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Blogs & Blogging
Montrose Adult SchoolSpring 2009
 
 
What is a blog?
•“a frequently updated web site consisting of  personal observations, excerpts from other sources, etc., typically run by a single person, andusually with hyperlinks to other sites; an online journal or diary”
(OED 2003)
•“frequently updated webpages with a series of archived posts, typically in reverse-chronologicalorder”
(Nardi, et. al. 2004)
 •“modified web pages in which dated entries arelisted in reverse chronological sequence”
(Herring, et. al.2004)
Some formal definitions:
 
 
What is a blog?
•Ask a long-time blogger what a blog is and their eyes glaze over. They might tell you that thequestion is meaningless because 'a blog' is just a publishing platform. They might tell you that thereare so many different types of blog and ways to blog that it's impossible to generalise.•Unlike some, I believe there is somethingdistinctive about blogging and that the distinctionarises from the technology powering the medium.
(Shane Richmond, Jan. 2009)
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