1. Blogs, WIKIs, and RSS Oh my!

2. Introduction Blogs (What are they?) What is a Wiki anyway?
It’s becoming a Wiki world.
The RSS connection
Conclusion
References

3. Blogs: (What are they?)
A blog, or a weblog, is a web-based publication of periodic articles posted by an individual.
Blogs range from individual diaries, to political campaigns, media programs, and corporations.
They range in scale from the writings of one occasional author, or blogger, to the community of writers.
Some blogs enable visitors to leave comments, others are non-interactive.

4. Blogospheres and Blogstorms
The totality of weblogs is called the blogosphere. When a large amount of activity and information appears around a subject in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.

5. Growth of the Blogosphere

6. Spectacular growth
By the end of 2004, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, blogs were a key part of online culture:
7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people.
27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February.

7. Political blogs
Indeed some of the overall growth in blog readership is due to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users said they read political blogs “frequently” or “sometimes” during the campaign.
There are hosted services to start a blog: blogger, livejournal and Radio Userland, Pitas.com, Crimsonblog, Dairyland, etc.

8. A Popular site for the first time blogger

9. Blog of a Tiny Librarian

10. Blog of sleep

11. Blogs of Music

12. What is a Wiki? (not a Hawaiian cocktail)
Wikis comes from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," meaning "quick“. Wiki software allows users to create Web pages that can be edited by anybody who subscribes to the page. Some are tightly moderated with a formal peer review process, but most are self-policing.
Wiki with an upper case W and WikiWikiWeb are both used to refer specifically to the first wiki ever created (25 March 1995).
There was some discussion about the differences and similarities of a Blog and a Wiki. A Wiki was seen as a 'read/write' Web page. One use identified would be in the development of system administration documentation.  

13. It’s becoming a WIKI world.
Nearly a million wiki sites appeared since the The wiki world ranges from university community pages to an online encyclopedia.
The capability of a Wiki is that it is searchable and indexable which makes this an ideal application.
One problem of Wiki’s is that some are not easy to use, needing knowledge and experience of mark-up languages, although some have easy to use editors.But many of these have problems with different browsers on different platforms.

14. It’s a WiKi Wiki Web
As with Blogs, making a Wiki available to staff and students means implementing an acceptable use policy and also working on for exporting and maybe archiving the contents.
Uses for a Wiki could include:
-Virtual group study rooms
-Timetabling and course administration
-Shared resources for research groups
-User support and documentation

15. Wikipedia as a sample

16. The RSS Connection
RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. But this technology allows you to identify the content you like and have it delivered directly to you. It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

17. The RSS Connection
RSS readers. Rich site summary readers are the ultimate in labor saving devices for information hungry surfers. Rather than having to fire up your favorite sites or blogs, download a free reader from any number of providers and then tag the sites you want to follow (a tiny orange XML button tells you that an RSS feed is available). Around 6 million people, or 5% of the U.S. online audience, use RSS, according to a Pew survey.

18. The RSS Connection
Companies such as Yahoo! and Associated Press are adopting RSS to keep audiences loyal and to attract new users.The reader will then automatically search your chosen sites for updates and send headlines and story summaries straight to your desktop.

19. RSS sample

20. Conclusion
The appearance of Blogs, simplifies posting to the web, sometimes for free.
Wikis software allows users to comment and modify web sites.Web publishing becomes a dynamic process.
RSS reduces user’s information search time by having “aggregators” deliver specific information to personal blogs or websites .
This opens up new forms of communication for individuals and user groups.

21. References:
“The state of blogging” by Raine, Lee ( ) Pew Research Center Data Memo, January 2005.
Canadian Business and Current Affairs, April 1 , 2005, copyrighte 2005 Summit Group, Vol. 8, No. 3; Pg. 6; ISSN:
Blog on: The Essential Guide to Building Dynamic Weblogs. By Stauffer, Todd. Ed. McGraw-Hill, Berkely, CA 2002
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“Beyond Wikis, Blogs and other strange beasts”. By Bristow, Robert at Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century held at Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds on 22 November 2004.
Image from Wizard of OZ. © 1939 Loews, Inc. © renewed 1966 MGM.