Blogging/Welcome
Welcome to the Blogging 101 Wikibook. This book (which anybody can edit) is a collection of resources about blogs and blogging. It is divided into several categories. Please add whatever links you think would be useful to people under the appropriate headings. (Off-topic & inappropriate material will of course be edited out.)
Definitions
edit"A weblog, or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. Such a Web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user. Part of the reason "blog" was coined and commonly accepted into use is the fact that in saying "blog," confusion with server log is avoided.
Blogs run from individual diaries to arms of political campaigns, media programs and corporations, and from one occasional author to having large communities of writers. The totality of weblogs or blog-related webs is usually called the blogosphere.
The format of weblogs can vary from simple bullet lists of hyperlinks to article summaries with user-provided comments and ratings. Individual weblog entries are almost always date and time-stamped, with the newest post at the top of the page. Because links are so important to weblogs, most blogs have a way of archiving older entries and generating a static address for individual entries; this static link is referred to as a permalink. The latest headlines, with hyperlinks and summaries, are offered in weblogs in the RSS XML-format, to be read with a RSS feedreader.
A weblog is often run through a Content management system or CMS."
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Blogging Tools & Where to Find Them:
editHosted on Somebody Else's Server:
editCommunity-Oriented Blogging Tools:
editMobile Community-Oriented Blogging Tools:
editFor Installation on Your Own Server:
edit- movabletype: Movable Type
Open-Source Blogging Tools:
editBlog-Like Tools That Aren't Really Used For Blogging (But Have Some Blog-Like Features):
editAggregators and Newsreaders
editAn aggregator enables you to skim lots of blogs by pulling together summaries of the new entries.
The summaries are actually RSS feeds. An RSS feed is a little file your blogging software probably creates automatically that contains either the first few lines of a blog entry or the entire thing, depending on how you've set it up. An aggregator goes to the blogs you tell it to and lists all the new entries. It does this by reading the RSS feed.
Links to Newsreader Tools:
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