What is Blog?

In our current technology era, blog trend has been increasing rapidly. The article entitles, ‘What Is The Definition Of A Blog’, written by Michael Arrington, and this article is describing what actually blog is all about. According to Pew Internet & American Life reports, in every 5.8 seconds, a new weblog is created, and it is approximately 15,000 new blogs created daily. The blog’s author are able to use own creativity on designing their own blogs, no matter how the design is, every blog has the same characteristic which is framing in order to divide the columns for the post, the author profile, links and other features (Kress and van Leeuwen). There are many definitions for the ‘blog’ term due to its frequently changing characteristics and there have overloaded with different points of view from the people.

example of blog

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Blog allow bloggers to post photos, videos, audios, hyperlinks and linking with other useful websites or blogs. According to Walsh (2006), the website should be designed based on the audience perspective, contexts and contents should made as precedence as fine document design for purpose to connect and encourage readers to be involved with the organization itself. In a website, hyperlinks are important because it is enable readers to choose their own reading pathway by clicking on the hyperlinks that provided (Walsh 2006). According to Schriver (1997), hyperlinks are good and convenient for readers because hyperlinks allow readers to choose their own way to serves their own interest and needs. Blogs is something more on interactive, what information written hope to get feedback or comments because it is interactive program but not only information. According to Jeff Jarvis (in Conniff 2005), argues that blog is more about conversation than content. Comment enables readers to leave their opinion towards certain discussion issues. Receive comment can make improvement and betterment. A blog that have no single comment is not credible (Arrington 2006). Comment can also be interesting because it written by readers thus can view other people opinion toward a certain issues and it is interactive as well.

In my opinion, I think blog is an electronic diary and an interactive tool in communication which can share your personal experience, discussion toward a certain issues and many purposes.

References


Arrington, M 2006, What Is The Definition Of A Blog?, viewed on 10 June 2008,http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/31/what-is-the-definition-of-a-blog/



Coniff, M 2005, Just what is a blog, anyway?, viewed on 10 June 2008,http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050929/



Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub., New York, p.378.



Walsh, M 2006, ‘textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian journal of language and literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.

Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, Reading images: The grammar of visual design, 2nd edn, Routledge, London.