The Exciting World of BLOGS!!!!!

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The Exciting World ofBLOGS!!!!!

• By,
• Aaron
• Armston

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What Is a Blog?

• The term Blog, is actaully short for web log.
• Blogs are frequently updated web pages on which
  authors post short comments about news items,
  interesting websites, their thoughts and more.

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Terminology

• Blogging- The actual activity of updating a blog.
• Blogger- The individual who keeps the blog. (as
  pictured on the left)

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Where It All Began

• Essentially the first weblog seems to be the
  first web site created in 1993, this was at
  http//info.cern.ch, created by Tim Berners-Lee.
• It is considered so because it had updated links
  to websites, it was not what we would today
  consider a blog website.
• What appears to be the first site dedicated to
  blogs was created in 1996 by a man named Dave
  Winer.
• His posts could be found on the 24 hours of
  democracy website.

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Where It All Began (cont.)

• Before 1999 the blogging community mostly
  consisted of internet savvy people who would
  provide their own posts and updated links to
  others.
• In 1999 blogging became more user friendly
• Pitas, the first free build-your-own-weblog tool
  is launched
• Later that year Blogger and Groksoup were also
  launched and they too provided more opportunity
  for the lay person

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Blogging Today

• Today blogs are used for a multitude of reasons
• Political watch dog
• Media oversight
• Sports talk
• Mindless banter
• Ect.

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Political Watch Dog

• Recently Joshua Marshall from talkingpointsmemo.co
  m along with other bloggers made a big enough
  deal over Tent Lotts racist remarks, that they
  essentially ended his political career.
• During the debates for the 2004 Presidential
  elections, bloggers would begin their fact
  checking as soon as any comment would come out of
  either candidates mouth.
• This subsequently made the opponents more wary of
  what they said.

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Media Oversight

• Bloggers keep the media in line now a days.
• They are responsible for fact checking Dan
  Rathers memo leak that resulted in his
  resignation.
• One website, www.newshounds.us, claims that they
  watch Fox news so that you dont have to.

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Sports Talk

• Many sports blogs site provide the viewer with
  the most up to date news and rumors.
• http//www.yankeesbaseballblog.com/2005/01/
• While others provide fans with an opportunity to
  express their most passionate and quite
  understandable emotions.
• http//weblogs.upei.ca/node/view/676

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Mindless Banter

• Some blogs are placed on the internet purely for
  the enjoyment or recreation of those who create
  them and have if anything a negative impact on
  society by dumbing it down.
• http//joyofsox.blogspot.com/

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Popular Blogging Sites
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The Future of Blogs

• Increased Awareness
• A CNN poll discovered that despite the fact that
  over 75 of Americans use the internet, only 26
  are familiar with the term blog.
• Amazing Growth
• Two years ago, there were just 100,000 blogs on
  the internet, as of Monday there are now over
  8,000,000!
• A new blog is estimated to be created every 7.4
  seconds!
• One small step for man, one giant leap for
  bloggers
• Earlier this month, 23 year old Garrett Graff, a
  blogger for fishbowldc.com was the first in his
  field to be granted access to the White Houses
  daily press briefing.

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Any Questions?

• April 3 the world will return to normalcy!