What is a Web log (blog)?

Skills: reading and searching a blogConcepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, permalink, label (tag), captcha, long-tail distribution

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Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Blogs in Plain English (3m 1s):http://commoncraft.com/blogs

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Our class Web log (blog)

Our class Web log (blog)

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What happens if you scroll down? What happens if you enter the word “image” into the box A?

Most recent post

Footer

Additionalinformation

Class blog wire frame diagram

Header

Do you recall what was in the header area?

Labels (tags)

What happens if you click on the image tag?

The URL of our class blog:http://cis471.blogspot.com

The URL of a specific post on the class blog:http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html

Permalinks

One to many

Posts

Comments

Comment moderation, a necessary bother

A captcha

A captcha

The long tail

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Blogs

MSDN blogsA collection of Microsoft technical blogs, most by Microsoft employees.

http://blog.roku.com/A blog for Roku users

How companies use blogs

Google’s getting started guide for Blogger

Some other blogging services

Google Blogger – a free blogging service

The blogger dashboard

Blogger. com

Summary

Posts

Comments

Blogs in plain English (3m 1s):http://commoncraft.com/blogs

Good tutorials on blogs:http://www.gcflearnfree.org/blogbasics

URL of the class blog used in this presentation:http://cis471.csudh.edu

Technorati, a blog directory and rating site:http://technorati.com/

Technorati State of the Blogosphere report:http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009-introduction

Further notes on “long tail” applications:http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/471/hout/apps/longtail.htm

Resources

1. How many posts on our class blog are tagged (labeled) television?2. How many of the posts to our class blog, cis471.blogspot.com, contain

the word television? 3. What was the title of the post made on Sunday, August 12, 2012?4. Technorati.com surveys the “blogosphere” – what is their estimate of the

number of blogs on the Web?5. Why do we have to moderate blog comments?6. Find a blog run by a business and state what the intended audience and

purpose of the blog is.7. How might one use a blog in politics?8. How might one use a family blog?9. How might one use a blog in school?10. Blogs are generally a one-to-many medium. Can you think of other one-

to-many media?11. Can you think of a many-to-many medium?12. Do Amazon book sales have a long-tail distribution? Explain your answer. 13. What is a permalink?

Self-study questions