ICT - F5 : Extra Notes 2

INTERNET SERVICES :
BLOGGING

A blog (web log or weblog) is one of the popular activities on the Internet. Most of these blogs are publicly shared and the authors frequently update the content on a regular basis.
A blog is usually referred to the text produced by the author about his or her thoughts, experiences or interests.
A blog is usually referred to the text produced by the author about his or her thoughts, experiences or interests.
The world of blogging is referred as blogosphere. Another new term is the blogonomics, which refers to people using the blogosphere to generate money.
The posts to a blog are usually arranged in this order, the most recent entries will always be on top of the journal.

To write a good blog, you need to remember these principles:

use a consistent writing style and appropriate tone for your subject
post often, though your posts are short
allow your readers to eave you comments on your posts

If you would like to search some blogs, you can visit blogarama.com

(www.blogarama.com), which categorises blogs into directories. Following are several top blogging resources you should check out:

Blogger (www.blogger.com) - owned by Google, one of the free and easiest to maintain blogging tool.
TypePad (www.typepad.com) - the blog tool that provides more functionality for a minimal fee.
Movable Type (www.movabletype.org) - if you have your own domain site and want to put several blogs together, this is the best choice
Wordpress (wordpress.org) - an open source blogging tool that needs a bit of coding to make your blogs more interesting

WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

The World Wide Web or the Web consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents.

Each electronic document on the Web is called a web page which can contain text, graphics, audio and video.

These pages are written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Every website has an address or Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL is formed by the protocol, domain, directory and the document name.

EMAIL

An electronic mail or email is the transmission of messages and files via a computer network.

A user utilises an email program to create, send, receive, forward, store, print and delete email messages.

Some emails are called web-based email like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

THE INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC)
The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system for chatting that involves a set of rules and conventions, and client/server software.
A chat is a real-time typed conversation that takes place on a computer. A chat room is a location on an Internet server that permits users to chat with each other.
Anyone in the chat room can participate in the conversation, which usually is specific to a particular topic.

SEARCH ENGINES
Search engines are special websites on the Internet to help you find information you need. Different search engines will serve different purposes, for example:

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) is for searching authoritative and scholarly sites.
Google (http://www.google.com/) is for searching valuable or relevant sites with rankings.
Yahoo News (http://dailynews.yahoo.com) is for searching opinions on current issues.
Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) it is an open source for encyclopedia