1. What is a Web log (blog)? Skills: reading and searching a blog
IT concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, wire-frame diagram, permalink, tag (label), long tail, captcha (anti spam)
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2. What is a Web log (blog)? Internet concepts Applications (blogs)
Technology
Implications
Internet skills
Application development
Content creation

4. A typical 2-column blog post
Post title and date
Post body
Additional
information
Footer

5. A B C E D F G

6. Blog post key A: Search all blog posts
B: Title and date of the posts in reverse chronological order
C: Text to speech reading of the post
D: Body of the post
E: Subscribe by or RSS
F: Links to other Web sites
G: Get the post in PDF format
Click on the title (B) for a permalink

7. Wait – what is a permalink again?
Every blog has a URL. For example, the URL of our class blog is:
Every post within a blog has its own URL, its permalink. For example, I wrote a post on the low cost of connectivity in Stockholm and other cities. The permalink URL for that individual post is:

8. Blog post footer F A A B C D E

9. Blog footer key A: Click on images to download and enlarge them
B: Permalink – a link to this particular post
C: Comments – read and leave comments
D: Links to blog posts that link to this one
E: Labels (tags) assigned to this post
F: Labels (tags) used on this blog

10. Blogs are mostly one-to-many, but … There may be several authors
Readers can comment
For example:
A captcha

11. Comment moderation, a necessary bother

12. Video: blogs in plain english

13. Just before the end of the video, he characterizes blogs as providing
“news that appeals to a high number of small audiences”
Technorati had indexed 133,000,000 blogs as of January 2010

14. The long tail

15. What is a Web log (blog)? Skills: reading and searching a blog
IT concepts: blog, subscription, one-to-many communication, wire-frame diagram, permalink, tag (label), long tail, captcha (anti spam)
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