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A blog site is a online content collection that contains blog posts by a single entity (often a blogger).
- AKA: Web Log, Weblog.
- Context:
- It can be supported by a Blogging Service.
- It can be a member of a Blogosphere.
- It can range from being a Personal Blog to being a Corporate Blog.
- It can range from being a Micro-Blog to being a Macro-Blog.
- It is a part of a Blogosphere.
- …
- Example(s):
- a Personal Blogs, such as: http://blog.gabormelli.com
- a Corporate Blog.
- a Vlog, such as [1].
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: User Generated Content.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere#Blogging_niches
- Within the blogosphere, several sub-communities have developed. These communities are largely divided by genre. Blogs are often identified by a specific genre or topic, such as travel or politics.
- News blogs have become so popular, they have created steep competition for traditional print newspaper and news magazines. The Huffington Post, ranked most powerful blog in the world by The Observer in 2008,[1] has become the go-to for breaking news for people around the world. It is only one of the many news blogs (often attached to printed publications) that have come to dominate current event reporting.
- Political blogs are often tied to a large media or news corporation, such as "The Caucus" (affiliated with The New York Times), "CNN Political Ticker", and the National Review's "The Corner."
- Gossip blogs are also a particular niche that has grown extensively with the development of the blogosphere. This movement can greatly be attributed to the popularity of Perez Hilton, a celebrity and entertainment media gossip blogger. His blog posts tabloid photographs of celebrities, accompanied by captions and comments. Web traffic to the often controversial and raunchy Perez Hilton site skyrocketed in 2005, prompting similar gossip blogs, such as TMZ.com, Jezebel, and the Superficial, to gain popularity.[2]
- Food blogs allow foodies and aspiring chefs alike to share recipes, cooking techniques, and food porn, for others to enjoy. Food blogs such as 101 Cookbooks, Smitten Kitchen, and Simply Recipes serve as a sort of online cookbook for followers, often containing restaurant critiques, product reviews, and step-by-step photography for recipes.
- Fashion blogs also became their own larger than life sub-community following the explosive growth of the blogosphere. Fashion-conscious consumers are offered an insider's view into the fashion industry thanks to blogs like Racked, The Cut, and Fashionista. Besides fashion news blogs, street style blogs have also become exceedingly popular. Bloggers like Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist), Tommy Ton (Jak and Jil), Jane Aldridge (Sea of Shoes), Bryan Grey-Yambao (Bryanboy), and Tavi Gevinson (Style Rookie) are all among a not-so-select group of fashion bloggers who now consider updating their blog a full-time job. These style mavens are able to earn considerable livings through advertising, selling their photos and even providing their services as photographers, stylists, and guest designers.
- Health blogs cover health topics, events and/or related content of the health industry and the general community. A health blog can cover diverse health related concerns such as nutrition and diet, fitness, weight control, diseases, disease management, societal trends affecting health, analysis about health, business of health and health research.
- Scientific blogs cover different scientific and mathematical topics. Some of these are written by leading researchers, others by interested laymen.
2011
- (Wikipedia, 2011) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- A 'blog (a blend of the term web log)[3] is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Although not a must, but most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.[4]
Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; yet still others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging or vlogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.
As of 16 February 2011[update], there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.[5]
- A 'blog (a blend of the term web log)[3] is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
- ↑ Template:Cite news
- ↑ The designation itself is mentioned in, among others, Gray, Tyler (2006-09-28). “Pop goes Perez: How a pudgy Miami poseur became gossip's new queen". Radar Online. Retrieved 2007-02-1
- ↑ Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000). "Weblogs: A History And Perspective". http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html.
- ↑ Mutum, Dilip; Wang, Qing (2010). "Consumer Generated Advertising in Blogs". In Neal M. Burns, Terry Daugherty, Matthew S. Eastin. Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption. 1. IGI Global. pp. 248–261.
- ↑ "BlogPulse". The Nielsen Company. February 16, 2011. http://www.blogpulse.com/. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blog
- S: (n) web log, blog (a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies) "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order"
- S: (v) blog (read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal)
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- QUOTE: … As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. [2]
- (Agarwal & Liu, 2009) ⇒ Nitin Agarwal, and Huan Liu. (2009). “Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere.” In: Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 1(1). doi:10.2200/S00213ED1V01Y200907DMK001
- QUOTE: … Blogs allow people to express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and share their experiences and ideas. Blogs also facilitate interactions among individuals creating a network with unique characteristics. Through the interactions individuals experience a sense of community. We elaborate on approaches that extract communities and cluster blogs based on information of the bloggers.
2008
- (Jijkoun et al., 2008) ⇒ Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Marx, and Maarten de Rijke\n. (2008). “Named Entity Normalization in User Generated Content.” In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2008). doi:10.1145/1390749.1390755
- QUOTE: We consider the NEN (named entity normalization) task within the setting of user generated content (UGC), such as blogs, discussion forums, or comments left behind by readers of online documents. For this type of textual data, the NEN task is particularly important within the settings of media and reputation analysis (which motivated the work reported here) and of intelligence gathering.
2005
- (Adamic & Glance, 2005) ⇒ Lada A. Adamic, and Natalie Glance. (2005). “The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: divided they blog.” In: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link Discovery. doi:10.1145/1134271.1134277
- QUOTE: … we analyze the posts of 40 "A-list" blogs over the period of two months preceding the U.S. Presidential Election of 2004, to study how often they referred to one another and to quantify the overlap in the topics they discussed, both within the liberal and conservative communities, and also across communities.
2004
- (Nardi et al., 2004) ⇒ Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, and Luke Swartz. (2004). “Why We Blog.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 47(12). doi:10.1145/1035134.1035163
- QUOTE: Blogging is sometimes viewed as a new, grassroots form of journalism and a way to shape democracy outside the mass media and conventional party politics [3]. Blog sites devoted to politics and punditry, as well as to sharing technical developments (such as www.slashdot.org), receive thousands of hits a day. But the vast majority of blogs are written by ordinary people for much smaller audiences. Here, we report the results of an ethnographic investigation of blogging in a sample of ordinary bloggers. We investigated blogging as a form of personal communication and expression, with a specific interest in uncovering the range of motivations driving individuals to create and maintain blogs.