About Blogs

Well, the one and only blog post that was promised is finally here. This is one is specially dedicated to blogs and all the information that is involved like privacy, copyright, censorship.

I would like to point out that a blog is the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented. It is a bit of technology that has enabled people to have a voice that they did not have. It also allows you to put a diversity of information.

Blogging led to the introduction of disintermediation. This is where the intermediaries are taken out of the process . An extra explanation to this is; through the Internet, the blogs work, and Internet enables the famous people, even some politicians to get down to the level of the ordinary people and have conversations with them though chat programs like Facebook, Twitter, etc. a unique relationship can be built through this amazing facility.

A question is passed whether blogging is journalism or writing?! Well, an answer to that is the journalists do try to take advantage of this amazing establishment. As you can see there is a sort of network that is built through blogging as people try to air out their views. Through blogging, th journalists end up becoming more or less freelance, as the newspaper industries are dying out and the internet has replaced all of it, together with the services they provide.

I should point out that people tend to monetise their skills by blogging.

Blogs are mainly composed of texts, images, music, video, and all these can be inserted by the blogger.

Blogs create a blogsphere. A blogshere can be defined as a collection of blogs with honest opinions. These days, things tend to appear on the blogshere before they appear on the news. It is the non-edited version of information that is generally given to the public, as it covers the traditional version that the media cannot access.

www.technorati.com is a website that searches the blogshere. So this is for those that would love to get the news as honestly as can be and not the one that the media decides is most suitable for the audience/country men. I would like to think that this is not right, because the truth about situations ought to be known, especially when it comes to the welfare of a country and its people.

Some other things that would be interesting to know about this interesting topic, is the RSS- Really Simple Syndication. Syndication means the ability to have access to things or information. This however is a disadvantage to the bloggers as it reduces their chances to monetise.

Now here are some of the blog platforms that yu might be interested in when you try to start a blog of your own. – wordpress, - typepad, - blogger, - tumblr.

Some vital information

Privacy

First of all, one should know that writing itself is a way to expose oneself. However, when blogging, do not forget to consider the following:

· Where do you exist?

· Who owns the data?

· Can you get your data?

· Can you delete the data?

Copyright

· People have the right to own what they produce

· Every copy is perfect

· Whats intellectual property?

· Patents, trademarks, designs, copyright…

Trademarks assert the rights to use something in a particular way and also to stand out as a writer/blogger(in this case)

Censorship

· Limit people from seeing some of the information.

www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC90102

So I would like to conclude this by saying, is blogging the best way or the only way for an honest opinion of life's happenings to be known to the world at large?

*over and out*