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Understanding Web Logs: An Essential Guide for Beginners

Learn about blogs, subscription, communication concepts, and improve your internet skills. Explore blog post elements, footers, and URLs in this comprehensive resource.

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Understanding Web Logs: An Essential Guide for Beginners

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  1. What is a Web log (blog)? Skills: reading and searching a blog IT concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, wire-frame diagram, permalink, tag (label), long tail, captcha (anti spam) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

  2. What is a Web log (blog)? • Internet concepts • Applications (blogs) • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation

  3. A typical 2-column blog post Post title and date Post body Additional information Footer

  4. A B C E D F G

  5. Blog post key A: Search all blog posts B: Title and date of the posts in reverse chronological order C: Text to speech reading of the post D: Body of the post E: Subscribe by email or RSS F: Links to other Web sites G: Get the post in PDF format Click on the title (B) for a permalink

  6. Wait – what is a permalink again? Every blog has a URL. For example, the URL of our class blog is: http://cis471.blogspot.com Every post within a blog has its own URL, its permalink. For example, I wrote a post on the low cost of connectivity in Stockholm and other cities. The permalink URL for that individual post is: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html

  7. Blog post footer F A A B C D E

  8. Blog footer key A: Click on images to download and enlarge them B: Permalink – a link to this particular post C: Comments – read and leave comments D: Links to blog posts that link to this one E: Labels (tags) assigned to this post F: Labels (tags) used on this blog

  9. Blogs are mostly one-to-many, but … • There may be several • authors • Readers can comment For example: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-connectivty-in-stockholm-so-much.html A captcha

  10. Comment moderation, a necessary bother

  11. Video: blogs in plain english http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

  12. Just before the end of the video, he characterizes blogs as providing “news that appeals to a high number of small audiences” Technorati had indexed 133,000,000 blogs as of January 2010

  13. The long tail

  14. What is a Web log (blog)? Skills: reading and searching a blog IT concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, wire-frame diagram, permalink, tag (label), long tail, captcha (anti spam) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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