Blogging allows people to share their creativity and opinions with the world. Blogs originated from bulletin board systems and online forums from the 1990s. There are different types of blogs including personal blogs, corporate blogs, and microblogs. Blogging employs various technologies and formats like text, photos, videos, audio and has influenced how businesses, news, and other systems operate. It has grown more prominent since the 2000s as a new media and is now used mainstream by individuals, politicians, and businesses to shape public opinion.

1. BloggingSharing Your Creativity with the World

2. What is a blog?

3. Types of BloggingPersonal blogsPersonal blogsCorporate and organizational blogsBy genreBy media typeBy deviceMost blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro-blogging is another type of blogging

4. Where did it come from?Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)Digital communities such as UsenetOnline Services such as Bix, Genie, CompuServe email lists1990’s, internet forum software like WebEx created conversation “threads”Online diaries1994, Justin Hall at Swarthmore CollegeDave Winer’s Scripting NewsSousveillance

5. How does it work?As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.Blogging employs different technologies. Microblogging sites such as Twitter use systems similar to text messaging, while Itunes allows Podcasting as an audio blog format, and the standard " Blogspot style can run on simple HTML.Blogging has been enormously influential, changing the way businesses are managed, news is analyzed, and affecting the way other systems are designed. Gmail, for instance, is a blog inspired email server.

6. Birthplace of 2.0Blogging has continued to grow in prominence with the mass media, particularly since "Rathergate's" occurence.Blogs gain prominence by cultivating followers. This is usually done by being an active participant in the blogging community.

7. Popular OpinionBy 2004, blogs have become mainstreamUsed by politicians, businesses and news agencies to shape public opinionEven countries got involved! Israel was the first national government to set up a blog.

8. New Media Class and BloggingWe like it! Many use as journal Most everyone agrees that Twitter is “silly”

9. The BloggernacleMormon Matters.orgFamily Websites

10. Jer3miah BlogsThe Blog ExperienceThe AccountThe Tibetan Monk

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