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Blogs and Changing News Industries.
Blogs originated in 1997 by a website known as weblog. On 17th December 1997 the term was coined by a blog, short for weblog, and coined by John Barger to describe the website that logged his computer travels through hyperlinks. A weblog is now known as a website that is used for regular commentary. Blogs have become a cultural phenomenon on the internet. Blogging can be done for social interaction and comes in the form of a personal diary or a collaborative space. It is a place where a variety of opinions, ideas, knowledge, and creativity can be found and consumed online. Blogging can be perceived as social event even if a blog has few readers (like this one will), just because it is submitted before the public expressing the individual and thus, blogs help produce identity.
The way a blog looks or is read depends on what it is used for. There are different types such as news blogs, corporate blogs, research blogs and most commonly blogs are used for personal use such as blogs on specific topic (known as genre) such as books, by device such as a mobile phone, by media type such as photoblog, vlog (video), podcasting (audio). Blogs allow publishing in a way that was once reserved strictly to the media and even that of News blogs differ from that of news due to the nature of blogs where the use of emotions is encouraged whilst a usual news story would not be able to exhibit due to needing to appear impartial and objective. Blogs often offer behind the scenes reports and a number of perspectives the media are unable to, or wish not to convey.
Common narrative and visual features of blogs are writing in first person, combining text, images and links/hypertext to other blogs, webpages, and other media related to a particular entry/topic. The interactive ability of feedback and reader comments is considered an important part of blogging. Blog features also include date and author listings, email links, and advertisements. Many blogs maintain anonymity and most blogs are relatively simple structured pages. Blogs typically use templates for the HTML and CSS for styling, so that changing the appearance of the pages is a simple matter of changing the style sheet. For this reason blogging software and systems are now being used for many web publishing applications, not just blogs in the traditional sense. The striking thing about blogging systems is how easy the blogs are to update, removing most or all of the pain of writing HTML pages.
Whether one is blogging for private or corporate use, there is a large number of blogs available where some are open source, some are commercial and others are free for certain classes of users.
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