How can I share my joy of discovering blogging when I am surrounded by a family of non-technical "normal" people? My daughter (the favorite one according to her) writes to say, "I have no clue what blogging is. Fill me in." Here goes.
The word "BLOG" comes from Web Log (or Weblog). WordWeb Online at http://www.wordwebonline.com/ defines it as:
Noun: blog
A shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies
"postings on a blog are usually in chronological order"
- web log
Verb: blog (blogged,blogging)
Read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
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I am playing around with two different types of online blogging applications - http://blogger.com and http://bloglines.com
http://blogger.com allows me to publish my blogs to my Web sites and http://bloglines.com allows me to publish my blog, syndicate other blogs to receive notification when a new blog is posted, and read the underlying XML documents through their aggregator/reader. The technology uses programs/services that speak the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or the Atom standards for XML (eXtensible Markup Language). These programs/services include: a publisher, a syndicator, and an aggregator/reader. The more powerful of these programs "speak" more than one of the standards. http://bloglines.com "speaks" all three standards.
See http://www.bloglines.com/blog/kepha for yet another blog that I'm playing around with.
I'm interested in this technology because I work on the DoD Metadata Registry and Clearinghouse at http://metadata.dod.mil which also includes an XML Gallery and a Taxonomy Gallery for developers to register their XML and Taxonomy Information Resources. What's a Taxonomy? That's a topic for another blog.....
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