Lesson 2 (Week 41) (used completely)

Introduction to Blogging Workshop
(Blogging; A ctitical Introduction)

Week 2 lessons were a continuation of the previous lectures and seminars (the explanation of digital cultures and blogging), however going into more detail, starting from the basics and developing into useful information that will help us excel in our work over the year.

Lecture:

Blogging is the recording of a short and concise web entry, like a diary; however, the posts are saved in chronological order and so viewed backwards on the web service site 'Blogger'. 

"Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003."

[ google search: Blogger (service). ]

Blogger Brainstorm (class task);

Blogging is seen to some, not just as a way of communicating, but also as personal entertainment. Since the development of blogger (in September 2009), blogger  has been known as a technological novelty, in which one person or a group of people collectively can express there thoughts and opinions on a subject of their choice. Its impact on politics and education has been massive.

The orgins of Blogger are an adaptation of another type of 
recording- ships logs. In Navy language, any sort of continous record is called a log. Offiical logs were kept on ships; this was originally navigational records, however extended to recordings of important ship dutties.
A Navy ship's deck log is a daily chronology of certain events for administrative and legal purposes, most of these logs are kept on board the Navy ships: although not permanently.

Origins of the term blog:    web+ log = blog

Web= the internet

Log= An account or recording like a ships log or diary entry

Blog= An account of information in chronological order, saved on the internet.

“a frequently updated Website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first”

                                Jill Walker Rettberg, 2005

Blogs are additonally said to be:

• An expression of personality
• Written in the 1^st person
• More than just a diary
• Made so that people can contribute in terms of comments
• Ways of socialising
• Political
• a way of advertising
• a way of being heard
• not just about 

 What Blogger has that other information sources do not:

•  Blog links
•  Blog roll
• advertising
• embbeded media (you-tube videos)

Examples that show media in a positive light are below as well as a percentage showing how useful it may or may not be. Ive included this table as it has been taken from an academic book, as well as this, it is the findings from a survey meaning it is factual data. Although taken form the years 2005-6 I believe it is still a valid souurce of information as it was less that a decade ago. 

Seminar: In the lesson, as well as introduction and the basics, we also covered how to use blogger and discussed whether or not blogger was nessessary. It was discovered that blogger is an easyily usable accessable site due to it being it's free and simple.

Additionally int eh seminar we went ove what type of meduim blogger is.

Mediums and what medium blogging is...

Above is an explanation of mediums, as a class we discussed this and came to the conclusion that a blog falls under the medium catergory 'one to many' if the blog has been made by one person and can be view by than one or 'many to many' as some blogs are made by a group of people collectivelly.