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Weblogs & their effect on old Media

Weblogs & their effect on old Media. By: Helin Marte Maggie Rende. What are weblogs? A personal or noncommercial web sites Uses a dated log format Contains links to other websites with commentary about them. What are blogs? Blog is derived from weblog

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Weblogs & their effect on old Media

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  1. Weblogs & their effect on old Media By: Helin Marte Maggie Rende

  2. What are weblogs? A personal or noncommercial web sites Uses a dated log format Contains links to other websites with commentary about them What are blogs? Blog is derived from weblog Type of website that allows easy publishing on the internet Require little knowledge of HTML to use or create A lot of free tools available online Weblogs

  3. First Weblogs • The first one was Mosaic’s What’s New Page in 1993 • The term weblog wasn’t coined until 1997 by Jorn Barger • There were only a handful of weblogs in 1998 • Media started noticing weblogs in 1999 • Pitas – first build-your-own-weblog tool (’99) • Blogger – August 1999 • Live Journal - 1999

  4. Blogger – can create your own blog in three steps Live Journal – place where users can keep blogs, journals, or diary. Can also record voice diaries. Blogger & Live Journals

  5. Types of Blogs • Photoblog – focuses on photographs • Sketchblog – focuses on images • Vlog – focuses on videos • Podcasting - audio

  6. Four Key Features of Blogs • Each entry is dated automatically • Links, photos, graphics and texts are all easily posted online with little effort • The audience can also take part, most blogging software allow comments on each post • The software also archives all the posts, allowing relatively easy access to any created

  7. Why are they popular? • Blogger was released • Users can create any kind of weblog they want • Makes online journals easier to manage • Easier and quicker to get information out to the public • Librarians can use them for time-stamping and to easily archive materials

  8. Old Media • What is old media? • Traditional ways (paper, printing) • Simpler ways of getting information out to the public

  9. Weblogs & Old Media • Weblogs are an alternative to traditional mainstream reporting. • Traditional Journalism is shaky • Weblogs are causing doubt in old school techniques • Old ways are becoming unpopular

  10. Controlling the Media • It is easier for large media companies to control the news and info over broadcast • Gives authors a chance to tell their side of the story about any articles they think were printed wrong • Weblogging saves trees, while old media uses printing

  11. Controlling the Media cont’d • Old media will change its ways to try and fit the standards of today but will never meet them • Pressure will be put on old fashioned companies to become technological

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