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What is Blog

The full name of Blog should be Web log, which was later abbreviated to Blog. A blog is an easy-to-use website where you can quickly post ideas, communicate with others, and engage in other activities. All this is free.

What is a Blogger?

A Blogger is a person who writes a blog. From an understanding point of view, it is "a publishing method that expresses personal thoughts, network links, and content, arranged in chronological order, and constantly updated." Simply put, Blogger is a type of person who is used to writing diaries online.

The Chinese translation of Blog

There is actually a lot of debate about the Chinese name of Blog/Blogger. Some are called "blogs", others are called "blogs", and Taiwan also calls them "blogs". It's called "Blogger/Blogger".

A few words about Blog

It is the fourth way of network communication after Email, BBS, and ICQ.

Personal "Reader's Digest" in the Internet age.

An online diary using hyperlinks as weapons.

Magellan in the Information Age.

It represents a new way of life and a new way of working, and it also represents a new way of learning. Through blogging, I can learn a lot myself and let others learn more.

Represents "News Media Version 3.0": old media → new media → wemedia.

Types of Blog

1. Basic Blog: The simplest form of Blog. Individual authors provide relevant resources and publish brief reviews on specific topics. These topics cover almost all areas of humankind.

2. Group blog: A simple variation of the basic blog. Some group members complete the blog log at the same time. Sometimes the author can not only edit his own content, but also edit other people's entries. This form of blogging allows group members to discuss the same topics and even negotiate together to complete the same project.

3. Blogs between relatives and friends: The members of this type of blog are mainly composed of relatives or friends. They are members of a living circle, a family or a group of project teams.

4. Collaborative blog: Similar to group blog, its main purpose is to make participants reach agreement on certain methods or issues through joint discussion. Collaborative blog is usually defined as A blog that allows anyone to participate, post comments, and discuss issues.

5. Public *** community blog: Public *** publishing was popular for a period of time a few years ago, but disappeared because there was no lasting and effective business model. Cheap blogs have the same goals as this public publishing system, but are easier to use, less expensive, and therefore easier to survive.

6. Commercial, enterprise, and advertising blogs: The management of this type of blog is similar to the WEB advertising management of ordinary websites.

7. Knowledge base blog, or K-LOG: Blog-based knowledge management will become more and more widespread, allowing enterprises to effectively control and manage the knowledge that was originally owned by some staff and stored in the database. Files or information on a personal computer. Knowledge base blogs provide news organizations, educational institutions, commercial enterprises and individuals with an important internal management tool.

How Blogs Exist

1. Hosted blogs: There is no need to register a domain name, rent space and compile a web page. You can have your own Blog space by registering for free. It is the most " "Quicker, more economical" approach.

2. Bloggers who build their own independent websites: have their own domain name, space and page style, which require certain conditions.

3. Affiliated Blogger: Use your blog as part of a website (such as a column, a channel or an address). These three categories can evolve, and you can even have both, with one person owning multiple blog sites.

The main function of blogs

Publishing ideas

Blogs allow individuals to express their voices on the Web. This is a place to collect and share anything that interests you - be it political commentary, personal diaries, or links to sites you want to remember.

Many people use blogs simply to organize their thoughts, while some use them to gain influence among thousands of viewers around the world. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while people who keep journals use blogs to express their innermost thoughts.

No matter what opinions you want to express, Blog can help you express them.

Get feedback

The blogging experience is not just about publishing your thoughts on the web, but also about getting feedback and communicating with like-minded people. Blogs allow site readers from around the world to provide feedback on the content you share on your blog. You can choose whether to allow comments on a per-post basis (and you can delete any comments you don't like). Group blogs are a great communication tool for small teams, families, or other groups, giving your group a dedicated space on the Web to share news, links, and ideas.

Find netizens

Blog profile allows you to find people with similar interests and blogs that interest you, and others can also find you through your profile. Your blog, your recent posts, and other information will be listed in the Blog profile. Clicking on content or locations that interest you will take you to other people's profiles, where you might find blogs that interest you.

Who is the father of Blog?

The emergence of Blog only happened in recent years, but writing the history of Blog is not an easy task. Many historical materials must be verified like digging for "antiques", and there are many disagreements and controversies. For example, who is the "Father of Blog"? It is impossible to have a clear answer to this question, because many famous people are involved.

The Best of Blogs

The Earliest Blog Prototype

First of all, which is the earliest Blog website? Obviously the earliest Blog served as a "filter" for the Internet. The effect appears. Therefore, some people believe that Mosaic’s What’s New webpage developed by browser inventor Marc Andreesen is the earliest Blog webpage. Justin Hall's underworld link web page is also one of the earliest blog website prototypes.

The earliest Blog prophet

Who was the earliest blogger? The famous science fiction writer William Gibson predicted professional blogs in 1996: "It won't be long before someone will browse for you. There is definitely a need to network, curate content, and make a living from it.”

The earliest Blogger

Userland CEO Dave Winer started Scripting News in 1997 and began to truly possess the basic important features of a blog. And he integrated these functions into the free software "Frontier Scripting Environment". However, there is a lot of controversy as to whether this is truly the earliest blog. Some people believe that, formally speaking, it was Jorn Barger who established the basic look of today's Blog website at the end of 1997.

The earliest use of Weblog

In December 1997, the "Robot Wisdom Weblog" run by Jorn Barger used the official name of weblog for the first time. He changed the meaning of log from the impersonal, quasi-objective, mechanical writing that is close to the navigation log, to the "humanized and personalized" free writing that is closer to the travel log.

Blog History

June 1993: The oldest blog prototype - NCSA's "What's New Page" web page, which mainly lists emerging website indexes on the Web, this page starts from It started in June 1993 and was updated until June 1996.

January 1994: Justin Hall opened "Justin's Home Page" (Justin's personal webpage), which soon began to collect links to various underground secrets. This important personal website can be regarded as one of the earliest blog sites. one.

April 1, 1997: Dave Winer begins publishing Scripting News. This website evolved from the early Davenet, which was first launched on October 7, 1994.

December 1997: Jorn Barger first used the term weblog to describe personal websites that have comments and links and are continuously updated.

May 7, 1998: Peter Merholz starts publishing the website peterme.com (from his own archives).

September 15, 1998: Memepool begins publishing, with the earliest link being about “Alex Chiu’s Eternal Life Device”.

1999: Peter Merholz named blog after the acronym "blog", which has become the most commonly used term today.

On May 28, 1999, Cam wrote in his personal blog site Camworld: "Dave Winer started the earliest blog site, Camworld need not hide, model and follow Scripting News."

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April 12, 2000: The Weblogs eGroups mailing list was terminated, and the originator dispute between Jorn Barger and Dave Winer became public.

August 22, 2000: Wine posts on the FoRK mailing list, and a quarrel breaks out.

October 2000: Jakob Neilsen said: "...the average blog site is unreadable."

October 14, 2000: Dave Winer hinted that his Scripting News was the original blogging site, then elegantly gave that honor to his respected predecessor, WWW inventor Tim Berners- Lee.

November 2000: But Winer soon found another crown for itself, Scripting News changed the website's slogan to: The longest continuously running blog site on the Internet, started in April 1997 January 1st.

December 17, 2000: UserLand releases SuperOpenDirectory, hoping to become the de facto tool for directory creation.

September 11, 2001: Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, blogs became an important source of important information and first-hand experiences of the disaster. Since then, blogging has officially entered the mainstream society.

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The difference between Blog and BBS

BBS is a place where many people come together to discuss (much like an English corner) and is a free exchange A place blog (group type) is a group of people who gather together for the same goal or vision (much like a seminar) to study and discuss issues, and a personal blog is a record or record of the personal research process. Just like a personal diary

BBS is an open and free space for a loose group and serves the public. BBS was created to solve people's lack of opportunities to express their opinions freely

Blog is a highly private platform, targeting individuals and smaller groups with the same goals. , is to serve individuals.

With the popularization of the Internet, people's right to freedom of speech has been greatly improved. At this time, the need to highlight personal talents and express personality has become increasingly prominent, and Blogs came into being.

BBS uses post pinning and posting Organize posts (articles) in chronological order, and use classification methods to classify posts (articles), but classification users cannot change, only administrators have this permission

Blog uses a calendar method To organize articles (posts), but the Blog can classify articles (posts) by itself

BBS allows users to reply, but they must register (you can also register through settings). When you are in several After you have posted a post (article) on the BBS you are interested in, after a period of time, it will be difficult for you to find the post (article) you have posted. You can reply to the blog without registering. This is similar to BBS. In your blog The things you have written are always in your blog, and you can dispose of them as you wish

The BBS organization of posts (articles) is messy. When there are many posts (articles), when you look for information, you may be given a Large categories of useless information or duplicate information. Blog uses the RDF (Resource Description Framework) international standard to organize information. The document linked to the "XML" mark in each Blog is rss.xml or index.xml. This is the difference between BBS and Blog. The essential difference in technology

Major events in Chinese blogging

January 2000:

A Jian from Taiwan published an article "Online Recording: A New Content Form" The Rise of "

November 20, 2001:

Dan Gillmor, a famous IT blogger in Silicon Valley, preached about blogging at the "Tsinghua Sunshine Media Forum"

August 2002 Month:

Sun Jianhua published "On Blogs", the first comprehensive discussion of blogging phenomenon, history and concepts

September 5, 2002:

" China Youth Daily" and "Southern Weekend" paid significant attention to the Chinese blogging phenomenon

January 2003:

Hubei Blogdriver was launched and began to provide blog hosting services (ASBlog)

February 28, 2003:

The corporate channel of Qianlong News Network launched "Blog Online". This was the first domestic government news network media to promote the theme of "Blog" for the first time. News column

May 2004:

At the "China Internet" conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, blogging became the first keyword of the conference

Blog Site

Chinese Blog Service Station

- Blog China

- Traditional Chinese Blog Information Center

- BlogBus.com

- Blogcn.com

- Blog Power

- CSDN Blog

- Sina Blog

- Google Blog [Multiple Countries Language]

- Microsoft Blog [Multiple Languages]

- Donews Blog

- Tom Blog

- Bulog.Cn

Foreign Blog Service Station

- Blog.Com

- Blogdot.org

- blog-city.com

- rediffblog

- crimsonblog

- blogstudio

- TTR-relay

- Xanga.com

- 1sound.com

- Upsaid.com

- Deadjournal.com

- Blogger.com

- Movabletype

< p> - Livejournal

- b2: classy weblog tool

- GreyMatter

- Nucleus CMS

- Geeklog

< p> - diary-x.com

- blurty

- News-one.com

- blogdrive.com