Blogging the World

A discussion about blogging generally starts in the wild early days of the World Wide Web of the early 90s. The history of blogs starts with easily updated "Whats new?" lists of new and interesting websites hence the term weblogs. The genre then diversifies? fragments? into forms such as the online journal, the citizen journalist, the bridge blog which comments on postings from several other blogs, teaching blogs and research blogs. At UCT we have examples of research units like SALDRU which use their blogs to inform and grow a community of interest. Perhaps of most interest to us here today is the phenomenon of the blogging librarian.

What all these blogs have in common is separation of content from appearance, easy updating, listing of postings from most to least recent and a collection of recommended links (often to other blogs).

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