MP3 BLOGS

MP3 BLOGS

MP3 blogs: these musical journals include actual music in the form of downloadable MP3 songs. In many cases, the recordings are sent to the blogs by independent musicians hungry for exposure. Fiction blogs: Not many blogs are complete fabrications, but I’ve run across some entertaining examples.
This list doesn’t consider multimedia blog efforts such as podcasts, vlogs (video blogs), audioblogging devoted mostly to photos. Written blogs can be anything from sparse link blogs (many links to outside sources, little commentary) to provocative think blogs (fewer links, tons of opinion), from occasional hobbies to obsessive avocations. If you have something original to say, blogging can possibly be your rare ticket to fame. For most people, it’s a ticket to fun and the satisfaction of self-expression.

Now you know that a Weblog is different from other Web sites because of specialized software running in the background. You know many of the uses of blogs, from online diaries to amateur news sites, from professional diaries to fiction. In this section, I talk about how the software works in the background, and the tools it puts on your screen. I won’t get too technical; the purpose of this section is to describe the mechanics and terminology of basic blogging so every reader understands the layout of a typical blog.

The many blog programs and services sport similar features. At the heart of all blogging, from the ready-to-go platforms requiring no work on your part to the self-installed monsters described here, is content management. The phrase sounds corporate and boring and daunting, but it’s just a concise way of describing how blogging makes updating your site easy.

Content management is the heavy lifting performed by blog software. You write something; the software puts it on the site in the correct place. Entries, posts, indexes, and archives In the context of blogging, content management almost always means organizing the site by backwards chronology. In this way, your most recent writing appears first. As visitors continue reading your updates, they work backwards in time. Each piece of content is called an entry. When you write a blog, you post entries, and those posted entries are sometimes called posts.
(The word post derives from Internet message boards, where online communities chat by means of publicly posted messages.) Each posted entry is stamped with a date and (usually) time. The front page of the blog containsrecent entries, with the most recent at the top. Many blogs are organized with big daily headers that group each day’s posts.

Blog software makes easy business of posting entries. The interface is usually similar to the Compose screen you use for e-mail. You write in that screen,and then click a button marked Post or Post Entry. The software uploads the entry to the blog, putting it above previous entries on the home page, and assigning it a date and time stamp. The software also assigns the entry its own page, so that each entry has a dedicated URL (Web address).
In some instances, bloggers make the software put short entry excerpts on the home page (called the index page), saving the entire entry for the dedicated page. With that arrangement, readers can skim short bits of many entries on the index page, clicking through to a dedicated entry page when they want to read an entire post.

Even in blogs where the entire entry is published on the index page, a dedicated page is created — that unique URL enables bloggers to promote individual blogs.