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Content

What is a weblog?

History

What does a blogger do?

Types of blogs Who let the blogs out?

Research theory

Blogs analyzed Unbrave Girl, Modern Nomad, Americana the Beautiful Lazy Travellers

Conclusion

References


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What is a weblog?

Online website which consists of posts

Reverse chronological order

Special publishing software

Comments Add links, photos, videos

Mainstream


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History

Online Diaries

Justin Hall - 11 years of posting

December 1997 first time used term web log

(John Barger Robot Wisdom WebLog) not only personal blogs, later news blogs Jonathan Dube, Hurricane Bonnie

Later blogging platforms huge spread

Nowadays more than 100 million blogs


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What does a blogger do?

After creating a blog

Chronology

Frequency

Focusing on a specific topic

Sharing on social networks

Referencing to older posts

Expect the reader to know Blog society


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Types of blogs

Basic types

Personal blog (authors thoughts)

Filter blog (author is an expert in specific field)

Thematic blogs Mommy blogs very popular

Pet blogs

Microblogging (140-character limit)

Facebook Twitter

YouTube


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Who let the blogs out?

Evan Williams, Pyra Labs

Blogger (1999)

Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little

WordPress (2003) Arianna Huffington HuffingtonPost (2005)

David Karp Tumblr (2007)


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Research theory

A blogger tends to use a bank of informationcreated by himself in his previous posts which hemay refer to, assuming readers familiarity with theinformation references to his older posts may notonly serve to avoid redundancy and build naturalcontinuity between them but also to create a certainfeeling of community or buddying among those in

the know, i.e. the author and the regular followers ofhis blog.


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Unbrave Girl

MITTEN LIST: FRANKENMUTH

Itwill be a surprise to noone that I love cheese.

Remember when I decided to kick off the Go SoloProject by going to a male strip show by myself and

you all thought I was crazy and many of you sent meconcerned emails beginning with the words, Umm,

ARE YOU CRAZY?


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Lazy Travellers

If youll recall, our very last week of our five monthRTW was off to a stellar start, thanks to two veryfulfilling days of rotten shark-eating and blackdeath-imbibing in Reykjavik.

extensive use of linking in order to facilitate

understanding
http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/hallo-reykjavik-our-intro-to-iceland/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/http://thelazytravelers.com/rtw-rookies-142-days-of-travel/


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Other Blogs

Modern Nomad

Most pride festivals are big fun flamboyant parties and anopportunity to show off our subculture in the prime real estateof the cities and societies we love.

Americana the Beautiful no occurrence of the explored phenomenon

it is a travel journal nonetheless


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Conclusion

Rather than being an essential characteristic of ajournal-type travelogue, references to an informationbank created by a blogger over time in his/herprevious writings seem to have more to do withauthorial preferences than stylistic characteristics ofthe genre and may therefore be used fairlyextensively and frequently or, conversely, be almost

or completely absent without necessarily taking awayfrom theblogsjournal-like character .


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References

Cross, Mary.Bloggerati, Twitterati: how blogs andTwitter are transforming popular culture.California: Praeger, 2011. PDF file.

Yus, Francisco. Weblogs: Web pages in search of agenre?

http://www.unbravegirl.com/

http://www.themodernnomad.com/

http://americanathebeautiful.org/

http://thelazytravelers.com/
http://www.unbravegirl.com/http://www.themodernnomad.com/http://americanathebeautiful.org/http://thelazytravelers.com/http://thelazytravelers.com/http://americanathebeautiful.org/http://www.themodernnomad.com/http://www.unbravegirl.com/


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