Blogs in the New Information and Communication Technologies

INTRODUCTION

With the advancement of Information and Communication Technology, there has been many innovation in the field of technology and there has been increasing interest in new generation for Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the advancement over Web1.0, which is a concept of interactive, collaborative, participative multimedia based technology where everyone can participate. There are various applications of Web 2.0 like, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, Wiki, Blog and many more and for this generation Blog is one Of most innovative tool and it is receiving a great deal of attention in the internet and popular media.

A Blog is a Website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reserve chronological order. A Blog is set out as a online diary and a space for writing, where anyone can read and commenting on whatever they read and updated daily. Here Authors can publish their articles. A Typical Weblog is combination of Text, Images and links to other blogs, web pages and other media related to its topic. The weblog can taken the form of a diary, new services, a collection of links to other resources, book reviews, reports of activity on project, photographic images of the events and audio & videos and in many form or format of documents like, MS-Word, Excel, Power-point or portable document file (PDF). Blog entries incorporate title, date and time of publication, assigned category headings, keywords, hyperlinks to other web resources and name of contributor of the post.

A blog is a Web page to which the author sends messages called ‘‘posts’’. The posts are usually listed in chronological order, with the most recent messages displayed first. Posts are sent to the blog by one or more authors, and reader...

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