Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics (Jan 2009)

Elearning Technologies

  • Maria Cristina ENACHE

Journal volume & issue
no. 1
pp. 49 – 58

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When blogging tools first arrived in 1998, people asked “What’s ablog?” The word “blog” is a contraction of “Web log” and is used both as anoun as well as a verb. To blog is to write content to a blog. By design, blogsare best suited for the spontaneous thoughts and observations of an individual orteam. They are not designed to facilitate rapid-fire back-and-forth discussion ona particular issue. Blogging tools are available as free or moderately pricedservices and as products you purchase and install on your own server. You mayhave noticed recently that many of websites now contain little graphical buttonswith the word XML on them. For example: or or. When you click on the button, all you see is some jumbledtext and computer code [ed: unless you have a newer web browser or anaggregator]. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and it's changing the waypeople access the Internet

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