CHAPTER1 BLOG BASICS logs did not exist until the 1990s Today millions of people write blogs and millions more like to read them MESSAGE BOARDS Before blogging became popular people used online message boards to share their thoughts and opinions Many of these sites still exist People use them to exchange ideas in the form of short messages or posts The posts make up a thread or conversation ONLINE JoURNALS Modern blogs developed from online journals Digital diaries first appeared in the early 1990s Computer experts wrote most of them because they were the only people who could build web pages They used a special computer language called Hypertext Markup Language HTML MoDERN BLOGs Blogs became popular when web developers took away all the technical parts of publishing a blog They created software that handled the HTML code making it easy for anyone to write and publish a blog on the
Skype BLOG BASICS BLOG EXPLOSION According to web expert Jesse James Garrett there were just 23 blogs on the Web in 1999 In 2012 this number had risen to more than 180 million and it is growing every day O Jesse James Garrett is a computer scientist and web expert who has studied the rise in popularity of blogs on the World Wide
dIn Linke WHAT IS A BLOG AND HOW DOUSE IT WHAT s News Blogs can cover everything from a major world event such as the Olympics to ale local happening such as a school debate News WRITERS Before 2000 professional journalists provided the news They wrote the stories based on fact and editors decided what was published shown on television or put on the radio As blogs became popular more people became self appointed online reporters and editors on the Internet Bloggers have created millions of news sources offering alternative versions and their opinions of the news IN THE NEWS Anything can be considered news if it is of interest to someone whether it is details of local meetings stories about a local sports team or what celebrities do in their spare time Blogs can be updated quickly so news can spread around the world within minutes FILLING THE GAP Blogs fill the gap between major news stories and comments and opinions on something only a few people find
Linkedin Skype BLOG BASICS Blogger POLITICAL BLOGS In the early days of blogging many people used blogs to comment on political events such as presidential campaigns Blogs gave people a platform on which to comment and question the views of politicians In some cases bloggers helped to break the news by bringing information to the public before professional journalists had time to publish their stories I Although Barack Obama never wrote a blog during his 2008 presidential election campaign many others used blogs to comment publicly on his campaign S CHANGE WE NEED CHANGE WINE WWW BARACK OBAMA COM CHANGE WE NEED
