weblog

In the early days of the Internet, web sites all looked pretty much the same. Choose a site at random and you would find a hierarchical structure consisting of a "home" age and one or more secondary pages.  In 2004, the term "Web 2.0" was coined to include new, more interactive sites that fostered a sense of community.

Weblogs constitute the most popular and widespread manifestations of Web 2.0. Unlike a traditional, structured web site, a weblog (or "blog") allows for and encourages communication between the web publisher, his/her readers, and between readers.  Most weblogs encourage comments, whereby readers add thoughts to the blog editor's articles, or ask questions.  There are a number of free or almost free weblog platforms - WordPress and Moveable Type are two of the most popular.

Weblogs also contain built in data streams called RSS Feeds.  An RSS feed allows the content of a weblog to appear anywhere a reader desires - in an RSS Reader, on a personalized iGoogle or My Yahoo page, or within the pages of another blog. An interested reader can subscribe to a weblog, consume the content however he wishes and never actually visit the weblog site again.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “weblog”

• India: Women Farmers Stand Against Climate Change

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  A group of women in India have demonstrated that despite the existing gender inequity and their low economic status, they can become a powerful resource to tackle climate change and reduce the emissions that cause it. In India, the most vulnerable populations to climate change — impoverished communities and ...
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• Shameless Self-Promotion, The Modest Need Not Apply

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  So, the League has nominated itself for the 2009 Weblog Awards in the “Best New Political Blog” category. If you’re of a mind to lend your support, please click the following link (scroll down a little ways) and then click the “+” button under Mark’s nomination. Nominations close on November 20 and ...
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• Cameroon: From “kind” thieves to mobile credit as legal tender

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  The nearly 20 million inhabitants of Cameroon are facing rising levels of criminality. Bandits even stormed the national headquarters of the police and the Ministry of External Relations (Foreign Affairs) in the capital city, Yaounde. PNT Attitude shared her experience with crime in a recent post describing how ...
  8 hours ago

• Chop, Drop and Roll

  
  Woodworking Magazine — Authority: 512
  Making a workbench that is both massive and mobile is no small feat. Most of the approachesI have seen have one of the following complications: 1. The mobile base is outboard of the legs. You trip on them. You need new front teeth. 2. The mobile base has "locking" wheels that fail to "lock" completely. 3. The mobile ...
  9 hours ago

• Wheres Poindexter When You Need Him?

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 480
  Squirrels hate technology, but they hate Poindexter even more In the midst of a blog post about hating writing and hating technology , I noticed something:   Are all those markups from some weird computer programming language? Is that HTML? I have no idea. The author clearly expresses a disdain for ...
  10 hours ago

• Happy Halloween ! ハロウィンの写真

  
  PUDGY & OOLOO BONZO — Authority: 112
  シカゴのお友達から・・・Anabell, Claire and her friends from Indianaホノルルから・・・From Honolulu, ...
  11 hours ago

• Qatar: Anticipation mounts over England vs Brazil football friendly

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Qatar has been abuzz with events over the past few months: an international film festival , a nail-biting womans tennis championship , and now, the Brazil-England friendly football match on November 14. Barechestedness and public drinking are not things youll see at the friendly in Doha this weekend (Photo by ...
  13 hours ago

• Rape in China: a ‘temporary crime?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  A prominent topic circulating throughout China’s blogosphere is the light sentencing on 29th October of two civilian police assistants charged with the rape of a young girl in Huzhou, in Zheijang province. What netizens have been rampantly discussing is not the crime itself, but the court’s ruling that the ...
  15 hours ago

• The 2009 Weblog Awards

  
  Tacky Raccoons — Authority: 129
  Lookee to the right and there’s a new link where you can go to nominate some great blogs, or click on the logo above to see the other categoricals.  (Thanx to *ahem* Lanny Foosers for nominating Tacky Raccoons .) I sincerely request that y’all help to nominate any and all on our blogroll as well.  –Bunk
  17 hours ago

• Hungary: Comments on the Interview with Imre Kertész

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  The German newspaper Die Welt published an interview ( GER , HUN ) this weekend with Imre Kertész , a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author living in Berlin. Kertész celebrated his 80th birthday on the same day as Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The journalist asked him ...
  19 hours ago

• 2009 Weblog Awards – Nominations now open

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 459
  Nominations are open for the 2009 Weblog Awards . They close 20 November 2009. A direct link to the nominations page is here. I haven’t thought too much about the categories in the Weblog Awards before – I’ve always become aware of them after nominations have closed, so I’ve really only thought about the ...
  20 hours ago

• Ukraine: Flu Stats, Panic, Gauze Masks (and Some Lingerie)

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  GVs H1N1 Outbreak 2009 special coverage page is here . Last weeks coverage of the flu epidemics in Ukraine: Oct. 31 ; Nov. 1 ; Nov. 2 ; Nov. 3 ; Nov. 4 ; Nov. 6 ; Nov. 7 . According to Ukraines Health Ministry (UKR), 1,031,597 people in Ukraine have fallen ill with “flu, acute respiratory illness and ...
  20 hours ago

• Video: The world commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Berlin Wall by Natalie Maynor Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , a complex security structure that once divided East and West Berlin in Germany. Today we are showcasing some of the videos from throughout the globe that are being uploaded to commemorate this date and what it meant to ...
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• Weekly Live Jazz - The Rapture @ Rama V, KL

  
  Memoirs of a Chocoholic — Authority: 119
  Photo heavy post on the new weekly jazz night at Rama V.... :) If youre looking for a place with good food and good music, theres a new option in town - Rama V has just started a weekly jazz session on Fridays*** (10pm onwards) featuring soothing jazz classics sung by a young, up and coming local band called the ...
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• Home – Joop.nl

  
  Weblog of Edward de Leau — Authority: 140
  Home – Joop.nl Joop, kritisch weblog VARA Tags: weblog Related posts WordPress has limited ways of formatting blogpostings (0) wellicht wordt het tijd om 5 jaar B@@ log in te… (0) Jish asked me to say HI! to my webloggers webring… (0) Idea: history blog community (1) Ed’s links for ...
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• Colombia: Preserving Afro-Colombian Culture in San Basilio de Palenque

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  The village of San Basilio de Palenque , a small village in northern Colombia, was one of the first communities of escaped African slaves during the Spanish Colonization. The descendants of these African slaves are now working on preserving their cultural heritage, as well as the Palenquero language , a ...
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• Russia: Bloggers Discuss 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Berlin Wall in front of Brandenburg Gate - 1989, by romtomtom on flickr Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall not so numerous Russian bloggers remember, celebrate and discuss the historical event that some call “the most important event in the history of the 20th century.” For most of the Russian ...
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• IBM ThinkCentre 8194A4U NIC problem

  
  PsychoPhil — Authority: 91
  We had an interesting incident last Friday when, early in the morning, three remote systems at two different locations stopped reporting in. All three system stopped checking in around 3am. Further checking revealed that all three systems where identical. IBM ThinkCentre 8194A4U boxes. Later that morning a tech ...
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• Screw you Ubuntu

  
  PsychoPhil — Authority: 91
  Yet another Ubuntu release, yet another set of Linux boxes in my house which no longer have sound. Kind of a pain since these are the systems my kids use for homework projects and online games. I’m too old and too computer weary to go chasing after the same damn computer problem with every ‘new’ release. It ...
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• Vote For Me (BUMPED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 427
  Best Blog – Best Liberal Blog – Best Political Blog – Best Small BlogWe’ve had a fantastic response from everyone so far–keep up the good work and make sure to go vote!Democrashield has been nominated for the 2009 Weblog Awards. Please take a moment to second our nominations by clicking on the links above, ...
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