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Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks), and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" were occasionally used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues.
While the term "blog" was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before "blogging" became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists [1] [2] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).
The Weblog Awards, nicknamed the Bloggies, was an annual non-profit blog awards that began in 2001. [1] Until its end in 2015, it was the longest running and one of the largest blog awards, with winners determined through internet voting by the public.
Textpattern is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for PHP and MySQL. [2] It was originally developed by Dean Allen and now developed by Team Textpattern. . While it is typically listed among weblogging tools, its aim is to be a general-purpose content management s
Printed text has clearly delineated boundaries that can be used to identify context units (e.g., a newspaper article). The bounds of online content to be used in a sample are less easily defined. Early online content analysts often specified a ‘Web site’ as a context unit, without a clear definition of what they meant. [2]
Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology.
Following a crackdown on Iranian media beginning in 2000, many Iranians turned to weblogging to provide and find political news. [1] The first Persian language blog is thought to have been created by Hossein Derakhshan, (in Canada), in 2001. Derakhshan also provided readers with a simple instruction manual in Persian on how to start a blog. [2]
Open discourse as living document may also be understood as the open-endedness in both a communication event and the inability to collapse a communication event into definitives, the unequivocal import of a cultural artifact and the associated inability to resolve ambiguity due to noise and ever-changing context and audience, as Graham (2000: p.