Chinese word "blog" comes from English word Blog/Blogger. Blog is short for weblog. Weblog is actually a combination of network and log. Web refers to the World Wide Web, and of course refers to the Internet; The original meaning of Log is "log book", and later it refers to any type of running water record. On the whole, weblog is a form of running records on the network, which is called weblog for short. Blogger or Weblogger refers to people who are used to daily recording and using weblog tools. Although the translation of this concept was different in earlier Chinese mainland or Taiwan Province Province (some were called "blogs", others were called "blogs" and so on). ), has been basically unified to the word "blog". This word was first put forward by famous online critics Wang Junxiu and Fang Xingdong on August 8th, 2002. Blog or blog is just a name, and its original meaning can't escape the category of Weblog. However, what we usually call "blog" can be used as a noun Blogger or blogger-a kind of person who has blog behavior; It can also be used as a verb (equivalent to WeBlog or Blog in English), which refers to the behavior of a blog that can be intuitively felt by a third party, that is, a blog written by a blogger. So "he/she is a blogger and writes blogs every day" and "Who is a blogger?" It is correct in Chinese grammar and logic. It's just different usage on different occasions.

What exactly is a blog? After a long time, a blog is actually a web page, which is usually composed of short and frequently updated posts, arranged in reverse order according to the year and date. The content and purpose of a blog are very different from those of links and comments on other websites, about companies and individuals. Jiaozi took your palm? ⑹? ⑸ ⑽ mode? What is the measure? Positive and negative P blogs only record what bloggers see, hear and think, and some blogs are created collectively by a group of people based on a specific theme or the same interest. Bloggers These blogs are called bloggers.

There are generally three types of blogs: first, hosting blogs, without registering domain names, renting space or compiling web pages, bloggers can have their own blog space as long as they apply for free registration, which is the most "quick and economical" way. For example, English-speaking www.blogger.com and wordpress.com, Chinese "Blog Chinese Station" (www.blogcn.com) and multilingual blog room (blogates.com) all provide such services; 2. Blogs with self-built independent websites have their own domain name, space and page style, which requires certain conditions. For example, the "Blog China" station established by Fang Xingdong (www. BlogChina.com); The third is affiliated blog, which regards your blog as a part of a website (such as a column, channel or address). These three categories can evolve, or even both. One person owns multiple blog sites.

The difference between a blog and a hacker.

Mr. Fang Xingdong, the founder of the word blog, has a saying about the difference between blog and hacker: ① Blog, like hacker, is also a type of "knowledge worker" (note: the hacker here refers to a productive rather than destructive hacker like a member of the Linux community). The strength of a hacker comes not so much from his own intelligence as a "self-employed knowledge worker" as from an organizational mechanism. And this organizational mechanism-openness, self-organization, self-optimization, is precisely guaranteed by the full enjoyment of knowledge-the opening of source code. In this sense, hackers refer to a brand-new way of knowledge production and dissemination rather than people. Different from hackers, blog refers to a network communication mode from the beginning-the fourth network communication mode after email, BBS and IM (instant messaging), and a media form-self-media (or "personal media"). In other words, literally, a blog refers to a group of people first, then someone, then "we" and then "me"-through a multi-link, "prelude-introduction" blog, "I" becomes "we" and more people are introduced to "us". Knowledge * * * and body "is their * * * and blood. In the world of blogs and hackers, to borrow a poem from Dunn, "No one is an island", everyone is a part of the same earth. A single blog is not a self-sufficient point, but a node on the knowledge network. Relatively speaking, blogs show the essence of "nodes" more clearly than hackers. ② Compared with hackers, the knowledge threshold of blogs is much lower. Anyone can quickly grow into a blog in a few minutes-as long as he is interested. The text of a blog provides a lot of information, but the blogger himself is not necessarily the author (copyright owner), and all he may do is provide some links. In addition, blog readers can also add their own links. Therefore, unlike traditional media, blogs often attract readers' attention to themselves without existing or potential links (which may be added by others). Most importantly, blogs make readers gradually become authors by guiding them to themselves. From consumers to providers of knowledge and information.

3. The background and history of the blog.

Understand the difference between blog and hacker, and understand that the core of blog is actually the reproduction of hypertext language. This idea can even be traced back to Talmud, the code of ancient Jews. This is a kind of code that looks a bit strange. On the surface, it consists of two parts: the text and the notes of later generations, but these two parts have the same legal effect, which are the text and the notes. In addition, annotations are multi-layered, including annotations to annotations, annotations to annotations ... The characteristics of Talmud are: it is an open text rather than a "read-only text"; The original creator (legislator) and the re-creator (legal interpreter) are only in order, and there is no authoritative difference, so there is no strict difference between the author and the reader. It is precisely because all readers of the Talmud (that is, all Jewish residents) participated in the creation (that is, revision and improvement) of this work that such a law has been continuously optimized and upgraded in the long river of time.

But it is a bit ridiculous to say that the author of Talmud was the first blog based on these. After all, I know what a "spider web" is, hehe. However, its concept is the concept of blog. Yes Who is the earliest blog on the real Internet? There is no way to prove it now. However, in 2000, A Jian of Taiwan Province Province published "Weblog: The Rise of a New Content Form", which was an earlier article introducing blogs systematically. The article was published on June 5438+1October 7, 2000. Not long after, Sina, the first portal in China, also reported the blog phenomenon in the industry news of Sina Technology, titled "Live Website and Log Website Popular in the United States", and the author signed it "Shao Yan". It can be seen that the blog phenomenon was of great concern at that time. The "9. 1 1" incident that shocked the world at that time must be fresh in everyone's memory. It is not only a great tragedy in the history of human society, but also directly promotes the popularization and development of blog, making it formally enter the field of vision of ordinary people. Within a few hours after the "9. 1 1" incident, almost all major traditional media websites were almost paralyzed due to excessive visits, including heavyweight media websites such as CNN, The New York Times and BBC, and many people thought that the coverage of more traditional TV media was not thorough and comprehensive. In fact, the internet did not die out under this sudden "blow", but was reborn in other ways or elsewhere. This is a blog. The most famous blog sites are Dave Winers' script news site (/) and Slashdot and Fark sites. These websites changed their previous anti-secular attitude and were filled with all kinds of relevant information at the first time of the incident. From personal descriptions of witnesses to nervously asking for information about friends and relatives. Among them, the most typical is the script news of Dave Winnes. This website, which was originally mainly to introduce the trends in some technical fields, assumed the responsibility of delivering the latest news when it was attacked. The whole morning of September 1 1 has been the best place to get first-hand information. On the day of September 1 1, there were nearly 100 news related to "9. 1 1 incident" on the script news website, including news and statements extracted from other media (Bush defined this as a terrorist war) and direct descriptions by witnesses (two towers) The New York Times also reported that scripted news, as a representative on the Internet, reflected people's reaction and concern about the attack. On the third day after the incident, Winers made some explanations on the website: "There are more people who can describe a story online. We know that in the face of sudden over-visit, the news website is almost paralyzed, and it fails to provide much valuable news. At this time, we immediately began to let more people contribute news and let more people get news on our own website. The internet is not dead, in fact, it has just begun. "

Compared with scripted news, the participants of another blog are far from their original "ideas". Fark, a "joke news" distribution center with the motto "This is not news, this is Fark", is very reluctant to become a "real" news source, but in fact they have become typical, which proves how many people want to get and provide news online. Within one day after the "9. 1 1" incident, there were 157 related messages. Then Drew cortese, the editor of the website, made a statement to further illustrate their ambivalence: "First, half apologize. These days, the problem we have encountered is how to smoothly transform us from a news-poking website into a real news website. We never thought we needed to do this, but because all news websites closed down after the' 9.11'incident, we had to undertake the task of making news websites. For the first time, I realized that our website is no longer a stupid funny website, but a news website that provides people with real information. This strict news authenticity has really never happened (here). "

Since then, blog has become a hot spot on the Internet, especially in the United States. Since 200 1, there have been many related reports in China. For example, in the 26th issue of that year, Digital Fortune Magazine published an article on blog written by Nicholas G.&: Carr, entitled Plastic Media. But it really aroused widespread concern and attention in China in the turn of summer and autumn in 2002. Since a generation of bloggers, represented by Fang Xingdong, established the "Blog China" website and vigorously promoted it, the brand-new concept of blog has really taken root in this vast land of China, and China blog websites have mushroomed.