A blog is a discussion or information website consisting of posts displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs are created by individuals or organizations and allow commenting. They generally contain text, images, and personal opinions. Key components of blogs include posts, comments, archives to access older posts, categories to organize posts, and syndication formats like RSS and Atom that allow users to subscribe to blog updates. Libraries can use blogs to promote their resources, services, and get feedback from visitors.

2. Definition
of BLOG…

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“The word blog is derived from the
combination of the two words, web and
log. Blogs are virtual diaries created by
individuals and stored on the Internet.
Blogs generally consist of text and
images and can appear in a calendar type
format.”

4. …
 is a discussion or information
site published on the World Wide
Web consisting of discrete entries
("posts") typically displayed in reverse
chronological order so the most recent
post appears first.

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 Organized content in short
“posts” or articles, which are
displayed in a reverse chronological
order and tend to contain personal
opinions as well as facts.

6.  Blogs are written in HTML,
although the code of other languages,
such as JavaScript, may appear as
well.
 HTML describes to a browser
ho to display a Web page, whether
it’s a part of a blog or anything else.

7. Boingboing.
A directory of wonderful things.Is a
multiauthor blog with many posts a day.
Engadget and Gizmo.
These two blogs cover the latest electronic
gadgets such as cellphones, digital cameras, gaming
device, laptop, computers, and much more.

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Daily Kos
 State of the Nation. founded by Markos
Moulitsas. This is a U.S. political blog with a decided
liberal slant.
Has a somewhat unique feature in that readers
can create their own posts in so-called diaries.
 Has a somewhat unique feature in that readers
can create their own posts in so-called diaries.
It functions as a discussion forum and group blog
for a variety of netroots activists, whose efforts are
primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening
the Democratic Party.

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Google Blog
The official Google blog, which advertises
“Googler insights into product and technology news
and our culture”
Scobleizer
By Microsoft’s Robert Scoble.
You’ll find many posts a day on everything related to
Microsoft and the high technology industry.

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Seth’s Blog
 Contains profilic author Godin’s
comments on marketing, the internet, and
more.
Dooce
 A hilarious blog that describes
Heather’s life.

11. Name/Title
 A blog will typically have a name displayed
on top, which may or may not be descriptive.
Description
 Often include a descriptive subtitle.
Example, The Ted Rap says: Ted Demopoulos’s
thoughts and musings on Information Technology,
Security, Business and more

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Posts
 Also called articles – contain the
content. They are dated and displayed in
reverse chronological order ( most recent
first).
Comments
 Key distinguishing feature of blogs.
Most blogs allow users to leave comments in
response to individual posts.

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Permalinks
 It is a permanent link or URL to a
blogspot.
Allow bloggers and others to link to
specific posts, knowing the URL will not change
or become obsolete.
Each post typically has its permalink
following the post sometimes signified by the
word permalink or the character “#”.

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Sidebar
 Can contain just about anything.
 It includes the picture of the author, an
“about” section with some prose about the author or blog,
contact information, a list of recent post by titles, links
to the main organization’s Web site, blogrolls,
advertisements, archives, categories, and a search
feature.
Blogroll
 List of other blogs.
 A blogroll may be named Blogroll, Blogs I read,
Blogs I Like, or something similar.

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Archives
Older post are archives but easily
accessible for users who want to take a look back
at some of their favorite post, need to access
them for research.
Categories
Allow organizing posts by content and
each post can belong to more than one category.

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Syndication
It is designed to solve this problem: it all
allows us to track more information in less time.
 There are two competing yet extremely
similar formats for syndication, RSS (“rich site
summary”) and ATOM.
RSS (“rich site summary”)
Really Simple Syndication. A method of
describing news or other Web content that is
available for "feeding" (distribution or syndication)
from an online publisher to Web users.

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ATOM
 Atom is a machine-readable XML-
based web syndication format which allows users
to subscribe to blogs and other web content
subject to frequent change. This XML file may
be called an Atom feed, webfeed, Atom stream
or Atom channel.

18. HOW THIS WEB
TECHNOLOGY HELP THE
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
CENTERS AND USERS.

19. Blogs are continuously-updated websites,
created by individuals or organizations. They
are generally free. A library can use blogs
to promote its products and services by
making it appealing and informative. Special
alerts about new resources special services
can be included in the blog entries. To get
feedback, comments and suggestions can be
invited from visitors.