Blogs enable interaction and invite others to reward a person’s creative effort with
feedback. They weave new social networks, introducing people with common
passions. Another reason why one should start blogging is dissemination of "microopinions"
important to a small audience – opinions that would never make it in
newspapers.
A widely dispersed audience depends on weblogs for filtered and disseminated
information as it plays an important role positioned outside the mainstream of mass
media.
Professional bloggers are experts in evaluating the nature of information sources; it is
not reasonable to assume that all readers can do the same. Readers depend on the
bloggers to provide them with their knowledge share. Weblogs point to, comment on,
and spread information according to their own idiosyncratic perspective. Readers
accept all information provided to them via blogs – all information – including articles
from a source that is a little wacky or has a strong agenda etc, but not an unethical
nature of source.
If it is felt that a well-written article can stand on its own only with ethically clear and
relevant sources. Readers may cease to trust a blog where disguised or unclear source
of an article is discovered. Making the sources clear or providing the readers all the
facts is important because it enables the reader to avoid evaluating the facts differently.
So, weblog’s ethical standards are designed in way that delineates the responsibilities
of weblog professionals and provide a clear code of conduct to ensure the integrity of
the news.
You can start your own blog. This unit will discuss how to create your own blog.
Starting Your Own Blog
As we have discussed earlier, blogs are posts that are short, informal and sometimes
deeply personal no matter what the topic of discussion is. They can be characterized by
their conversational tone. If you think the concept is new and you have not done
anything like blogging before, think again.
Whether a professional journalist or a teenage high school student, they all have been
doing the same thing: using blog to link to their friends and rivals and comment on
what they are doing. So, everybody blogs.
If a person has a web presence but is disappointed with static homepage - if an elegant
treatment of posts on a global platform is what they require, then ‘blogging’ is what
they require to do. One may also consider to blog if feedback is required from people
you have never heard of.
Weblogs, definitely, are the mavericks of the online world. Two of its greatest
strengths are their ability to filter and disseminate information to a widely dispersed
audience, and their position outside the mainstream of mass media.
Identifying & Choosing The Right Tools
Bloggers are constantly discovering new ways to express their ideas through new
markup. There are bloggers who are using the latest state-of-the-art "visual" web
design programs, but few others consider using HTML code is not a bad idea
altogether.
The XHTML family can accommodate extensions through XHTML modules and
techniques to develop new XHTML-conforming modules. These modules permit the
combination of existing and new feature sets when developing content and when
designing new user agents.
With so many different ways to access the Internet, the XHTML family is designed
keeping in mind the general user agent interoperability. Through document profiling
mechanism, servers, proxies, and user agents are able to create best effort content
transformation. This language is both RSS and XML conforming. The content can be
readily viewed, edited, and validated with standard XML tools. XHTML documents
can utilize applications (e.g. scripts and applets) that rely upon either the HTML
Document Object Model or the XML Document Object Model.
Bloggers may also use Movable Type for the weblog. Movable Type is a powerful,
customizable publishing system, which installs on web servers to enable bloggers to
manage and update weblogs. This enables a blogger to hand edit the other parts and
pages, including the Daily Links, in TextPad. Bloggers may use a date format string
for the individual entries, and for monthlies.
Movable Type Installation is followed by Plugins. There are many to choose from. MT
Plugin Directory and the Movable Type Support Forums are two resources that can be
referred to. Most of the plugins make users typographically correct and enables them to
properly use curly-quotes, ellipses, em-dashes, and en-dashes. A feature of pluggins
combines trackbacks (comments on other articles from other blogs) and comments into
one page. Another use is to create author comments and addendums in the comments
engine. Few plugins may allow bloggers to add additional fields, example: using
keywords field to create additional fields. Few others create a collection of links at the
bottom of each individual entry page. Title attributes can be used with all the links.
Movable Type includes a default RSS Feed. Bloggers may set up individual feeds for
each thread and comments feed by following the naming convention of individual
archives - changing it to an .xml ending. Bloggers may even add a Subscription Field.
Also, bloggers may consider using a WebDrive in place of a FTP client. This tool is
used to map FTP and WebDAV servers to a network drive letter in Windows using
remote files like local ones in any application. Blogger may also consider using
validated HTML 4.01 Transitional code with a validated stylesheet.
Blogs demand more than graphic design and HTML proficiency. They demand
extensive interaction with visitors. So, installing a Discussion Forum is a must, as it
allows communities to exchange ideas and opinions. Tools that could be considered
are database programming, CGI/Perl scripting, Flash animation etc.
In addition to this, bloggers may consider having an Accessory Sideblog - another blog
that stores ancillary information and tools for the existing blog.
Accessory Sideblog allows:
-Easy updation
-Changes in entries/ information from within Movable Type interface
-Availability of comments and trackbacks
Bloggers may consider buying opensource weblogging softwares. These easily
installable softwares offer features like: fully-integrated comments, searching, file
uploading and image handling, completely customizable output through dozens of
templates and variables, multiple author support, etc. For example: few blogs allow
bloggers to provide a template of their page that indicates where they want your posts
to appear. Clicking the "Publish" button automatically sends their new page to the
website where they want their blogs to appear. Similarly, there are sites that enable
bloggers to place the RSS feed of their blog onto any html page. For example: bloggers
can copy the completed JavaScript and paste it on any web page they would like to
distribute.
Bloggers can host their blog on their own as well with any good web-hosting company.
They can choose a good web host, buy space on their server and host their blogs with
them.
The details of few of the blog creating softwares are mentioned below:
FactoSystem Weblog (ASP based)
FactoSystem Weblog↗
Facto is a collaborative web publishing system. The system can be used for creating personal or group 'Blog' type sites. It is written entirely in Active Server Pages (ASP) and can use Microsoft Access or SQL Server as a database backend. Its development status is : 4 - Beta, 5 - Production/Stable and environment in which it runs is web environment, Win32 (MS Windows). The intended audience is defined to be end users/desktop, other audience and system administrators. The software’s natural language is English. The operating system that is required is Windows 95/98/2000 and the programming languages used are ASP and JavaScript. It is mostly used for message boards and site management.
Facto can be a customized. One can try coding to "render a blurb in HTML" to be in a separate file. It relies on the BlurbRS recordset having the correct field names with the SQL in some of the other files. Instead of querying the Comments table every time it displays a blurb. The layout can also be changed as some people may not require the left or right columns. A function on the routines page can be created that displays the blurb as required. The searchresults page then needs to be fixed since a different name for the blurb is used to do this.
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Facto is a collaborative web publishing system. The system can be used for creating personal or group 'Blog' type sites. It is written entirely in Active Server Pages (ASP) and can use Microsoft Access or SQL Server as a database backend. Its development status is : 4 - Beta, 5 - Production/Stable and environment in which it runs is web environment, Win32 (MS Windows). The intended audience is defined to be end users/desktop, other audience and system administrators. The software’s natural language is English. The operating system that is required is Windows 95/98/2000 and the programming languages used are ASP and JavaScript. It is mostly used for message boards and site management.
Facto can be a customized. One can try coding to "render a blurb in HTML" to be in a separate file. It relies on the BlurbRS recordset having the correct field names with the SQL in some of the other files. Instead of querying the Comments table every time it displays a blurb. The layout can also be changed as some people may not require the left or right columns. A function on the routines page can be created that displays the blurb as required. The searchresults page then needs to be fixed since a different name for the blurb is used to do this.
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