The Journey So Far
Now that I look back on the previous post, it actually covered a lot of the ground that I had hoped to explore in my research, rather than being a "quick note before I launch into the main body of my research". In my next post I am going to look at some of the issues of subjectivity and authorship which ties into some of the issues of the interactive nature of blogging.
This post is really primarily an update on the progress of my research.
It seems to me that there is almost as much written about blogs as there are blogs themselves. The interest in them is amazing to me as it seems that those who are 'in the know' in the blogosphere know a lot, link a lot, and talk about blogging a lot. And those that don't... don't know anything of this world. One blogger was even quoted as saying "Blogging is my golf game", meaning that it is his way of networking and conversing with others. The term 'blogosphere' therefore accurately represents the sense that this is a whole other world with communities and interactivity.
Even if there is an iceberg of inactive blogs out there, it seems I have only touched upon the iceberg of online information and blogs about blogging. It's overwhelming! Kairosnews, for example, has 'Weblog Webliography' with 188 entries for online articles about blogging. I have my work cut out for me.
Rebecca Blood (2000) has commented that the first bloggers were "created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts." Nowadays, there are numerous free blog hosting sites such as Typepad, LiveJournal, Blogger, Xanga, and BlogEasy who allow for easy set up of blogs without their users needing to have any programming knowledge at all.
Although I consider myself relatively internet and technologically savvy, html programming is one thing that is definitely beyond me. Despite this, however, in the past week or so of research I have learnt how to set up a blog, post on my blog, make hypertext links within my posts to other sites, upload pictures into my post and blogger profile, how to add a 'site hit' counter for the number of pages visits, and how to add a 'Google' search feature to my blog.
These last two features were actually aided by online programmes that allow you to fill in the details and specifications you want and it will create the exact html codes to add to the html template of your blog. People often comment that future generations will need to be increasingly adaptable to new technology, however with online programmes such as these it may be possible for us to still let the computers do the thinking for us! It is aspects of technology like this that support the idea that technology is evolving to adapt to human needs, rather than the other way around.
This post is really primarily an update on the progress of my research.
It seems to me that there is almost as much written about blogs as there are blogs themselves. The interest in them is amazing to me as it seems that those who are 'in the know' in the blogosphere know a lot, link a lot, and talk about blogging a lot. And those that don't... don't know anything of this world. One blogger was even quoted as saying "Blogging is my golf game", meaning that it is his way of networking and conversing with others. The term 'blogosphere' therefore accurately represents the sense that this is a whole other world with communities and interactivity.
Even if there is an iceberg of inactive blogs out there, it seems I have only touched upon the iceberg of online information and blogs about blogging. It's overwhelming! Kairosnews, for example, has 'Weblog Webliography' with 188 entries for online articles about blogging. I have my work cut out for me.
Rebecca Blood (2000) has commented that the first bloggers were "created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts." Nowadays, there are numerous free blog hosting sites such as Typepad, LiveJournal, Blogger, Xanga, and BlogEasy who allow for easy set up of blogs without their users needing to have any programming knowledge at all.
Although I consider myself relatively internet and technologically savvy, html programming is one thing that is definitely beyond me. Despite this, however, in the past week or so of research I have learnt how to set up a blog, post on my blog, make hypertext links within my posts to other sites, upload pictures into my post and blogger profile, how to add a 'site hit' counter for the number of pages visits, and how to add a 'Google' search feature to my blog.
These last two features were actually aided by online programmes that allow you to fill in the details and specifications you want and it will create the exact html codes to add to the html template of your blog. People often comment that future generations will need to be increasingly adaptable to new technology, however with online programmes such as these it may be possible for us to still let the computers do the thinking for us! It is aspects of technology like this that support the idea that technology is evolving to adapt to human needs, rather than the other way around.
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