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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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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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Tail
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
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
