 What Is A Blog ? |
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  Sep 20 2004, 07:15 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ]  Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 19-September 04 Member No.: 723  |
Hello everyone ,
I was just curious to know what exactly is a blog .. one says it is a online dairy .. someone else says something else and so ooon .. so can somone gimme an exact idea of what ever is a BLOG ?? Thanks in advance ... 
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Sep 20 2004, 07:18 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: Members Posts: 1,366 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Nottingham England Member No.: 570 |
google for "define:Blog" QUOTE Definitions of Blog -- (weB LOG) on the Web:
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly. |
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Sep 20 2004, 07:30 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 19-September 04 Member No.: 723 |
humm ... I kinda like this ... now how do i create a blog .. any software that i need to install or can i use any premade scripts .. and if so can i run these blogs in the webspace provided from astahost .. ?? |
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Sep 20 2004, 07:41 PM
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death Group: Members Posts: 268 Joined: 8-September 04 Member No.: 384 |
you need rss reader available in most sever side scripts
and also there is commercial blog reader
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Sep 20 2004, 08:39 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 20-September 04 Member No.: 750 |
A blog for me is an online journal type of thing, I belong to sites such as www.xanga.com or www.livejournal.com ... they are both pretty cool.
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Sep 20 2004, 09:46 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 20-September 04 Member No.: 766 |
Ditto on Sue's comment. Blogging started of as a techno geek kind of trend (yea geeks!) but it's gotten really mainstream now, what with livejournal and xanga and all these pre-made blogging sites. A friend of mine has to create and keep a blog for his cyberculture class- an easy way to require effort and activity for a class, but something that's not completely irrelevant to the class topic.
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Sep 20 2004, 11:45 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 20-September 04 Member No.: 748 |
A blog is an online journal. Like the others said, some example are livejournal and xanga (these are the most popular ones).
Or you can make your own blog with some html and use blog resources: http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/blogLinksTools.htm I prefer xanga the most for my blog. There are a few really good sites (blogring.net and createblog.com) that provide awesome skins to use for xanga.
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Sep 21 2004, 11:48 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 382 Joined: 5-September 04 Member No.: 255 |
QUOTE(r3d @ Sep 20 2004, 07:41 PM) you need rss reader available in most sever side scripts and also there is commercial blog reader  You're referring to a news reader or aggregator here. A news reader basically allow you to subscribe to a blog that offers you RSS (really simple syndication) syndiation of the site. When you subscribe, any new posts on the blog will be automatically delivered to your news reader. An excellent free online news reader is Bloglines. To create a blog, you can either use online services like Livejournal, Xanga, etc. Some of the more popular ones are Blogger and Movable Type. In the Addon Scripts section of cpanel, there are also some blogging tools like Wordpress, which is supported by Astahost. |
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 Sep 21 2004, 12:46 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 19-September 04 Member No.: 723 |
QUOTE(jcguy @ Sep 21 2004, 01:48 PM) You're referring to a news reader or aggregator here. A news reader basically allow you to subscribe to a blog that offers you RSS (really simple syndication) syndiation of the site. When you subscribe, any new posts on the blog will be automatically delivered to your news reader. An excellent free online news reader is Bloglines. To create a blog, you can either use online services like Livejournal, Xanga, etc. Some of the more popular ones are Blogger and Movable Type. In the Addon Scripts section of cpanel, there are also some blogging tools like Wordpress, which is supported by Astahost. So .. u mean that I can create a blog here .. using Xanga .. I really wanna create a blog for myself... nooo.. do not think that I am a geek for all that .. no .. i am not .. i am just one ordinary person trying to make something out of his website ... 
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Sep 21 2004, 06:16 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 20-September 04 Member No.: 750 |
QUOTE(gokul @ Sep 21 2004, 12:46 PM) So .. u mean that I can create a blog here .. using Xanga .. I really wanna create a blog for myself... nooo.. do not think that I am a geek for all that .. no .. i am not .. i am just one ordinary person trying to make something out of his website ... Well, no you don't make one here ... if you go to xanga.com, you sign up for an account and you just have sort of a journal hosted on their site. It's really simple and easy, you don't have to worry about hosting it anywhere else. A blog is more or less just for you, at least in my opinion ... writing down your thoughts and what-not. |
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