TASK 3: Compare the following blogs and decide what a blog is and what its key characteristics are:

1. Go to the "What is a Blogging" page and see how others have defined the concept of blog. Have your group create your own definition for "blog".
2. What are the essential elements which make up a blog? What characteristics make a blog a blog? List at least five KEY characteristics which make a blog unique from other websites.
3. Use the Key Characteristics of Blogs worksheet to record your answers.


What is Blogging?
 
 

CyberJournalist.net

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/
Free Range Librarian
http://freerangelibrarian.com/
Instapundit
http://www.instapundit.com/
kottke.org
http://www.kottke.org/
Librarian.net
http://www.librarian.net/
Maud Newton
http://www.maudnewton.com/blog/
ResearchBuzz
http://www.researchbuzz.com/
Talking Points Memo
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
 
 

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