A blog is an online, chronological collection of personal commentary and links, this essay is going to talk about how often we use blog in the past, present or even in the future. And also discuss among its advantages or limitations by using blogs, engaged with hypertext and its accessibility. The essay would demonstrate Instagram as example of blogs, and focus on its popularity and attributions, to apply with the technical skills and link up with the ideas to other significant concepts.
Blog is easy to create and use from anywhere with an Internet connection, blogs are a form of Internet publishing that has become an established communications tool. A blog can be thought of as an online journal, and maintaining a blog is as simple as using an online e-mail program. Bloggers enter posts into a blogging application, add formatting or hyperlinks, and save the post. The application adds the entry to the blog, making the content available online and alerting users who have subscribed to that blog’s content. Entries can include text, hyperlinks, images, or multimedia. Visitors can read postings, submit comments, find blog entries by date, and search the site by keyword.
First of all, the essay would exclaim about its blogs’ advantages regarding on its connection based on the diversity and simplicity, hence to discuss its disadvantages regarding on its
For the advantages, blogs can brings the connection to others, even worldwide. By engaging people in knowledge sharing, reflection, and debate, they often attract a large and dedicated readership.
Access to diversified ideas
Blogs are becoming an important component of the Internet landscape, providing authors and readers with an avenue for unedited expression, reaction, and connection, the user can write anything they would like to say, without the censorship of mediated chat rooms or formal media outlets. Cyberspace embodies the ultimate freedom of speech. Some may be offended, others may love it, but the content of a Webpage is hard to censor. Once posted, it is available to hundreds of millions of people. This unparalleled license of expression, coupled with diminished publishing costs, makes the Web the ultimate forum of democracy; everybody’ s voice can be heard with equal opportunity. Each of us has very different interests, values, beliefs, and tastes. The links we add to our Webpages reflect this diversity, and works with the connection between each other or even worldwide.
Simplicity
The simplicity of creating and maintaining blogs means that open discussions can be established almost immediately, making blogs an ideal venue for far-reaching discussions among the Internet community on new or timely topics. Blogs foster the growth of communities, and the dynamics of collaborative filtering and recommending or referring may provide new ways to evaluate, vet, and critique people thinking.
Secondly, the paradox of creating blogs may dominate by some users who may consist of improper attributions, and they are highly volatile as well, which may lead
Improper attribution
Because blogs are often produced and maintained by individuals, they can include biased or inaccurate information. Users visiting a blog might see it as factual or authoritative when, in fact, it is the online equivalent of a soap box: a place to speak and to be heard. Unlike chat rooms, blogs are unmediated and therefore offer a different type of venue for individuals to express themselves and air their opinions, ideas, and attitudes. While this may be acceptable for a personal blog, it might be inappropriate for a blog hosted on an institutional server. Intellectual property is another area of concern for higher education, given the implications of hosting blogs that might include content that has been used without proper attribution, which may arise the pornographic, violence or even crime.
Highly volatile
Bloggers can edit or delete posts, and this transient nature can make blogs difficult to archive or index. For instance, users can delete those comments that are against them, or even block those users who challenged their statement. In addition, the time-limited relationship of students to institutions influences the length of time a student blog should be hosted, yet removing posts from the blogosphere once a student has graduated could confound those who linked to the post.
As the popularity of the photo-sharing app Instagram continues to grow, so does its user base. Instagram is one of the form of “online blogs” in network media, users can post their photos with captions in differentiate filters, recording videos or scenes with voices, fully reveal the usage of hypertext and hypermedia. They take the form of a set of networked documents, links a wide range of supporting evidence, readers can choose the area to investigate in greater depth, and the auxiliary materials thereby become paratexts. By demonstrating the interactive videos, graphics, sound and music, clarify and simple everyone daily lifes. Paul D. Kahn’s research on the intermedia web identified that Instagram reached the most simplest level of hypertext, by placing a text without links into an HTML template that included navigation links, which means the users can show their pictures by apps on mobile or other devices, or by browsing the websites on desktop. Furthermore, its permit followers to “like” comment on the posts, and allow followers to tag another users to view the post which promote the connection by hypertext and graphics. However, it may be misleading by the text structure as no mark up or even spaces between words are not in formal structure. Unlike the traditional blogging, the writing styles have more characteristics, such as the styles of type, point size, type fonts and colours of the link to organize and give visual meaning to the page, created the forms of texts or thoughts into hypertexts.
All in all, blogs are the collective memory which preserving and passing on human experience, which totally enhance the human capacity for social connection. It becomes more popular and we all believe majority of people in this century are approaching different kinds of blogs, besides the social connections, they can posting their feeling, thoughts or even researches via hypertext, spread the message worldwide, hence to raise the public awareness. Even though it may have some pitfalls such as highly volatile or improper attributions, it still shows an equal human opportunity to speak up anything they wish, and lead the human life approach convenience and simplicity.