Blogs have evolved significantly since their inception in the 1990s. Originally created as personal online journals, they now serve various purposes and come in many forms. Blogs allow freedom of speech, knowledge sharing, and networking. While easy to start, maintaining a blog requires frequent updates. Key advantages include credibility building, marketing, and cost effectiveness. Safety depends on server policies and anonymity tools. Top blogs include personal stories and official company updates. Overall, blogs remain a popular medium for self-expression and interaction on the internet.

1. The advance technology in blogs
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2. Outline:
• What is blogs?
• History of blogs
• Advantage & Disadvantage
• Why blogs are so popular?
• Why blogs are powerful?
• How to creates your own blogs?
• Limitations
• How blogs work?
• Public policies of blogs
• Are blogs safety for users?
• Examples of Top blogs

3. What is a blog?
• It`s a personal journal published on the World wide web
consisting of discrete entries "posts” typically displayed
in reverse chronological order so the most recent post
appears first
• Also, they are usually the work of a single
individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are
themed on a single subject

4. History of blogs
• 1994  The first blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall.
At that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just referred to
it as his personal homepage.
• 1997  “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger.
• 1999  “Weblog” was shortened to “blog” by programmer
Peter Merholz.

5. Advantages
• Freedom of speech.
• Share knowledge with other people.
• Make friends online.
• Can be used as diary.

6. Disadvantages
• Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose
potential readers
• Easy to start, hard to maintain

7. Why blogs are so popular?
• Blogging is easy to start and maintain
• Blogs are very interactive
• Freedom to express your feelings
• Blogs are search engine friendly
• You can learn a lot from blogs
• Blogs are cost-effective
• Blogging is fun and for everyone

8. Why blogs are powerful?
• It is one of the simplest things to do on the internet
• A blog gives you an opportunity to build credibility
and a huge readership
• Blogging is also a very good internet marketing tool as
it is free.

9. How to creates your own
blogs?

10. Limitations
• Number of blogs = Unlimited.
• Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or
archive pages) are limited to 1 MB.
• Number of labels = 2,000 unique labels per blog, 20 unique
labels per post.
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web
Album) = Up to 1 GB of free storage.
• Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB
per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 800px.
• Team members (those that can write to a blog) = 100.
• Stand-Alone Page = Limited to 20 stand-alone pages.

11. How blogs work
• A blog is normally a single page of entries.
• A blog is organized in reverse-chronological order.
• A blog is normally public.
• The entries in a blog usually come from a single author.
• The entries in a blog are usually stream-of-consciousness.
• There is no particular order to them.

12. Public policies of blogs
It is different depend on the server of the blog In Google:
• Use information to provide our users with valuable
products and services
• Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards
and practices
• Make the collection of personal information transparent
• Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy
• Be a responsible steward of the information we hold

13. How to blog safely?
• Use a Pseudonym and Don't Give Away Any Identifying Details
When you write about your workplace, be sure not to gave away
telling details.
• Use Anonymizing Technologies
• Use Ping Servers

14. Examples of Top blogs
• Blog.com what is your story?
• Google official Blog

15. Conclusion

16. Any questions

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20. book:
• why blogs? Motivations for blogging ( 2010) by Sarah Pedersen
• Video YouTube:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhFc6GqVdU&feature=relmfu
• Jing video:
• http://screencast.com/t/QjgLjQmBb
• Power point