More About Blogging

This week we have been asking you, our students, to dive right into blogging. But what is a blog? Well, this site is one for example. But how do we define it?

Here on the site, you can see some of the key elements. First, it is primarily about delivering text content. Note that the first page, where you are reading now, is all full of content, like a series of articles or stories. These articles are called, in blog terms, "posts."

Note, too, they run far longer than, say, a Facebook status update. Note that they are primarily content created by the blog's authors, rather than content from some other place that is shared with little or no commentary.

Watch this video: Blogs in Plain English

Also, consider the introduction and the history history segment of this article on Wikipedia:  Blogs.

As for Microblogging? Think a blog, but smaller: a few sentences, or a short burst of words. In some ways, Facebook's status updates are almost microblogging, but the classic example is Twitter.