1. Jill Walker Rettberg

2. Content
 What is blogging?
 How to blog
 Three Blogs
 Defining Blogs
 Blogs, Communities and Networks
 Distributed Conversations
 Colliding Networks

3. What is blogging?
 How to blog
 Blogger.com
 Online services
 Blog name and URL
 HTML and CSS

4. What is blogging?
 Three Blogs
 Personal or diary style blogging.
○ www.dooce.com
 Filter blogging
○ www.kottke.org
 Topic-driven blogging
○ www.dailykos.com

5. What is blogging?
 Defining Blogs
 Web + log
 Log: chronological record
 Layout: 2 – 3 columns

6. Blogs, Communities and
Networks
 Distributed Conversations
 Distributed network: each computer is
connected to a number of adjacent
computers rather than a central hub.

7. Blogs, Communities and
Networks
 Colliding Networks
 Social networks
 Visibility and anonymity
 Documentation is persistent