: US Airways crash updates on
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Some Stats
comScore MediaMetrix (2008) Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the
US Facebook: 41.0 million MySpace 75.1 million Total internet audience 188.9 million
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Some Stats
eMarketer (2008) 94.1 million US blog readers in 2007
(50% of Internet users) 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%)
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Some Stats
Technorati (2008) Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet
users, up from 13% in 2006 Social networks are now used by 26% of
Internet users, up from 17% in 2006 Videocasts are now used by 11% of
Internet users, up from 6% in 2006 RSS feeds: growing from 5 to 7 percent Podcasts: growing from 5 to 7 percent Business news sites: flat at 8 percent
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Demographics
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Demographics
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Demographics
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The Blogosphere
Collective community of all blogs Connected through
Blogrolls Comments Linkbacks Backlinks
Collection of local blogs sometimes referred to as bloghood
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Blog Search Engines
Used to search blog contents Bloglines BlogScope Technorati Google Blog Search
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Measuring Popularity
Popularity through citations Popularity Through affiliation
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Mass Media
Many Bloggers differentiate themselves from mainstream media
Many mainstream journalists write their own blogs
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Defamation or Liability
Several cases have been brought before the national courts against bloggers concerning issues of defamation or liability Malaysia
Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan sued by pro-government newspaper
UK College lecturer sued by politician
U.S. Aaron Wall sued by Traffic Power for defamtion
and publication of trade secrets
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Employment
Ellen Simonett fired by Delat Air Lines for her blog “Queen of Sky: Diary of a Flight Attendant”
Erik Ringmar ordered by London School of Economics to take down his blog
Mark Cuban fined for criticizing NBA officials
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Employment
Mark Jen fired by Google for discussing corporate secrets on his personal blog
Gaurav Sabnis, Jessica Cutler, Catherine Sanderson,…
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Blogging Software and CMS
Content Management System (CMS) Software providing method for
managing websites Blogging software considere specific
type of CMS
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Archives
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Feeds and Syndication
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Blogrolls
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Managing Comments
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Trackbacks
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Pingbacks
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Verifying Pingbacks and Trackbacks
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Comment Moderation
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Pretty Permalinks
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Post Slugs
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Excerpt
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Plugins
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Jason Calacanis:Is Blogging Dead?
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No!
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Blogs and Marketing
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Credits
http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.gapingvoid.com/
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