★ Saturday, June 30, 2007 ★
☑ Be Honest and Fair
Bloggers should:
• Never plagiarize.
• Identify and link to sources whenever feasible.
• Make certain that Weblog entries, quotations, headlines, photos and all other content do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.
• Never distort the content of photos without disclosing what has been changed. Image enhancement is only acceptable for for technical clarity. Label montages and photo illustrations.
• Never publish inaccurate information, but if publishing questionable information, make it clear that it's in doubt.
• Distinguish between advocacy, commentary and factual information. Even advocacy writing and commentary should not misrepresent fact or context.
• Distinguish factual information and commentary from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.
☑ Minimize Harm
Bloggers should:
• Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by Weblog content. Use special sensitivity when dealing with children and inexperienced sources or subjects.
• Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.
• Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of information is not a license for arrogance.
• Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone's privacy.
• Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.
• Be cautious about identifying juvenile suspects, victims of sex crimes and criminal suspects before the formal filing of charges.
☑ Be Accountable
Bloggers should:
• Admit mistakes and correct them promptly.
• Explain each Weblog's mission and invite dialogue with the public over its content and the bloggers' conduct.
• Disclose conflicts of interest, affiliations, activities and personal agendas.
• Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence content. When exceptions are made, disclose them fully to readers.
• Be wary of sources offering information for favors. When accepting such information, disclose the favors.
• Expose unethical practices of other bloggers.
• Abide by the same high standards to which they hold others.
source: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php
posted @ 10:15 PM
★ Saturday, June 23, 2007 ★
Advantages
☑ Blogs are easy to create:
Blog hosts offer a variety of templates, it literally takes minutes to have a professional looking site up and running.
☑ Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software will automatically move the most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so users do not need to move web pages around.
☑ Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
An example of a blog search engine is Technorati.
☑ Most blog hosts are free:
The most well known of them is Blogger.
From an organizational perspective:
☑ Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs.
☑ Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
☑ Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
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Disadvantages
From an organizational perspective:
☑ Most people may not be able to write down their ideas in a compelling and clear manner.
☑ Very often, the people who have most time to write have least to say, and the people who have most to say don’t have enough time to write it. Thus, the real expertise within the organization lays hidden.
☑ Blogs are easy to start and hard to maintain. Writing coherently is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks for a human being to undertake. As a result, many blogs are not updated, thus damaging rather than enhancing the reputation of the organization.
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source:
-http://www.theinternetdigest.net/archive/blog-advantages.html
-http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm
posted @ 10:00 PM
★ Sunday, June 17, 2007 ★
In the early days of the Internet, each new page was a cause for celebration. The early pioneers watched in excitement as the network grew, and they wanted to keep people informed about this growth. In 1992, Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the first What’s New page; later, another pioneer, Marc Andreesen, put up a similar page. Each had hotlinks to the new pages springing up on the Net.
As the Internet grew and the World Wide Web came about, other programmers created hand-coded pages with their recommendations for surfing the Net – they “filtered” the Net. Justin Hall started his filter log in 1994. In 1998, Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog.”
Soon, says weblogger and author Rebecca Blood, these “link-driven sites” were very popular, and webloggers became a community. Each weblog included a list of similar filter sites.
In 1999, websites Blogger and Pitas began to offer a simpler way to create a weblog. These hosted services allowed any person to sign up easily, create a blog, and write numerous postings. All without having to know HTML.
Since then, millions of weblogs have been created. The term is now pronounced web-log or we-blog, or shorten to blog. And these blogs evolved into personal diaries or journals. Many journal-blogs still do include a list of other similar sites. This is a called a blogroll.
Some of these blog software programs are simple to use while others are more complicated to install. These programs include many powerful publishing tools, and are often called content management systems. The systems allow any individual to be a publisher on a global scale.
source: http://www.unc.edu/~zuiker/blogging101/
posted @ 11:45 PM
"a website that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and recommendations compiled by the user"
source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Weblog
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The followings are some of the hosts that provide free blogging:
- Blogger
- DiaryLand
- LiveJournal
- WordPress
- Xanga
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Different Types of Blogs
(1) Personal Blog
This is the most common type of blog. It is defined as an online diary or journal where one person publishes their activities on a regular basis, usually daily.
(2) Cultural Blog
The main theme revolves around music, arts, theater and popular culture.
(3) Topic Blog
This type of blog is similar to a niche search engine or forum. Writers publish information or articles about a very narrow topic, like breeding cocker spaniel dogs, or tropical fish health tips.
(4) Business Blog
A business blog focuses on subjects such as the stock market, financial markets and other business related topics. Business blogs can also be used to to promote businesses and to discuss topics in a forum type of environment.
Businesses can develop external (outwardly facing) corporate blogs to interact with customers and the public.
Internal (inwardly facing) blogs give employees the opportunity to write about a range of issues, from personal experiences to thoughts and concerns about the company and as such are another form of internal communication, except that like message boards, they possess the potential for anonymity and its resultant problems. Also, firms have used internal blogs to post research information from engineering studies of product failures, something like a lessons learned posting, to help employees avoid similar problems in the future.
(5) Scientific Blog
This kind of blog is used to disseminate information and data. However, scientists only use blogs for basic scientific data and information. This is because they believe that the credibility of their projects may suffer if too much information is widely available.
(6) Collaborative Blog
This type of blog is open for a variety of publishers to gather together and "brainstorm" ideas and concepts with others.
(7) Eclectic Blog
An eclectic blog is a place where information about a few specific topics are gathered together from various sources. Similar in nature to a topic blog, but it may be published by one or more people.
source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Different-Types-Of-Weblog--Blog-/99290
posted @ 9:30 PM