Blogging and its origins:
A blog is a relatively new form of communication comprising of a mainly internet only interaction. There are many uses for this technology. One primary one is to share views, facts and opinions to others. The basis of a blog is that whatever you write on this, anyone in the world will be able to see it also. For example, with this blog. [not that there is much of it yet!] But if anyone wished to, they would be able to see what I am writing now.
The term 'blog' was coined by a mixture of John Barger and Peter Merholz. Barger came up with the expression 'weblog' and was later taken into its shorter, now more recognisable form of 'blog'. This interactive domain is a direct chronological cousin of the bulletin board systems, and the online diaries used initially in the 1990's. In 1993, blogging as we know it today was born. Dr. Glen Barry founded his blog around the forest protection, and is still running today. We are almost directly following in his technological footsteps by using this form of communication to aid our education. He also used his as a form of documenting his project for a PHd.
Development of the 'blog':
From this people were then able to upload video responses to their lives. They were able to transfer visual data of what their day consisted of, or how to do something via blogs. I believe Jamie Oliver makes a video blog every now and again, posting videos of how to make certain recipes in real time. This is obviously a major step for blogs. To be able to see what people are doing in real time. If blogs could be updated instantaneously, we may be able to see what someone is doing 24/7. almost as if wearing a web-cam all the time.
In the next blog:
I will be looking at a few specific blogs to look at how the author has used the technology to express and represent themselves. I will also be looking at how the respondents acknowledge these views and present themselves also.
Try to think critically - what do blogs offer that other forms of communication don't? what can they do well and what is not so good? does blooging have resonance in any other forms of communication that you can think of? Add all this creative thinking in to your work.
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