Homework 1

What is a blog?

A blog is a website that is typically maintained by one person. This website is usually updated often with written commentaries on life events, news, or products. In my opinion, a blog could be generalized as a online journal. This journal could be used as a personal or business endeavor to update anyone on the web about new events. A user can add photos, videos, and virtually any other type of media to their blog.

 Five Free Blog Hosts:

greatestjournal.com

LiveJournal.com

blog.com

blogetery.com

weebly.com

Twitter

Twitter is a online micro-blogger. This service is utilized by many to provide short updates to a blog type service. Twitter entries are known as tweets. Tweets are limited to only have 140 characters in each entry.

Myspace

Myspace is an online social networking site. This site allows people to connect with each other through the internet. The service can be used like a blog, but is most often a form of communication between friends and family.

Facebook

Facebook is another social network site. It was originally developed to be a networking site for college students only, but has now been opened up into a public domain. Facebook allows for a more solid blog than myspace, and also allows much more connection between friends and family. With facebook you can add photo albums and videos. It even allows for different community games to be played. Facebook can be linked with Twitter and other services to form a network of blog type updates.

Typepad

Typepad is a blogging service. This service is utilized by many large corporations such as TV networks. Typepad has three different paid subscription levels. This service also has features such as multiple authors and photo albums.

Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing system. It is currently owned by Google. Blogger allows for drag and drop templates as well as the ability to create private blogs. Meaning you can limit who reads your blog.

LinkedIn

This is a business oriented social networking site. The site forms a list of people in business that you trust. From this list a contact list is made that can be used to find jobs or new business contacts. You can also research a business through this service.

Wordpress

This is yet another blogging site. This site is an open source blog publishing application. It claims to have a user friendly workflow, plug-ins, and a template system. Part of the template system is the ability to add widgets.