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Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journanism, differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news. Bloggers and other contributors to user generated content are behind Time magazine naming
their 2006 person of the year as "you".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs


a weblog is part of communities. No weblog stands alone, they are relative to each other and to the world. The Link and Think project, as an example, is part of the weblog community and part of the World AIDS Day community. My weblog, Scripting News, is part of the weblog community and part of the community of independent developers, particularly those using scripting environments. The same can be said of most weblogs that gain audiences, they connect people together using the Web through common interests.
http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/personalWebPublishingCommunities
What are weblogs?,11/16/01, Dave Winer


Research approaches range from personal reflections, to critical analyses of segments of blogs, to corpus studies of blogs, to quantitative studies of blogging activity. Building on each other by offering both in-depth descriptions and broader pictures, these articles provide a wide-ranging look at the rhetorical implications of blogging.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html
Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture,Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota



Blogs can add a human voice to the library's web presence.
Blogs can encourage interaction between a library and the people it serves.
This interaction can transform the typical flow of information into a shared exchange between people with like minded goals.
http://www.walkingpaper.org/presentation/
Weblogs and Community:The Right Questions to Ask, September 2005, Aaron Schmidt


A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in choronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs

Links

http://www.iturls.com/TechHotspot/TH_weblog.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs

http://www.walkingpaper.org/presentation/

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html

http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/personalWebPublishingCommunities

Bibliography

Laura Gurak, Similjana Antonijevis, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman,
"Introduction" Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture" in Into The Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs, Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. June 2007
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html
included many information about weblogs, many useful information



Standard,(8-10-07), Mumbai babe's brazen blog takes puritanical India by storm
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/071007/318/2h1mu.html
A news about an Indian girl writing a really explicit blog, but in India, it's very weird.



SCMP,(1-9-07), Virtual voices, Jeremy Goldkorn and Maya Alexandri
The noise of public on the web has destroyed the restrictions on websites in China.
Know more about situation in China



SCMP,(8-3-07), Interent police keep fight grip on blogs, Vivian Wu
Related to the previous news. It showed how the officers of Chinese government contorl the posts for weblogs. Another side to look at this problem of China.



Standard,(24-9-07), Portal operators eager to share the spoils of blog-generated ads
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070923/318/2g75e.html
Mentioned different website that allowed people to open a weblog in China.
Clearer about the situation.



Standard,(7-9-07), Vietnam goes blog crazy, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070906/318/2f5ka.html
About situation in Vietnam, the first time I know about situation in it, quite surprising about the great spreaded out in it.



Standard,(10-7-07), Rival defiant over fake photo link to murder, ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070709/318/2b3y4.html
A case in Malaysia that posting political wrong post lead to the death of a preson. Very short story

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/google/google-blogs-alert-launches.asp

Mainly talks about google, many links, can find many different topics

Blogs Will Change Your Business , May,2005,Stephen Baker and Heather Green

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm

About business, how many people gain money from blog,seems reliable

http://onward.justia.com/cat-blogs.html

An example of which weblogs related to the business. It's a kind of promotion of this firm. Hard sell.

http://www.thehammer.ca/content/view.php?news=2006-01-10-blogs-humans-earth

An extrodinate example

weblogs: a history and perspective, September,2000, rebecca blood

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Quite long, worth seeing

useful visual materials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbxSAUPp8TI
a video talking about the relationship between weblogs and business
BYU eBusiness Center Lecture, Feb2003
it helps to see this issue in a different perspective

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J726T53peEc
an inerview of a developer of a weblogs company, we can know more about the situation of weblogs and the problems faces where launching a weblog
Shiny Media interview Jason Calacanis of Mahalo & Weblogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyMP-xLihFk
talk about the features of weblogs and its develpoment, how it functioned, what's the benefit,etc. but really long
User Classification For Informal Online Politcal Discourse by Robert Malufo,January,2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9F2X2Sw6Y0
talked about the important of weblogs and its relationship with technology,different between weblogs and other media
John Blossom - What is a blog?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTLXmElYUA
a clip talking mainly about technology and communication. Also about the founding of weblogs, and the impact on our lives

Questions on weblogs and community

1. Do bloggers have some typical characters? (maybe people using blog have some common)

2. Is it a kind of breaking through others' lives when we lookat teir blogs?

3. Why people like to write on blog?

4. Is using blog a trend? People using blog really want to do so or just because it has become a trend?

5. Do people tell lies on blog? Is it necassray to tell all the truth in the blog?

6. Does weblogs benefit out lives? Is there any bad impacts?

7. Do people show the different side of them in blog? (because other people may not know who are thay when they write on blogs or leave comments)

Why I choose this topic?

Nowadays, internet has many relationships with our everyday lives. Many people share their lives, feelings, experience, information, etc. on the internet.


Using weblogs is a way to share our lives with others. We may have the experiences of writing diary in the past, but it was very different from writing on weblogs. When we wrote diary in the past, we were actually writing on some papers and using a pen. We always added a lock to the diary and won't let people to see it without our permission. Sometimes we didn't allow anyone to see it. But for weblogs, we are typing something on the computer and post it on the web. In this case, many people can see our diary, no matter we know the person or not. We can't always block others from surfing our weblogs.


I have my own blog on xanga and I always talk about things around me. I think diary is very different from weblogs because we write it privately. I am interested about the different between writing diary and weblogs. Many people have a weblog (or even more than one), I think some of them may have many different reasons for writing a weblogs. Also, some people using weblogs are still writing a diary, the things mentioned in them may be very different. I think it is a very interesting issue.


Many people think that weblogs are in an unreal world, the bloggers always write about something unreal or by their imagination. I think this mustn't be true. In the blog, we can share our lives with people around us. We can also express our feeling in the blogs. It can be a way to build up a closer relationship with others. When seeing others' weblogs, we can know about the bloggers. It happens also when people see our blogs. It involves interaction and maybe we can meet more friends by this.


Using weblogs has been a great trend and it is still growing. It is worth examined. There would be many interesting finding inside.