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Monday, 27 September 2010

Research on Blogs

Research on Blogs

What is a Blog?
website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal while readers may comment on posts.


How blogs are different to normal sites?
Blogs are usually about a single person and there experiences.


This website gives moreinfomation on what a blog is: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/


Why people write blogs?
People write blogs as a way to express themselves and their knowledge or expertise. People read blogs as a source of information or because they find the writer interesting or share specific views with the writer.


What are the differences between blogs and normal websites?


I visited http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1124239 to discover what are the differences are between blogs and normal websites.


Advantages and Disadvantages of a Blog

Here are some of the advantages of Blogging
  • It is a way in which you can open up about what is on your mind.
  • It is easy to post new information and share this with other people without having to send it more than once.
Here are some disadvantages of blogging
  • Most people who have a large amount of time to write a blog tend not to have alot of interesting and compelling things to say.
  • They take up alot of time if you want to make a good and interesting blogg.
There are some more advantages and disadvantages of bloggs on ://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm  



Find three interesting stories about blogs and find out how it has changed peoples lives

Here are some stories that i have researched showing blogs and how they have changed peoples lives :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6386613.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4278241.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4099120.stm

How are comments useful on a Blog?
Comments posted on someones blog can help the blogger in many ways. One way is that these comments are advice or answers to questions that a blogger has posted. These comments will help solve the bloggers problem or suggest ideas to them.

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