TOOLS OF THE TRADE: The Growing World of Blogs and Weblogs

["David P. Dillard" <jwne@ASTRO.OCIS.TEMPLE.EDU>]

The language of blogs and weblogs may be foreign to many internet users
who have not had the opportunity or needed to know about this emerging
resource.  There is so much jargon out there and in so many different
subject fields that one cannot keep up to date on the wide variety of more
recently coined language.  This concept has been around since the end of
the most recent millenium.

Blogs is a shortened slang for weblog or weblogs.

Here are two examples of weblogs.

Gary Price maintains a very important reference and information science
weblog.
<http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/>

Another example is run by the Poynter Organization and is called
the Clergy Abuse Tracker.
<http://www.poynter.org/clergyabuse/2002_09_22_archive.htm>

More to the point and beyond learning by example, here is a web page that
contains a definition of this type of website.

A Defintion of Weblog from Whatis.com
<http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213547,00.html>

A Weblog (which is sometimes written as "web log" or "weblog")
is a Web site of personal or non-commercial origin that uses a dated
log format that is updated on a daily or very frequent basis with new
information about a particular subject or range of subjects.

The complete definition, which is rather extensive may be read at the URL
above.

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An essay describing the early history of weblogs may be found here.

weblogs: a history and perspective
7 september 2000
<http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html>

A concise and compact definition of weblogs may be found here
<http://www.clienthelpdesk.com/dictionary/weblog.html>

I hope that these thoughts and resources will help you with this
concept and resource type and perhaps persuade you in the days ahead to
throw yet another log on the fire.  Indeed in the elementary-secondary
school arena, the creation of weblogs by students is starting to become an
area of interest, concern and policy making.  There already has been a
discussion of student weblogs on a K-12 administrators discussion group.


Sincerely,
David Dillard, Librarian
Temple University Libraries
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu

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