blogs and vlogs
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Web 2.0 WorkshopsBlogs and Vlogs
Web 2.0
Social Software
Standardization
Participation
Design
Usability
AggregatorsVideo/Audio
Convergence
Wikis
Videocasting/Podcasting
User Centred
Blogs
Folksonomy
Collaboration
Sharing
What is Web 2.0?
Platform for applications
Example of glocalization
Separation of metadata from interface
Sharing of knowledge and building collaboration
Web 2.0 Workshops
What are they? Three sessions – 1.5 hours Instruction, discussion, hands-on http://yorkelearn.wordpress.com/
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back
Blogs Website Updated regularly Content displayed in reverse chronological
order Textual, graphic, audio, visual Active Boingboing
Blogging Software
Hosted Wordpress.com Blogger Live JournalInstalled Wordpress.org Moveable Type Nucleus CMS
Blog Search Engines In 2006 there were 50 million blogs Retrieve blogs from the “blogosphere”
- all blogs and their communities Keyword searching Blog Search Engine Google Blog Search Technorati
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003674.php
Why Blog?
Vlog “Video blog” Video entries instead of traditional text Example
- Brotherhood 2.0- John and Hank Green- “social experiment”- January 1 to December 31, 2007
Brotherhood 2.0 – January 3, 2007
Vlogs: Is someone watching?
Brotherhood 2.0- 40,000 viewers daily- “Accio Deathly Hallows” viewed nearly 900,000 times- The Foundation to Decrease WorldSuck
zefrank- online performance artist, composer- 2001, online birthday party invitation- 100 gigabytes of daily traffic- Webby Award, featured in Time Magazine
Activity Create your own blog Use whichever hosted software appeals to
you (Wordpress.com) Posts
- Biographical information and outcomes- Opinions/Ideas about web 2.0