Blogs and Vlogs

1. Web 2.0 Workshops
Blogs and Vlogs

2. Web 2.0
Social Software
Standardization
Participation
Design
Usability
Aggregators
Video/Audio
Convergence
Wikis
Videocasting/Podcasting
User Centred
Blogs
Folksonomy
Collaboration
Sharing

4. What is Web 2.0?
Platform for applications
Example of glocalization
Separation of metadata from
interface
Sharing of knowledge and
building collaboration

6. 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

7. Blogs
Website
Updated regularly
Content displayed in reverse chronological
order
Textual, graphic, audio, visual
Active
Boingboing

8. Blogging Software
Hosted
Wordpress.com
Blogger
Live Journal
Installed
Wordpress.org
Moveable Type
Nucleus CMS

9. 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

10. Why Blog?

11. 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

12. Brotherhood 2.0 – January 3, 2007

13. 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

14. 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