At 12:00 +1000 6/6/02, empyre-request@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote:
can you send a quick intro to what exactly a blog is? - haven't come across
them before. Sounds interesting and as I'm strapped for time in terms of
going off and researching would welcome a quick overview so I can follow the
discussion.
as brandon says they're more or less an online journal. for me they
are historically associated with graphic designers (and the blog A
list is largely a design community - is that right jill?) who keep
those nifty note books full of snippets - sketches, ideas, quotidian
dodads. that's how you use a blog. it's whre you
keep/put/do/sketch/note your web quotidian dodads. and by that i
don't mean you translate to the web your notepad but you use your
blog to annotate and write with and around your day to day use of the
network. a site you wnat to hang onto, then rather than bookmark it
you blog it, if only to mention it in passing as somewhere to return
to.
so they're informal, composed usually of small (usually) text bites,
are arranged temporally (most recent first), and tend to contain
links to elsewhere.
i use them quite a bit now with students as they also seem to
encourage a process orientated approach to writing which is very
successful.