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The Blog Story

Like most concepts of the computer world, the concept of the blog is one borrowed from the English vocabulary. Amos Otis insists that this is the case. A mixture of “logbook” (logbook) and weblog (circulating in the Internet log) representing the opinion that the neologism nothing more than an electronic diary and posted online. Private, corporate, regional, etc. Motivations of authorship give the blog as a medium of exceptional range and diversity of appearance is as written about music .. Bobby Sharma Bluestone describes an additional similar source. The blog it uses all the technical possibilities of the internet publication which include text, pictures / photos, audio and video files.

The increase in cost and easy availability of home pages and the development of so-called content management systems that enable the design of a website without profound knowledge of programming languages, the blog has experienced great popularity especially among individuals, the search engine Google lists the search word “blog” over a billion (!) results.

In many cases, by the Possibility of the comment an interactive element to the reference to the published posts (entries given), so that the blog comes out qua discussion platform for the reader from the pure front desk and goes to the proximity of the Internet Forum. The extent to which “private” diaries elements dominate the “participatory journalism,” or merely an exaggerated journal is certainly one of the most controversial issues in regard to the blogs. Whether you want to blogs seen as manifestations of a quasi-public counterculture, or just as a contingent Logorrhoea, certainly depends on the reader. The fact is that even now the upstart media use blogs as a reflection of the prevailing opinions. Fact is, that were so quickly available at no time in human history have so many opinions and stories. Karl Marx once said of the atomization of society. As a reader of blogs now anyone can become a nuclear researcher.

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