weblogs pragmatic analysis
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Content
What is a weblog?
History
What does a blogger do?
Types of blogs Who let the blogs out?
Research theory
Blogs analyzed Unbrave Girl, Modern Nomad, Americana the Beautiful Lazy Travellers
Conclusion
References
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What is a weblog?
Online website which consists of posts
Reverse chronological order
Special publishing software
Comments Add links, photos, videos
Mainstream
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History
Online Diaries
Justin Hall - 11 years of posting
December 1997 first time used term web log
(John Barger Robot Wisdom WebLog) not only personal blogs, later news blogs Jonathan Dube, Hurricane Bonnie
Later blogging platforms huge spread
Nowadays more than 100 million blogs
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What does a blogger do?
After creating a blog
Chronology
Frequency
Focusing on a specific topic
Sharing on social networks
Referencing to older posts
Expect the reader to know Blog society
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Types of blogs
Basic types
Personal blog (authors thoughts)
Filter blog (author is an expert in specific field)
Thematic blogs Mommy blogs very popular
Pet blogs
Microblogging (140-character limit)
Facebook Twitter
YouTube
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Who let the blogs out?
Evan Williams, Pyra Labs
Blogger (1999)
Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little
WordPress (2003) Arianna Huffington HuffingtonPost (2005)
David Karp Tumblr (2007)
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Research theory
A blogger tends to use a bank of informationcreated by himself in his previous posts which hemay refer to, assuming readers familiarity with theinformation references to his older posts may notonly serve to avoid redundancy and build naturalcontinuity between them but also to create a certainfeeling of community or buddying among those in
the know, i.e. the author and the regular followers ofhis blog.
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Unbrave Girl
MITTEN LIST: FRANKENMUTH
Itwill be a surprise to noone that I love cheese.
Remember when I decided to kick off the Go SoloProject by going to a male strip show by myself and
you all thought I was crazy and many of you sent meconcerned emails beginning with the words, Umm,
ARE YOU CRAZY?
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Lazy Travellers
If youll recall, our very last week of our five monthRTW was off to a stellar start, thanks to two veryfulfilling days of rotten shark-eating and blackdeath-imbibing in Reykjavik.
extensive use of linking in order to facilitate
understanding
http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/ -
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Other Blogs
Modern Nomad
Most pride festivals are big fun flamboyant parties and anopportunity to show off our subculture in the prime real estateof the cities and societies we love.
Americana the Beautiful no occurrence of the explored phenomenon
it is a travel journal nonetheless
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Conclusion
Rather than being an essential characteristic of ajournal-type travelogue, references to an informationbank created by a blogger over time in his/herprevious writings seem to have more to do withauthorial preferences than stylistic characteristics ofthe genre and may therefore be used fairlyextensively and frequently or, conversely, be almost
or completely absent without necessarily taking awayfrom theblogsjournal-like character .
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References
Cross, Mary.Bloggerati, Twitterati: how blogs andTwitter are transforming popular culture.California: Praeger, 2011. PDF file.
Yus, Francisco. Weblogs: Web pages in search of agenre?
http://www.unbravegirl.com/
http://www.themodernnomad.com/
http://americanathebeautiful.org/
http://thelazytravelers.com/
http://www.unbravegirl.com/http://www.themodernnomad.com/http://americanathebeautiful.org/http://thelazytravelers.com/http://thelazytravelers.com/http://americanathebeautiful.org/http://www.themodernnomad.com/http://www.unbravegirl.com/ -
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Thank you for attention.