Hello everyone,
Long time long see.
It has been a long time since I last posted something but here I am again.
This time as you can understand I am writing in English and here is the explanation. I would use my blog for the needs of my coursework for the Digital Information Technologies and Architectures module also known as DITA. So this post and a couple more that will follow would have to do with my module.
In this first post I am going to describe my blog, how is organized and also I am going to evaluate it. But before that I think that would be good to mention some fundamental things about blogs.
First of all what is exactly a Blog?
A blog, or Weblog as it is the original name, is a site based on Web 2.0 Technology, this means that the blog has a dynamic content, this content is short pieces of text (mostly known as posts) which are organised by time, with the most recent of the posts being at the top of the central page of the blog. The text is often being "escorted" from embedded videos and photographs which have as result the posts to appear more interesting and at the same time to make the topic of the posts more comprehensible to the visitors of the blog.
The fact that only a specific number of posts can be at the main page of the blog doesn't mean that someone can't access the earlier ones. As it concerns how often posts are being made there is not a particular pattern, this depends on the contributor/s of the blog who are those that can make the posts.
The blogs initially were used as online diaries and as sites where the creators could have links to other sites that they thought to be interesting and believed that other people would found them useful. But this has changed now the blogs are mainly being used for other reasons such as regular opinion columns, micro-journalism, broadcasting live events etc.
Finally something that is very important with the blogs is that usually are being written from one person or a small team, and this, most of the times, has as result to have a more personal writing style.
So this is my blog, as the most of you can realize it's just a simple blog with only a small number of posts (until now). It is also my first blog which makes me I could say an inexperienced blogger. Before starting writing to my blog the only experience that I had was from other blogs that used and still use to visit often. To be honest it was this module that motivated me to create my own blog and start writing. In contrast with most blogs in my blog you don't find posts only for one topic, I write about anything that find interesting (music, sports, food etc) and sometimes I even write just to express myself.
The implementation of this blog wasn't something difficult and most important wasn't time consuming. I just used one of the most known blog storage services, the Blogger which belongs to Google, and by following some simple steps I had my own blog faster that would ever imagine. With the Blogger except from the general design of the blog with some ready themes that provides you, you can also do a lot more. The Blogger has a lot of differnet gadgets that you can use to make the blog more interesting and useful. Gadgets like the configure link list that I have put on the top right corner where you can add links to sites or other blogs that you find interesting. Also another very useful gadget that can be added and which I have also added is the one that have to do with labels and is exactly under the configure link list. This gadget help us to categorize the posts that we make, for example in my blog I have until now 4 different categories of posts (coursework, sports, food, general). So with this is much easier for every visitor of the blog to find the posts that he/she is more interested in. Moreover there is the blog archive through which everyone can see how often there are new posts. But except from these gadgets, there are also thousands more and every day there are new ones that are being created that can be used to make every blog even more practical.
In addition to all these gadgets I am also using photos and videos in the posts that I make and I have given the ability to every visitor of the blog to comment if he/she wants the posts in order to hear also their opinions on what I am writing. Those two last things I think that are also very important in order to make a blog even more attractive and pleasant to its visitors.
Finally as we mentioned every blog is usually being written from just one person or a small group, in my blog I have added and another contributor who can also make posts but he can not change the outlay of the blog. The only one that can change the outlay of the blog is the creator of the blog, in our case, me.
So this is my blog, one in the millions that exists nowadays.
It's a simple blog but at the same moment it's a blog with its "personality", my personality.
REFERENCES
- Andy MacFarlane, Susan Jones, Richard Butterworth and Jason Dykes (2009), "Digital Information Technologies and Architectures", Lecture 1: Blogs, City University.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- https://www.blogger.com/start
- http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/
- http://washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/
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