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The Blog
I'm very opinionated
Below you will see my feed from Blogger.com. My flickr account hooks right into my blog so that I can use my own images to illustrate my posts or find other peoples' photos to corroborate my information. The formatting is done automatically for me in a layout I specified as default upon setting-up the service.
You can also view my Wordpress page to see an exmple of what is freely possible for you - the latter resembling more of a classic website rather than blog look. For my print media archives, be sure to go to my layout profile on flickr.
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What is a blog?
it's what newspapers used to be, Johnny
So, as with a lot of the new technical tools being developed, there is some controversy as to what blogs are. Even the name can't really be agreed by geeks. I've heard it called a shortening of the word 'weblog', but that has been refuted and doesn't really get us closer to the meat of the matter.
What is hard to refute is that the free services and emerging technologies that have made blogs, and posting to them, popular has re-democratized the publishing process. The ease of use of these services, interconnectivity of the web, and the popular view of diminished integrity of major news sources has spelled doom for print media. As such many readers, and now quite a few reporters, have turned to blogs.
In short blogging is a newer form of desktop publishing that is usually based entirely on the web with no intent toward physical printing. It's major strengths lie in the ability to connect a reader with supporting information (often multimedia equipped), to allow the publisher to make updates & corrections instantly, and for information to be easily & quickly searched.
