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    This document outlines a lecture on blogs and RSS feeds. It discusses the history of publishing from hieroglyphs to the printing press to blogs. Blogs are defined as web logs that allow chronological, time-stamped posts, making them easier to create than traditional websites. The lecture covers the basics of blogging, the different types of blogs that make up the blogosphere, and the options of hosted versus self-hosted blogs, as well as some issues with blogging.

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    10-Sep-19

    LECTURE 2: BLOGS
    AND RSS FEEDS
    SKM4263: Multimedia Internet

    LECTURE OUTLINE
    • Background
    • Traditional websites vs blogs
    • Blogging basics
    • Blogosphere
    • Hosted vs self-hosted blogs
    • Issues on blogging

    BACKGROUND
    • History of publishing

    • Hieroglyphs

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    BACKGROUND
    • History of publishing

    • Printing press

    BACKGROUND
    • History of publishing

    • Blogs

    BACKGROUND
    • Blog  “web logs”
    • Coined by Peter Merholz in 1999

    • Logging interesting sites

    • Later with Blogger.com  more journal-like

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    TRADITIONAL WEBSITES
    VS BLOGS
    Traditional Websites Blogs
    No fixed order Chronological
    No fixed time-stamp Time-stamped
    Harder, needs knowledge Easy and fast to create
    in web design
    Free hosting is limited, Free hosting is
    ad-supported fully-functional, ad-free
    Requires purchase of Doesn’t require purchase
    domain name of domain name

    RSS FEEDS
    • Really Simple Syndication

    • Automatic syndication of content

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    RSS FEEDS

    3
    10-Sep-19

    BLOGGING BASICS
    • What do you need?

    • Blog server
    • Blog post
    • Timestamp
    • Permalinks: citations of other blogs
    • Blogrolls: collection of links to other blogs
    • Inlinks and outlinks

    10

    BLOGOSPHERE

    11

    BLOGOSPHERE
    • World of blogs

    • Traditional blogs are LONG!


    • Average post length 119-2140 words

    • Microblogs
    • Restricted length (~140 characters / ++)
    • E.g. Twitter, Sina Weibo
    • #, @, RT, //, DM, follow, timeline

    • Photo blogs, video blogs, etc.

    12

    4
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    HOSTED VS SELF-HOSTED
    BLOGS
    • Hosted
    • Freely available
    • Easy to create
    • E.g. Blogspot, WordPress

    • Self-hosted
    • Files hosted on own servers
    • Easy to customize
    • E.g. WordPress

    13

    ISSUES ON BLOGGING
    • Truth?

    • Power?

    • Information propagation?

    • Over-sharing?

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    Questions?

    15

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    SUMMARY
    • Publishing progressed from hieroglyphs  printing press  blogs

    • Coined by Peter Merholz

    • Blogs are chronological and time-stamped, unlike traditional


    websites

    • Basic components needed to create blogs

    • Blogosphere has different types of blogs

    • Hosted vs self-hosted blogs

    • Issues on blogging

    16

    QUIZ – NOW!

    • On GOALS
    • SKM4263-7 group

    • Assessment: Overview of Web 2.0


    • 60 multiple-choice questions

    • Class Leaderboard!

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