What is a Blog?

This is a Blog!!  Blogging was introduced to me in 2004 while I was teaching in the Journalism department at Temple University.  The journalism students used blogs for writing journal entries and creating online writing portfolios for potential jobs and internships.  Blogging is an online bulletin board that is an easy way to post text, photos and videos that will be published to the Internet. There is no need to have HTML or FTP knowledge and it is as easy as sending an email (Richardson.)  The user-friendly interface can be accessed from any Internet connection, thereby making blogging a firmly established web based communications tool. The phenomenon of blogging has its early origin as a medium for the publication of simple, online personal diaries, to the latest disruptive technology that has the capacity to engage people in collaborative activity, knowledge sharing, reflection and debate (Hiler, 2003).  Blogs are a form of visual communication that is not only visually aesthetic but function live.  Seconds after posting the entire class can see the computer graphics project and the written reflections, thereby allowing one to contribute to an online interactive critique.

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