This document discusses the history and role of weblogs or blogs, particularly in relation to journalism and newspapers. It outlines how The Guardian launched one of the earliest newspaper blogs in 2000 to collect noteworthy online content and engage readers through hyperlinks and two-way communication. By 2008, The Guardian's blog evolved into a community-driven "Comment is Free" section. The document also quotes bloggers and The Guardian's editor emphasizing how blogs can provide passionate perspectives that complement traditional journalism.

2. Introduction
 What is weblog?
 Who blogs?
 What are they used for?

3. What doesthe
weblogmean for the
newspaper industry?

4. The Guardian Weblog
Launched in 2000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/

5. The Guardian Weblog
 Collection of ‘noteworthy reads online’
 Hyperlink allow multiple ways to consume the new
material
 An ‘any-to-any talking and sharing system’
 Internet as a technology engaged two-way
communication between audience and journalist, and
changed the relationship between audience and
journalism
 Knowledge-as-process rather then knowledge-as-product

6. Updated in 2008
 ‘Comment is Free’ community
 Community-driven approach rather then content-
driven

7. Open Journalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGrfhJH1P4
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2012/feb/29/alan-rusbridger-open-
journalism-guardian-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

8. ‘Blogging are not exactly journalists, which is
a mistake many people make. They expect
us to be dispassionate and unemotional
about topic such as occupation and war.
That objective lack of emotion is impossible
because a blog in itself stems from passion
– the need to site for hours at one’s
computer, slouched over the keyboard,
trying to communication ideas, throughs,
fears, and frustrations to the world’
– Iraqi Blogger Riverbend, 2006

9. 'Journalists are not the
only experts in the world'
Alan Rusbridger – Editor of Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2012/feb/29/alan-rusbridger-open-
journalism-guardian-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

10. Reference
 Matheson, Donald (2004) ‘Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: some trends
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 Barlow, A (2007), The Rise of the Blogoshpere, Westport: Praeger
 Blood, R. (2000) ‘Weblogs: a History and Perspective’, URL (consulted June 2001):
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/ weblog_history.html
 Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin.
 Foucault, M. (1989) The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
 Kahn, R. and D. Kellner (nd) ‘Internet Subcultures and Political Activism’,
URL(consulted April 2003):
http://www.gseis.uclA.edu/courses/ed253a/oppostionalInternet.htm
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/