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113Backgrounder: About_Weblogs</span></b></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2002/09/15/toolsForPagesAndWeblogs.html" class="navigatorLink">Web Tools Overview</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/01/28/writingTipsForNewBloggers.html" class="navigatorLink">Weblog writing tips</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2006/10/27/onlineNewsWriting.html" class="navigatorLink">Online news writing</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/01/28/pictureTipsForNewBloggers.html" class="navigatorLink">Weblog picture tips</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2003/08/21/linksForPoliticsElectionsC.html" class="navigatorLink">Political reporting links</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/03/17/ethicsCodesResourcesForJou.html" class="navigatorLink">Journalism ethics links</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2006/02/03/whatsRss.html" class="navigatorLink">What is RSS? And that orange 'XML' thing?</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,116018,00.asp" class="navigatorLink">RSS news aggregators (for PC World)</a></b></div><hr size="1"><div align="center" class="small"><b><a href="http://www.stepno.com/pcworld/5rssreviews042804.html" class="navigatorLink">5 more aggregators</a></b></div> 114 <hr size="1"> 115 </td> 116 </tr> 117 </table> 118 </td> 119 <td bgcolor="#000000" width="1"><img src="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/images/shim.gif" border="0" width="1" height="1" alt="" /></td> 120 <td width="100%" valign="top"> 121 <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> 122 <tr> 123 <td width="1"> </td> 124 <td width="100%"> 125 126 </td> 127 </tr> 128 </table> 129 <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15"> 130 <tr> 131 <td valign="top" width="100%"> 132 <h3> 133 Bob's Weblog Backgrounder 134 </h3> 135 <p> 136 <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3"> <b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1">About Weblogs</font></b></td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="tan"> Weblogs are, at their best, a new form of <span style="font-weight: bold;">personal or communal journalism</span>. 137The idea of a page of date-stamped chunks of information pointing to a variety 138of other sites is as old as the Web, but the names "weblog" or "blog" 139are more recent. So are powerful and easy-to-use blogging tools that can be used for many kinds of self-expression on the Web.<br> 140 (Starting around the turn of the millennium, I had students create date-stamped, linked 141website diaries of their print or online reading, doing it "the hard 142way" to learn some HTML at the same time, or at least how to use Dreamweaver. A couple of semesters later, one student going through this ordeal said, "Why don't we just use Blogger?")<br> Today's <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2002/09/15/toolsForPagesAndWeblogs.html">weblog tools</a> 143don't <span style="font-style: italic;">require</span> knowing HTML, although it's still a good idea. With most blog-creation programs, all the work can be done in a browser 144window, most of the coding is point-and-click, and posting to the weblog server is automated. For examples, 145see my <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/">Other Journalism</a> blog done with Userland Radio; a<a href="http://bob.knoxblogs.net/"></a> <a href="http://boblog.blogsome.com/">boblog.blogsome.com</a> test of Word Press; my <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stepno">
145Red Liner</a> blog at Harvard, done with Manila, and my old <a href="http://boblog.blogspot.com/">boblog.blogspot.com</a> demo of Blogger. <br><span style="font-style: italic;"> Note: Weblogs (including mine) are often written in a hurry using software that does </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">not</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> check the writer's spelling or punctuation, which makes great editing practice for journalism students and professors alike. </span><br> </td> </tr><br><tr> <td colspan="3"> <br> <a name="logs"> </a><a href="http://www.stepno.com/weblog/ncsa93.html"><img src="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/images/2004/01/08/150pxncs93.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="170" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="150"></a>The 146term "weblog" (or "blog") is used for sites whose authors report 147regularly on issues that interest them (generally with links) or sites 148that interest them (usually with commentary). Some blogs are updated 149several times a day, some less often. Almost all use a "most recent 150item on top" reverse-chronological format, which is easy to do with blogging programs. Some blogs read like casual personal 151diaries, others emphasize political commentary, technical subjects, or 152creative writing. Many consist of short, telegraphic bursts. Many are 153"cobwebs" whose creators got too busy or lost interest after they landed that big deal.<br><br> 154Personally, I'm most interested in blogs that keep an eye on the 155sometimes-sleepy "watchdogs" of professional journalism, and in blogs that 156support "community" by one definition or another. <br> 157 <p> "Classic" weblog examples: Jim Romenesko's <a href="http://poynter.org/medianews/">MediaNews</a> and his <a href="http://www.obscurestore.com">Obscure Store</a>, Rebecca Blood's <a href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/index.html">Rebecca's Pocket</a>, Dan Bricklin's <a href="http://danbricklin.com/log/best.htm">Log</a> (see a <a href="http://news.com.com/2008-1082-256057.html">CNet article</a> about him), Jorn Barger's <a href="http://robotwisdom.com/">Robot Wisdom</a> (and <a href="http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/">faq</a>), Matt Drudge's <a href="http://drudgereport.com">Drudge Report</a> and Dave Winer's <a href="http://dave.editthispage.com/myNameIsDaveWiner">various projects</a>, particularly <a href="http://www.scripting.com/">Scripting News</a>, his <a href="http://www.userland.com/theHistoryOfWeblogs">history of weblogging,</a> and his <a href="http://davenet.userland.com/2002/05/07/howToStartAWeblogforProfessionalJournalists">advice to journalists</a> who might be interested in creating weblogs. Grappling with the variety of blogging experiences, Mike Gunderloy created <a href="http://larkfarm.com/weblog_madness.htm">Weblog Madness</a>, 158sorting his hundreds of links about weblogging into 18 topics. 159(Historically, I think the basic Weblog format of links and comments 160goes back to <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:timbl%40info.cern.ch&start=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=6692%40cernvax.cern.ch&rnum=24%22">Tim Berners-Lee</a>'s early 161<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&threadm=1993Jan29.122243.26454%40dxcern.cern.ch&rnum=280&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DWorld%2BWide%2BWeb%2Bgroup:alt.hypertext%2Bgroup:alt.hypertext%2Bgroup:alt.hypertext%2Bgroup:alt.hypertext%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.hypertext%26c2coff%3D1%26scoring%3Dd%26start%3D270%26sa%3DN">Usenet postings</a> and info pages about the Web, the launch of <a href="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-0693.html">NCSA Mosaic</a> and things like the <a href="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/1994/9-9-94.html">weekly bulletins</a> from the <a href="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/about.php">Internet Scout Report</a>. <a href="http://davenet.scripting.com/1994">Dave Winer</a> and <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/">Jakob Nielsen</a> 162both started writing "columns" online when the Web wasn't very old, and 163today their archives look a lot like weblogs. The 1999 launch of the 164easy-to-use tool <a href="http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra">Blogger</a>, later bought by Google, helped give the form a name.) </p> 165<p> By 2002 more and more professional journalists discovered the Weblog form, joining the San Jose Mercury's <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/">Dan Gillmor</a>, who got there early. Try <a href="http://csmonitor.com/scitech/monitorblog.html">Monitorblog</a> at the <em>Christian Science Monitor</em>, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/weblog/dcdenison/">D.C. Dennison</a> at the <em>Boston Globe</em>, a whole crowd at the Poynter Instiutute doing <a href="http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/">E-Media Tidbits</a>, more at the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/">Guardian Unlimited</a>, the OJR <a href="http://www.spikereport.com/">Spike Report</a> and a group weblog by <a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojc/topics/index.php">journalism students</a> 166at USC. A UK journalism professionals' website, journalism.co.uk, has 167carried articles about the pros and cons of students and others "<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/features/story731.shtml">working for free</a>" on websites, and about the role of the "<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/features/story687.shtml">citizen blogger</a>" in political life, including the US, UK and countries where free speech is not the norm. <span class="body">"People will die because of weblogs," according to a speaker quoted in that July 2003 story. </span> </p><p> Watch for civic issue-oriented blogs like Chris Lydon's <a href="http://bopnews.com">BopNews</a> "Blogging of the President" 2004 election campaign site, Howard Rheingold's <a href="http://www.smartmobs.com">Smart Mobs</a> site (and book by the same name), the <a href="http://www.dailysummit.net/">DailySummit</a> from Johannesburg, <a href="http://instapundit.com">InstaPundit</a> Glenn Reynolds at the University of Tennessee, <a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/">Cyberlaw</a> expert Lawrence Lessig at Stamford, and a whole mob of webloggers at <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu">Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society</a>. Even political parties got involved in 2003, with weblog momentum from <a href="http://blog.deanforamerica.com/">Howard Dean</a> spreading to other <a href="http://democrats.org/blog/">Democrats</a> and <a href="http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/">Republicans</a>, launching plenty of "is it really a blog, or just PR?" debate, and perhaps echoing the <a href="http://pasleybrothers.com/newspols/Table_of_contents.htm">partisan-press</a> newspapers of the early 19th century.<br> 168</p> 169 <p> Blogs also were early supporters of RSS or 170"Really Simple Syndication," an alternative way to publish, subscribe 171to, and read blog contents. See my "<a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/01/27/whatsTheDifferenceBetweenB.html">What are RSS and that orange XML thing</a>" essay and my notes on <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/01/28/writingTipsForNewBloggers.html">writing</a> and <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2004/01/28/pictureTipsForNewBloggers.html">illustrating</a> blogs.<br> </p> 172<p>Here are some other stories about weblogs, at least for historical purposes: </p><ul> <li>
172Dennis Mahoney's <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writebetter/">writing tips</a> 173for bloggers emphasize detail, storytelling and quality material -- 174even correct grammar and punctuation. He doesn't come right out and 175suggest taking journalism courses, but I think that's a fine 176thing to do. </li><li>Hypertext software publisher Mark Bernstein <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/WeblogHandbook.html">reviews one of the first</a> how-to-blog books. </li> <li>Glenn Reynolds, the <a href="http://instapundit.com">instapundit</a>, reflected on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,898665,00.html">the weblog form</a> for the <i>Guardian</i>.</li><li>Jody Raynsford at the pro site journalism.co.uk asks, "<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/features/story604.shtml">Blogging: the new journalism?</a>"<br> 177 </li> 178<li>Andrew Grumet created this <a href="http://grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html">in-depth discussion</a> of what weblogs are and can be.</li><li>Two more in-depth introductions to <a href="http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002399.html">weblogs and content-sharing</a> (syndication) from Diego Doval.<br> </li><li><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/jenkins0302.asp">MIT's Henry Jenkins</a> says "Bloggers are the minutemen of the digital revolution."</li><li>"Content and marketing" consultant <a href="http://www.clickz.com/em_mkt/b2b_em_mkt/article.php/870481">Debbie Weil</a> on the business potential of weblogs.</li> 179 <li>Egocentric diary-style blogs are easy <a href="http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/weblog1.html">to parody</a>, in <a href="http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/fanblog1.html">this case</a> at the home of <a href="http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war30.html">Get Your War On</a>.</li> 180 <li>Some bloggers are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/technology/19blog.html?ex=1397793600&en=5c0988b431ab65b6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">making money</a> at it, one way or another (NY Times 2004).</li> 181<li><a href="http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes46.htm">A Closer Look at Weblogs</a> by Cindy Curling, a web committee member for the Law Librarian's Society of Washington, D.C. (October, 2001) </li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/streetcred.html?pg=15">Wired</a> magazine overview of Weblogs. (January, 2001) </li><li>A <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/weblog/weblog1.shtml"> BBC</a> feature from September, 2000. </li><li>A weblog from a May, 2000, Chris Lydon program about weblogs on <a href="http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2000/05/20000518_b_main.asp">The Connection</a>, 182from WBUR/NPR, originally presented with more than 80 blog links. 183(After Chris left the show, they put his successor's picture on all the 184pages, including the Lydon archives.) Also see Lydon's post-NPR 185column on <a href="http://talk.transom.org/WebX?128@@.ee80f44">Transom.org</a> from fall 2001, his new-for-2003 <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon">Harvard weblog</a>, and his new-for-2005 combination blog, radio show and <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/stories/2005/02/09/podcastingVideoBlogging.html">podcast</a>, <a href="http://RadioOpenSource.org">RadioOpenSource.org</a>.</li></ul> <p> Webloggers are still <a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/">defining weblogs and their relationship to journalism</a>. Back in 2000, I asked students to decide for themselves whether Slate magazine's <a href="http://slate.msn.com/code/TodaysPapers/TodaysPapers.asp">Today's News</a> was a weblog. How about <a href="http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&c=Top%20stories">Moreover</a>, which points toward news stories in hundreds of categories? Could a <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/2003/10/07.html">political party</a> 186have a true weblog, or just a public-relations campaign site? Was the "latest news on top" format the main thing? Many 187bloggers would argue that key ingredients include a "personal" voice, 188not an anonymous "spokesman" or someone with a supervising editor; others would insist 189on links to varied opinions for a continuing conversation. </p><p> 190A blog can be a simple Web page that you add to now and then using any 191HTML editor or Web-page-building program. However, there has been a growth industry in <a href="http://www.cnet.com/software/0,10000,0-3228341-8-9496937-1,00.html">blogging tools</a>, such as these reviewed by CNet in 2002. </p><p> I encourage students to learn the <b>basics of HTML</b> 192so they can fine-tune and troubleshoot pages they make, whether they 193use the "save as HTML" option in a word processors, borrowed page 194designs, templates, or weblog tools. Most blogging software allows you 195to customize templates and incorporate your own HTML when creating your 196site, as in my <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/">weblogs.com</a> and <a href="http://stepno.manilasites.com">manilasites.com</a> blogs. Newer tools take away some of the need for simple HTML markup by putting a <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/2003/08/26.html">formatting toolbar</a> in the browser's weblog-editing window.</p><p> <b>Participatory sites:</b> Going a step beyond the "comment" link offered by blog software, watch for <span style="font-weight: bold;">collaborative</span> sites that allow readers to contribute -- and to <b>rate</b> contributions by other writers. In theory the "best" or "most popular" news rises to the top at sites like <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot.org</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/about.mefi">metafilter.com</a> and <a href="http://kuro5hin.org/">kuro5hin.org/</a>. (<a href="http://newsforge.com">
196NewsForge.com</a> is a source of staff and reader-contributed news about the open-source software movement, which includes the <a href="http://slashcode.com">slashcode.com</a> software pioneered by slashdot and used by newsforge and others.)<br> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Blogrolling:</span> 197Blog-writing programs and blog-hosting services often list users' 198"most-recently updated" or "most linked-to" sites, a feature that 199has inspired more general blog-referral sites, and "blogrolls" of 200kindred spirits posted in the margins of many blogs. Here are a few 201examples 202of site lists:<br> </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/"><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/">http://radio.weblogs.com/</a></a></li> <li><a href="http://moveabletype.org/spotlight-full.shtml"><a href="http://moveabletype.org/spotlight-full.shtml">http://moveabletype.org/spotlight-full.shtml</a></a></li> <li><a href="http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra"><a href="http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra">http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra</a></a></li><li><a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkman/topsites"><a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkman/topsites">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkman/topsites</a></a><br> </li> <li><a href="http://members.diaryland.com/edit/directory.phtml?letter="><a href="http://members.diaryland.com/edit/directory.phtml?letter">http://members.diaryland.com/edit/directory.phtml?letter</a>=</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml"><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml">http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml</a></a><br> </li> <li><a href="http://blogdex.net/"><a href="http://blogdex.net/">http://blogdex.net/</a></a></li><li><a href="http://blogrolling.com/"><a href="http://blogrolling.com/">http://blogrolling.com/</a></a><br> 203 </li> 204 <li><a href="http://www.daypop.com/top/"><a href="http://www.daypop.com/top/">http://www.daypop.com/top/</a></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.popdex.com/"><a href="http://www.popdex.com/">http://www.popdex.com/</a></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html"><a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html">http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html</a></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <div align="right"><i> <br> <i>Pardon the mess...</i><br>This was a one-page year 2000 class handout.<br>Expanded and moved from college server to Radio weblog, December, 2002<br> Outdated links replaced and updates added off and on through 2003<br>Since then I've decided to let the page sit as a historical artifact;<br> 205 I still fix broken links when I notice them, but that's about it. <br> 206See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging">Wikipedia</a> for the latest communal attempts to capture a definition of blogging. <br> ...<a href="http://www.stepno.com">Bob Stepno 2005</a> </i></div> 207 </p> 208 <p> 209 210 </p> 211 <hr size="1"> 212 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"> 213 <tr> 214 <td width="1"> 215 <a href="http://radio.userland.com/"><img src="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/images/radioBadge.gif" border="0" width="88" height="31" alt="Click here to visit the Radio UserLand website." /></a> 216 </td> 217 <td width="1"> 218 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> 219 <tr> 220 <td> 221 <a href="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/rss.xml" title="Click to see the XML version of this web page."><img src="http://www.stepno.com/oldblog/images/xml.gif" border="0" width="36" height="14" alt="Click to see the XML version of this web page." /></a> 222 </td> 223 </tr> 224 <tr> 225 <td> 226 <a href="http://radio.xmlstoragesystem.com/rcsPublic/mailto?usernum=0106327" title="Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog."><img src="http://static.userland.com/shortcuts/images/qbullets/mailto.gif" width="14" height="10" border="0" alt="Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog."></a> 227 </td> 228 </tr> 229 </table> 230 </td> 231 <td width="100%"> ©
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