Friday 14 March 2008

Forum - Semester 3 - Week 2

A big part of this session was spent on discussing the issues and problems with blogging; Not just the problems faced by students, but also concepts and controversies of blogging in general.
Some terms in the world of blogging were introduced to us, such as:
- Blogademia: term refering to the academic study of weblogs. Coined in 2003 as the title of a blog concerning a study of the language used in blogs.
- Blogalisation:The Internet trend from the beginning of the 21st century of making a blog out of everything. You have sport blogs, car blogs, news blogs, love blogs, photo blogs, etc.
- Blog fodder: An interesting idea, story, or link. Referred to as blog fodder when your first reaction is to use it in your blog.
- Blogarrhea: A condition where a person posts rambling, long, or frequent entries in their blog.
- Blog hawk: One who constantly checks or refreshes their own blog to see how many hits they've gotten.
- Blogamy: the custom or condition of having a marital relationship strictly confined to the blogosphere. People in a blogamous relationship may or may not be married to others in real life.
- Blogerati: The blogosphere intelligentsia.
- Blogblivion: When a blog is neglected by its creator.

Nice, huh?

image taken from Freelance Switch: (http://freelanceswitch.com/images/freelancers_blog.jpg)

References:
- Urban Dictionary: (www.urbandictionary.com) [Accessed 14/3/8]



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