This document provides an overview of blogs, including: 1. It defines a blog as a reverse-chronological collection of diary-like entries that can function as a personal publication tool or form of journalism. 2. It describes the history of blogs, from personal homepages to the modern blog, which is database-driven and focuses on freshness and links rather than static pages requiring HTML knowledge. 3. It discusses blog software, hosting options, customizing software to one's goals, and best practices for adding content, images, videos, and attributions.

1. Cursus webloggen @ASVA
Anne Helmond, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 27 oktober 2009
Foto: laughingsquid

2. wie ben ik?

3. waarom bloggen?

4. wat is een blog?
boyd, danah. “A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium.” Reconstruction, 6 (4), November 2006. http://www.danah.org/papers/ABloggersBlog.pdf
Walker, Jill Blogging From Inside the Ivory Tower. Peter Lang. 2006. 127-138. https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/1956/1846/1/Walker-Uses-of-Blogs.pdf

5. new form of journalism
reverse-chronological ordered collection of entries
product of blog software diary
personal publication tool

6. geschiedenis van de blog

7. the personal homepage
• Fairly static and closed self-referential environment
• Content stored in one place
• Based on the unit of the page
• Required HTML knowledge

8. the blog
• The blog is a database
• The blog is not a closed environment
• Based on the unit of the post
• Focus on freshness and links
• Does not require HTML knowlegde (unless...)

9. anatomie van een blog
Hourihan, Meg. "What We're Doing When We Blog." O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2002, www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html

13. wat is de blogosphere?
The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their
interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together
as a connected community (or as a collection of connected
communities) or as a social network in which everyday
authors can publish their opinions. (Wikipedia)

14. interconnections:
the conversational qualities of blogging (boyd, 2006)
software-engine relations (Helmond, 2007)

15. blogosphere I
This a hyperbolic display of blogs using both the WWE and the ICWSM 2007 data sets.
© Matthew Hurst

16. blogosphere II

17. engines als het startpunt van
de blogosphere
Blogoscoped

18. de blogosphere volgens
de engines
indexing machines

19. de engines creëren
verschillende blogospheren

22. blog software

23. blog software
zelf hosten elders hosten

24. micro-blog software

26. stem je software af op je doel

27. content toevoegen
blogs zijn meer dan tekst: foto’s, video, slideshows etc.
1. plugins
2. widgets
3. embed codes

28. hoe niet
bron: GeenStijl

29. bron: Engelfriet

30. hoe wel
Creative Commons

31. hoe wel
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en

32. hoe wel

33. categoriseren en taggen