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Weblogs

Weblogs. Web2.0 . Outline. What are weblogs? Brief history of weblogs Types of weblogs What is mobblogging ? Examples of blogs Locating blogs Library & information services blogs Content/features on blogs How to create a blog. What are weblogs?.

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  1. Weblogs Web2.0

  2. Outline • What are weblogs? • Brief history of weblogs • Types of weblogs • What is mobblogging? • Examples of blogs • Locating blogs • Library & information services blogs • Content/features on blogs • How to create a blog

  3. What are weblogs? • Weblogs are examples of the so-called Web2.0 phenomenon. The term Web2.0 was coined by Tim O'Reilly of O’Reilly Media and MediaLive International. Web 2.0 applications are built for user-added content. • Before, a web manager added content to a website but the exchange was one-way. Today, anyone with Internet access can add content to a Blog, Wiki, Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites. • Web 2.0 has been defined as World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notabely, collaboration. • Weblogs are part and parcel of the new emerging technologies. As such they are in a state of flux, fluid, constantly changing. This makes them difficult to define. • The basic blog is a Web page written like an online diary documenting the author’s thoughts on a subject, perhaps with links to bits of useful information and pictures.

  4. Brief history of blogs • The birth of weblogs dates back to the years 1998/1999. • The popularity of blogging surged with the arrival of the free Blogger software (created by Pyra Labs in 1999). • Initially personal blogs were all the rage. Then in 1998-1999 weblogs began to be created by major newspapers as sources of information e.g. The Guardian (UK) and New York Times (USA).

  5. Types of weblogs • Weblogs are created by individuals, organizations, institutions, companies, professional associations, universities, libraries and many other groups. • There are different ways of categorizing weblogs. Based on content and purpose, there are 5 different types of weblogs: • the personal thoughts entered in a diary format at times accompanied by photos. • Interesting stuff found online with annotated links. • thought provoking comments – opinions about news and current events or about just one issue, with the aim of getting a reaction and perhaps creating change. • Family blogs which may or may not be accessible to the public. • information blogs – a way for people or organizations to share information of various kinds. There could of course be an overlap in the different categories of weblogs. Weblogs can either be private (i.e. password protected and accessible to a specific viewership) or public.

  6. What is moblogging? • The word moblog is a combination of Mobile and weBLOG. It can be defined as a posting of a weblog on the Internet using a smartphone . • Moblogsgenerally use technology that enables the user to publish to the Internet from a mobile platform. For example, the Nokia 7710 has moblogging on the phone menu as it uses special Symbian software to save SMS’s and photographs which could then be blogged. These are specialized web sites which allow the user to create and update a digital diary. • Mobloggingcan also be used to send photographs or sound to a conventional weblog using SMS or email from a smartphone. “Moblogging is hyper-blogging. It’s blogging with instant gratification. It’s blogging unplugged.” • The trend started in Japan where camera-phones and multimedia messaging technology originated. Now the trend is to tell the world what you had for breakfast, cool stuff you did at the weekend and generally inundating your friends with trivia. • Mobloggingis simply a medium or a tool and could be used in a myriad useful ways. For example, students are taking lecture notes this way.

  7. Examples of different types of blogs • Family/Adventure Weblog  Here is an example of a personal weblog that documents an adventure holiday journey on a bicycle http://moroccocycle.blogspot.com

  8. E.g. of Information journaling • Where is Raed? – This is the online journal of “Salam Pax”, the “Baghdad logger” of the war in Iraq. The weblog entries commence not long before the invasion of Iraq and the weblog is still being maintained. As a result of the weblog, both Salaam Pax himself and his friend Raed have become Web celebrities. http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

  9. More examples blogs • Sheila Webber's Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/ • 2oceansvibe – is a Cape Town-based weblog which won the Best Overall Blog award at this year’s SA Bloggie awards. It covers a huge amount of SA-related topics. www.2oceansvibe.com

  10. Locating blogs • There is no one comprehensive source of information and no one directory or search engine that will lead a reader to all relevant weblogs. Reason being that the finding tools that do exist have different scope and coverage and are organized differently. • Finding out about weblogs can be a matter of serendipity. There is no one source of information about all weblogs. • A number of search engines and directories (such as Yahoo!) provide info about and lists of weblogs. • Some weblog creation sites like Blogger www.blogger.com  maintain lists of weblogs that have been created using their service. A few specialist weblog search engines exist but they only search a fraction of the weblogs available.

  11. Specialist weblog search tools • The Blog Directory http://www.blogarama.com • Bloglineshttp://www.bloglines.comBloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.    • Technoratiwww.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html only for popular blogs • Blogfinderwww.blogfinder.com/ only for popular blogs • Globe of Blogs www.globeofblogs.com/ only for popular blogs Most search engines have a feature to search for blogs e.g. Google Blog Search.

  12. LIS Blogs • Librarian.net – a library weblog http://www.librarian.net/Jessamyn West’s blog provides comment on current professional issues, discussion of articles and reports and selected links. • Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net/  Steven Cohen’s blog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development.

  13. More LIS Blogs • LISNews.com http://lisnews.com/   This blog is a group effort/collaborative effort maintained since 1999. It covers a wide range of topics, but has some specialized sections like intellectual property, freedom of information, the Internet in libraries, filtering and censorship, electronic publishing and book news. • School Library Meeting Place http://iaslonline.ning.com/ forms part of the IASL website School Libraries Online and is a social networking site covering events around the world related to school librarianship.

  14. School Library blogs • Keansburg High School Library Blog http://khslibrary.motime.com/ • Pam Berger’s blog http://www.infosearcher.com/ • News & resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution by Judy O'Connell http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/ • SLA http://www.sla.org.uk/sla-blog.php

  15. Features/content on blogs • Name of the weblog • Name of the library • Date and time of posting of items • Short articles or news items • Links to sources of articles or news items • Information about Internet resources • Archives for the weblog • Links to the homepage of the library • Statement of aims or purpose for the weblog • RSS feed • Information about functions/activities in the library • Information about new books/resources in the library • Address of the library • Search engine for the weblog • News from the library (e.g. about new staff) • Link to the library catalogue • Link to the home page of the institution of which the library is part • Links to other weblogs • Book reviews • Local community news

  16. How to create a blog • The majority of weblogs are created using free software like Blogger that also provides server space to house a weblog so that it is publicly accessible on the Net. • The blogging process is not too technical but does require some basic knowledge of FTP.

  17. Become the … www.zazzle.de/weblog+anstecknadeln

  18. Free weblog software packages • BlogDrivehttp://www.blogdrive.com/ • MSN’s Spaces Blog service http://spaces.msn.com • Word Press http://wordpress.org • Blogger http://www.blogger.com/  [purchased by Google], provides a hosting option at Blog*Spot

  19. Commercial weblog packages • TypePadhttp://www.sixapart.com/typepad/ • Radio from UserLand Software http://www.userland.com/

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