What is a blog? What is a blog?

Blog, from the English weblog, that is, the meaning of the blog. Dr. Xingdong and Mr. Wang the word "blog" and in Taiwan it is called "blogging." Taiwan's translation has the meaning of transliteration, but it also contains some kind of community hint: tribe.

There are a group of people in China who do not recognize the translation of the two sides, saying "iamablogger" or translating them into "blog". Aside from some emotional factors, the translation of the blog is sometimes not easy to use: whether the blog refers to the person who wrote the blog, or the Internet exists on this page organization? Sometimes, oral English will be called the blogger "blogger" (This is the form of the landlord in the BBS, that is, the author of the Post), and the Web page organization is called "blog."

In my discussion, I will write the author (user, blogger) called "blogger", and the Web Form into a "blog", a single article is called "Log." Unified, no other meaning, purely for this series of writing and reading needs.

First give the blog circle a definition. My statement is: A personal collection of selected templates that can be used by a writer to cross technical barriers and track access to the reader.

This definition consists of four parts.

The first part: crossing the technical barrier. I very much agree with the so-called "0 threshold" summary of Fang Wang. Long ago, the internet has a "personal homepage," The organization of the Web page, but this service for users of high requirements, at least to understand some HTML knowledge and FTP knowledge. If it's more complicated, you need to know CSS. But blogs require users only to be able to surf the web and learn how to enter text into their computers.

The so-called tracking access is RSS feed. Blogs make RSS technology a resurgence and a lot of apps. RSS feeds, in turn, make blogging a personal electronic newspaper (or magazine). For a relationship between RSS and blogs, refer to the previous "New Media Apocalypse Nine: RSS"

Blogs can also easily get templates to decorate. For example, WordPress has tens of thousands of different types of templates on the web for bloggers to choose from. Domestic supply template Most BSP should be blogbus: more than 200 pieces. These are still for the junior blogger. If the blogger knows a little about Web page knowledge, you can also customize the template to get a network only this piece of template.

The template definition is very important and directly affects the concept of impression finishing (which I will expand in the latter text).

The last dimension is the repository of personal anthology. The form of the blog is not used for mass release information, but a small amount of information per day, because information is sorted by date. So, contrary to wikis, blogging is an excellent platform for writing, but not a good reading platform.

Usually viewers rarely go through what a blogger wrote in the past, they usually just look at the homepage of the blog in a hurry. Using WordPress's independent bloggers to use a lot of plug-ins (such as support tag plug-ins), as far as possible to the past log can be turned out, but still difficult to the entire blog information network organized.

Therefore, a single blog to become an influential media is very difficult, most blogs on the internet actually does not exist (I did not write the wrong sentence). To effectively use the blog to become a strong media, or is blogosphere road, or is the road of Blogmedia, but in any case, the two only originated in the blog, rather than blog, in a sense, is not a BSP (blog hosting service provider).

China's blog development is very fast, from 2002 thousands of blogs, today has been known as 30 million (Cnnic recently reported that China's 1.5-1.6 billion network population, the middle of the 19.1% use of blog services, which is the origin of 30 million numbers). And the service of the pry and popular, not the United States-style Drudge Report, but very Chinese characteristics of the wooden son of the United States events, behind the reflection of things, a great place to ponder.