After a long time browsing the internet, including blogs, I am interested also want to give opinions and comments about "What is Web logs, or more popularly called Blog."
All the people when asked about the definition in the Web log or blog and what is the difference with the website it will give different answers but would identify more or less the same, which tend to a personal blog and its content comes from a personal standpoint. whereas the opposite site.
If based on the dictionary meaning it will be in the can as below:
Web = World Internet along with insinya, or like to be called Cyber World
Site = Place or Location
Log = Booked
My own opinion about the definition of just simple blog, that blog is "personal Bookkeeping us in the Internet world."
If we make a periodic records of any note, for example, address lists, poetry, important events, food menus, and we write in books or other materials that exist in the real world, then we can call this diary or journal or diary , and if we write in the internet world then it's called "Blog".
Ok .. to read more about "What is a Blog ..??" below I copy writing Bang Enda Nasution, the senior blogger who likes to be called the "Father Blog Indonesia.dia write at length about this problem.
Please read the writings ....!
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Animals Who Called BLOG
You're there in front of the computer, the modem is installed and ready to surf the Internet, what websites are attractive now? What are "trend" on the Internet? Links anything interesting? Do not worry, there are many Blogs out there who can guide you, and there are quite a lot of details and personal comments that you can enjoy from each blogger. Through their blog, Blogger has won loyal audiences and introduce their private lives in us all.
What is a Blog?
Blog is short for Weblog, a term first used by Jorn Barger in December 1997. Jorn Barger use the term to describe a group Weblog personal website is always updated continuously and contains links to other websites that they find interesting along with the comments of their own.
Blog then developed to find the form in accordance with the wishes of the author or the blogger. Blog which was originally a "track record" someone on the Internet, which links to websites visited and considered attractive, then became much more interesting than a list of links. This is because the Blogger usually also do not forget to fasten the comments "smart" their personal opinions and even express their sarcasm on the link they make.
From the comments were usually blog then becomes a window that allows us to "peek" the contents of the head and the daily life of its creator. Blogs are an easy way to get to know someone's personality Blogger. The topics of what she likes and she did not like, what did he think of the links that she chose, what the response on an issue. Usually depicted entirely clear from his blog. Because it is a very personal blog. Roger Yim, a columnist for the San Francisco Gate article in February 2001, wrote that a Blog is a cross between one's diary and a list of links on the Internet. Who's Scott Rosenberg in his column in the online magazine Salon in May 1999 concludes that the blog is in the restriction site is more lifeless than just a collection of links but less instrospektif than just a diary that is stored on the internet.
Other developments from the blog that is when then blog even no longer contain the links but just be writing about what a blogger think, feel, to what he does everyday. Blog Online Diary then also be located on the Internet. The only thing that distinguishes blog diary or journal of what we usually have is that the blog created to read others. The Bloggers with deliberately designing his blog and its contents to be enjoyed by others.
History Blog
The first blog is most likely the 'Whats New on the Mosaic browser made by Marc Andersen in 1993. If we still remember, Mosaic was the first browser before the Internet Explorer even before Netscape. Then in January 1994 Justin Hall started his personal website 'Justins Home Page which later turned into Links from the Underground which may be called as the first blog as we know it today.
Until in 1998, the number of existing blog out there has not been much. This is because the time required expertise and specialized knowledge of website creation, HTML, and web hosting to create a blog, so that only those who are involved in the Internet, System Administrator or Web Designer who later in his spare time creating a blog-blog of their own.
In August 1999 a Silicon Valley company called Pyra Labs launched its Blogger.com service that allows anyone with basic knowledge about HTML to create his own blog online and free. Although before that (July 1999) making blog online service that Pitas and the games have been there and have created Blogger to grow to hundreds, but the number of blog never multiply so much that Blogger.com appears in the world of the blog's. Blogger.com itself now has up to 100,000 Bloggers who use their services with growth of around 20% per month. Blogger.com and Pitas certainly not alone, creator of the blog online services provided also by Grouksoup Edit this Page and also Velocinews.
Since then the blog became bolder grow up to more and more difficult to follow. Eatonweb Portal is one of the most comprehensive list of blog that now exist between the list of other blog. Thousands Blog then appeared and each choose a topic bahasannya own, starting from how to be a good parent, hobbies watching movies, political topics, health, sex, sports, comic books and everything else. Even Blogger is blog about weird stuff sold on Ebay auction site called Who Would By That? . Cameron Barrett wrote on his blog essay entitled Anatomy of a Weblog that explains the theme of the Blog. "Blogs are often highly focused on a unique subject that is a basic topic and / or a concept that brings together the themes of the blog." Simply put the topic of a blog is an area of the Bloggers his powers without any editors or bosses who interfered, theme Any crazy can usually be found in line with the increasing emergence of Blogs on the Internet. And yes, the idea was unthinkable, even now that Blogger has made a blog from Blog, and even Blog from Blog of Blogs.
Of which there are so many Blogs, a blog-blog that set the standards of the famous Blog and so have the fans own them are Jorn Barger's blog, Robot Wisdom, which was mentioned is the largest and most useful blog where every day he held out the many links established from his interest in art and technology. Camworld is a popular blog owned by Cameron Barret an Interactive Designer where he categorize topics of his blog in the category, Random Thoughts, Web Design and New Media. Camworld can be called a classic in the sense of Blogs Blog contains the proper dose of character and personal opinions mixed with keselektifan selection of the link.
Other notable blogs such as, "Obscure Store" owned by Jim Romenesko http://www.obscurestore.com/ which provides a link themed news and gossip and little things that lead to the underground movement slightly, Lawrence Lee also every day to update his blog , 'Tomalaks Realm with links to news about Web Design and Net Business. Memepool with its choice collection of unique links with intelligent analysis is also popular as a special blog. Kottke.org is an interesting blog of Jason Kottke a Web Designer who lives in San Francisco, on his blog he writes that his blog is a way to fill spare time to reconstitute the writings, designs and critical of his skills. Do not forget Dave Winer's blog, Scripting News, one of the first blog that provides many links about programming.
Blogger
Who is the Blogger on the Internet this? Rebecca Blood on his blog 'Rebeccas Pocket said that the Blogger beginning was they who have taught themselves HTML because they enjoy it, or those who after a day working in their dot.com office, and then leaving a few hours of free time each day for do web surfing and put the results on their blog. They are what he called the people who enthusiastically on the web. "These were the resource web enthusiast." He wrote. Evan Williams, founder of Blogger.com argued, "The majority of Bloggers are young children or students. And many of those who use it to communicate with his friends. ".
Any person can of course make his blog each, but as Evan said, Blogger is mostly composed of dynamic young diary writer, offbeat and have an opinion for everything. In other words they are the generation who are not afraid of opinion and express their opinions.
So what's the point making Blog? What may be obtained by a blogger in an attempt to manage the blog? Rabecca Blood wrote that after he made his blog there are two side effects that occurred that he did not expect before. First he rediscovered his interest since he started making blog. And the second thing is more important, he began to better appreciate their own worldview.
When every day he updated his blog he began to consider the opinions and ideas more carefully and he began to feel that is unique and important perspective to be expressed.
When a blogger writes what's on his mind, he will often be confronted with the thoughts and his own opinion. Write a blog, or blogging, every day would make Blogger a more confident writer. With accustomed to express his thoughts on his blog, a Blogger can better articulate his opinions. Blogs can even be a kind of mental therapy.
Of course not everyone is a Natural-Born Blogger and can produce an interesting blog. Somewhere out there there are many who feel the need to document the Blogger himself every time he sneezes, or young children who wrote "I am bored" or "School Sucks!" Every three hours. Amy Jo Kim a consultant and author of "Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Succesful Online Communities", writes that it takes some special basic requirements to become a blogger, namely the ability to express themselves, the desire to communicate with the crowd and personal interests the "candor".
Blogs seem to make his own way of life, thoughts, opinions and activities have a purpose Bloggernya more and more regularly.
Community Blogs and Digital Culture
In line with the personality of a blog, the blogger or editor of a blog usually receives also contributions from the audience of the unique link his blog. Some websites Blog also receive feedback on the opinions and comments of a link an article or an issue that was published. Blogs are interactive and thus also building up the community of Bloggers who each had a blog link them to each other.
The Blogger Blog represented by their express friendship, hostility, and often do they fit into the debate their own blog, which they link the beginning of the opinion that their commentary. A conversation can develop between 3 to 4 Blog as well as he refers to their answers on another blog. Blog personal cult in particular popping up, some names appear and reappear Blogger on Blog daily updates diidolakannya person, or the name appears on a list of other Blogger blog was to follow.
Blogs are a separate digital culture and electronic communities scattered on the internet and with so many Blogs on the Internet are always looking for websites that attract the blog to be unique. As Cameron Barrett wrote that blog right now is an accurate indicator of what is happening on the Internet and in the web community. "Blogs are a symbol of what's great about the Internet." He wrote.
Keinteraktifan is another thing which is obtained from the Blog. Internet not only allows the blogger to give their opinions and comments about an issue, but also allows blog readers also wrote his opinion about the opinion that he read. Pros, cons, links, additional information, new facts, then all contained in one big blog sites. Jon Katz in his writings on Slashdot, Here Come The Weblog, May 1999, describes the blog as a series of evolution towards the "New Media". Blogs successfully demonstrated many things about the preferred interactive culture of people, especially young children, he wrote.
One of the famous Blog Slashdot keinteraktifannya is famous for its motto "News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters "which is managed by a moderator. On Slashdot an opinion to produce so many more pros or cons of the comments are supported with links that they contribute.
One Community Blogs also need to be visited is MetaFilter. If a lot more personal blog, controlled and written by one person, or reflects one person, then the category of Community Blogs, like MetaFilter contributions from many people living where every day the bloggers are equally MetaFilter filled with links to them where they write their comments as well in it. There are currently 13,511 active members at MetaFilter, where each link is donated to MetaFilter course could then be commented on by other bloggers anymore. Interaction is one of the strong attraction of the blog.
Keinteraktifan Blog is one of the factors that support its popularity. The conventional media is one-way transformed into a place where everyone gets a voice, though not necessarily valuable. Blogs have the opposite structure of the conventional media is a top-down, boring and arrogant, says Jon Katz. Blogs also are a good example of evolution eleltronik community and the ability of people online who make the media they own customization, Jon Katz continued. Own customized media in question, is separated from the media suspicions of the media as the mouthpiece of big corporations. Blogs are the future most likely the media we are witnessing now.
Cameron Barrett said the same thing, that the "Big Idea" of the Internet is the power of distributed information and blog-style journalism is journalism online media in a higher level. Rebecca Blood writes: With the comments and sarcasm fearless they Blogger reminds us how the conventional media often infected by vested-interest in making the news.
Blog with a tendency choosy news and articles and websites according to personal preference Blogger her, making as if the Web has been _filter_, The Web has been explored previously (_pre-surfed_) by Blogger, and we live to enjoy what has been provided by the Blogger on the blog that we like. Bloggers choose a link on the website and news of the most bizarre, most stupid, until the most complete or incomplete information from the Web. Jon Katz called Blog, Filtered News. Blog as a sieve The Web has saved us from chaos or kesentralan online information is now happening on the Internet.
Scott Rosenberg in his column in Salon wrote his opinion about the Blog and the Blogger. Bloggers, she writes, has found a niche (_niche_) a fertile new information in a Web environment. They fulfill the prophecy of the Internet visionaries of the emergence of new kinds of online journalists, but the difference rather than looking for news in the real world, they are weeding out the internet to get news.
Bloggers by nature are not reporters, they serve as editors in the blog each and in a world with a culture medium that has been saturated, Blogs become the alternative voices voicing independent noise in each review. Blog is not a panacea for the culture that has been saturated with media, but hopefully one of the blog is written peredanya Rabecca Blood.
Having their own Blog and Blog Indonesia
The most recommended way to have his own blog is to register yourself at Blogger.com, learn a little basic HTML tutorials and Here you go! You already have your own blog. Blogger.com does not limit the number of Blogs that you can have, do not limit the length of the capacity of your blog. You can choose your blog interface design from a template that has been provided, or if you have mastered the HTML you can design it yourself or modify it. Blog you can be placed dilayanan free website such as Tripod or Geocities or can be placed on the server that provided Blogger.com.
You can also get tutorials and ask questions about Blog on discussion forums provided by Blogger.com. How to fill your blog is to go to Blogger.com and write in areas that have been provided, or use the facilities provided by Blogger.com, where with one click you can link to a website that is you see and you can enter your comment. But most importantly you must prepare yourself for organizing more opinions and your opinions and practice of critical muscle you have.
What makes a good comment is a comment? Resource Weblog give some tips. Ideally, your comment will need to explain about the link that you made and why you put those links. A comment is not enough just to say the link is cool for example, these comments are not useful for your blog visitors. Quick tips are most useful? Be your own self, and begin to write your own blog.
What is the Blogger Indonesia? Yep .. Websites that register the Blogger Indonesia, which Indo.Blogs. The sole criteria for your blog listed on Indo.Blogs only Indonesian nationals, regardless of geographic location you are.
Indo.Blogs register about 40-an existing blog, overall there are roughly about 100 of Blogger Indonesia with personalitinya respectively. Most of the student or professional in the field of IT and Web Design. There are overall wearing partly English and partly to use Indonesian language used to mixing. Unfortunately many are not updated every day. The distance between one another can update with one month old and mostly more of a personal journal than a blog that contains many links. But most have an attractive design and simple blog, and Blogger Indonesia do not forget to include the friends of their blog as usual neatly performed by Blogger overseas.
So is there any Indonesian Community Blog? Yupe there. Please arahkah our browser to MSN.OR.ID. Bloggers here called "celetukers" because it is where each blogger is menyeletukan something then fill this website.
Currently there are 64 celetukers with their respective links to their blog. This website originated from those who used to chat on microsoft comic chat servers (irc.msn.com) and after the server is then closed, then the occupants and then set up this website.
More about the Community of Bloggers in Indonesia? Means you have to join the mailing list is the same. Bloggerians discussion mailing list is open to the community that forms the Blogger Indonesia since March 2001 and currently dianggotai by 45 members.
Blogger Indonesia majority still come from the website designer or system administrator, or those whose job is to make them familiar with the world to create a website. Even so, interesting discussions often occur there.
Second Generation
In his writings on the Star Telegram, Frances Katz (no relation to Jon Katz?) Writes that the blog is the second generation of Personal Home Page. The main difference between Home Page and Personal Blog namely, Personal Home Page is where you put family photos, photos of you and then distribute the information in a small circle of friends and family. Who's Blog is designed to "visitors". Blogs have a specific voice and personality. Blog hence is an interactive extension of the manufacturer.
Is the Blog is pure sound of new media as predicted? Or just digital trends? And will survive long does a blog-blog on the Internet? Of course, this answer needs to be answered by the blogger himself. Many people today have the idealism of the blog as a concept of decentralized information that restore the news back in the hands of its users and no longer monopolized by large corporations or media companies. Of course, still many years away we see if the concept originated from the culture and community this can happen or not. Critics of the current explosion in the number Blogs happened too many voiced. How much more pure sound Blogs can survive? The debate about this continues to happen on the Web. For now, for you who are interested in only one suggestion, BLOG ON!
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