This document discusses blogging and blogs. It begins by defining blogging and describing different types of blogs like personal blogs, filter blogs, and topic-driven blogs. It then discusses how blogs form distributed conversations through distributed networks and how social networks can collide on blogs, where content is persistently documented and visibility or anonymity is possible. Blogs are essentially web logs that are chronologically organized records with a typical 2-3 column layout.

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