11/14/06- Today I spent researching the topic of blogging and the types of therein.

This includes finding the history of blogging and its origins

11/15/06- Today I added this:

Blogs is an abbreveation of "weblogs", which means web sites that contain entries in reverse chronological order about a particular topic. Blogs can be written by one person or a group of people. The term "weblog" was patented by Jorn Barger in December of 1997. The shorter version "blog" was coined by Peter Merholz in 1999.

Blogs come in many forms such as an online newsletter, audio blogging, and video blogging. After a slow start blogging caught on in the summer of 1996, when the site Xanga was launched. By 1997 it only had 100 diaries by 1997, but by December 2005 it had over 50,000,000. Blogs never have just one author, they can be replied by anyone at anytime, with any opinion accepted.

For the last several years any other forms of blogging have become popular:

11/17/06-

PodcastingPopularized around 2004, this links radio casting to a blogging circle. i.e. "Internet Talk Radio" which also links MP3 files to blogs.

Blogging however, was as much about technology as politics, and the proliferation of tools to run blogs and the communities around them connected blogging with the Open Source movement. Writers such as Larry Lessig and David Weinberger used their blogs to promote not just blogging in specific, but different social models in general. One of the running discussions within journalism and blogging is what "blogging" means for the way news "happens" and is covered. This leads to questions over intellectual property and the role of the mass media in society. Many bloggers differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel.

 I looked up this history from a web page intitled "The History of Blogging"

11/19/06- This finished up my brief history

Blogging however, was as much about technology as politics, and the proliferation of tools to run blogs and the communities around them connected blogging with the Open Source movement. Writers such as Larry Lessig and David Weinberger used their blogs to promote not just blogging in specific, but different social models in general. One of the running discussions within journalism and blogging is what "blogging" means for the way news "happens" and is covered. This leads to questions over intellectual property and the role of the mass media in society. Many bloggers differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel.

Many bloggers have large agendas, and see blogging as part of Open Source Politics, or the ability of people to participate more directly in politics, helping to frame the debate. Whereas institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing message directly to the public.

Video Blogging: Since the introduction of the video blog the web has been flooded with sites dedicated to this art form.

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