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What are weblogs?

2004; UKSG; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1629/1783

1475-3308

Phil Bradley,

Web and Library Services

A weblog is a web site or page that is the product of (generally) an individual or non-commercial origin that uses a date-limited or diary format, and which is updated either daily or at least regularly with new information about a subject, range of subjects, or personal details.This information may have been written by the author of the log, obtained from other sources on the Web, contributed by others, or a combination of those.They are consequently usually topical and timely, and can be viewed as a developing commentary on a situation, event or subject.Weblogs are also referred to as logs, Blogs, Web logs and so on.There appears to be no single standard way of referring to them.There is a variety of different types of weblog, all doing different things.One of the single most popular weblogs is Slashdot at http://www.slashdot.orgwhich is the work of programmer and graphic artist Rob Malden and some of his colleagues.Slashdot is an extended weblog, in that it carries discussion threads that are contributed to by various individuals, and on many subject areas, such as games, hardware, programming and so on.To this extent, it may appear to be more akin to a portal, rather than a diary.At the other end of the spectrum is the Weblog of Jenny Levine, the 'shifted librarian' at http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com which is the personal weblog of an information