On the next edition of the Random Access Thought for the week ending June 15th, My Number One and Only Son Zachary James Baran is the program host and the subject is BLOGS! Broadcasting virtually live and direct from one of Big City Cable's largest underground Internet tubes, Zach brings us up to date on the remarkable history and incredible popularity of Internet blogs! Tune in to This Week in Amateur Radio over your local repeater, the 50,000 watt shortwave giant WBCQ or via podcast for the Random Access Thought! Go get TWIAR edition #792 and TWIARi edition #177 right away!
Here's a transcript of the RATBLOG script that Zach followed:
Oh hello there! Zach Baran here! The other day, my Dad N2FNH said to George W2XBS: "I think there shall be blogs on the official This Week in Amateur Radio website". So, after many weeks of intense study, investigation and miscellaneous delay, the TWIAR website now has staff blogs so everyone can get the latest inside poop on what's going behind the scenes.
But what exactly is a blog anyway?
It turns out the word 'blog" is short for web log. A blog is a website with a journal of personal opinion. The word "blog" can also be used as a verb: as in "to blog". That is, to add or maintain content. There are all kinds of blogs. Some can be defined by type.
While many blogs report on contemporary news events, others are personal diaries. Blogs can be anything you want! There are art blogs, photo blogs, video blogs. You name it: There's a blog out there for everyone on any subject you can possibly imagine.
The entire universe of blogs is called the blogosphere and a group of local content blogs is called a bloghood. And there are special search engines you can use to locate specific blog subjects. Some of the better known search engines include blogscope, bloglines and Technorati. Technorati is one of the best known engines which offer up-to-date detail on blogs around the world.
The idea of blogging first appeared on virtual radar screens in the late 1990's and soon became front page for their role in not only breaking news headlines, but also by shaping details and placing their own spin in the headlines, a clear departure from the more traditional objective journalism.
Those in the know say that blogging may have peaked in 2007 with about 100 million personal blogs posted on the Internet. On the flip side, some 200 million additional bloggers have stopped publishing and have abandoned their efforts, leaving behind a whole bunch of digital detritus.
The whole idea of Internet blogs goes back to USENET and commercial online services, like CompuServe and Genie and also Bulletin Board Systems. Hams are familiar with BBSes through Amateur Packet Radio and HF Pactor where time delayed on-air discussions in message form were once very popular.
On the Internet, diaries were distant ancestors where users could text their personal soap operas for a virtual audience to read. That is, if anyone was so interested.
Right now, blogs are such a mainstream thing that even some of the staff here at this Week in Amateur Radio are doing their own blogs. Even I have my own blog!
My Dad says blogs can be a useful add-on resource for amateur radio club websites. A lot of effort goes into ham pages but many of them are one-way streets. Blogs can be a new way for a more personal one-on-one contact between hams over the Internet, just like packet radio was many years ago.
So in the meantime, check us out! Go to www.twiar.org and click on "STAFF BLOGS". You will be amazed at what you read!
This is Zach Baran, signing off!
Here's a transcript of the RATBLOG script that Zach followed:
Oh hello there! Zach Baran here! The other day, my Dad N2FNH said to George W2XBS: "I think there shall be blogs on the official This Week in Amateur Radio website". So, after many weeks of intense study, investigation and miscellaneous delay, the TWIAR website now has staff blogs so everyone can get the latest inside poop on what's going behind the scenes.
But what exactly is a blog anyway?
It turns out the word 'blog" is short for web log. A blog is a website with a journal of personal opinion. The word "blog" can also be used as a verb: as in "to blog". That is, to add or maintain content. There are all kinds of blogs. Some can be defined by type.
While many blogs report on contemporary news events, others are personal diaries. Blogs can be anything you want! There are art blogs, photo blogs, video blogs. You name it: There's a blog out there for everyone on any subject you can possibly imagine.
The entire universe of blogs is called the blogosphere and a group of local content blogs is called a bloghood. And there are special search engines you can use to locate specific blog subjects. Some of the better known search engines include blogscope, bloglines and Technorati. Technorati is one of the best known engines which offer up-to-date detail on blogs around the world.
The idea of blogging first appeared on virtual radar screens in the late 1990's and soon became front page for their role in not only breaking news headlines, but also by shaping details and placing their own spin in the headlines, a clear departure from the more traditional objective journalism.
Those in the know say that blogging may have peaked in 2007 with about 100 million personal blogs posted on the Internet. On the flip side, some 200 million additional bloggers have stopped publishing and have abandoned their efforts, leaving behind a whole bunch of digital detritus.
The whole idea of Internet blogs goes back to USENET and commercial online services, like CompuServe and Genie and also Bulletin Board Systems. Hams are familiar with BBSes through Amateur Packet Radio and HF Pactor where time delayed on-air discussions in message form were once very popular.
On the Internet, diaries were distant ancestors where users could text their personal soap operas for a virtual audience to read. That is, if anyone was so interested.
Right now, blogs are such a mainstream thing that even some of the staff here at this Week in Amateur Radio are doing their own blogs. Even I have my own blog!
My Dad says blogs can be a useful add-on resource for amateur radio club websites. A lot of effort goes into ham pages but many of them are one-way streets. Blogs can be a new way for a more personal one-on-one contact between hams over the Internet, just like packet radio was many years ago.
So in the meantime, check us out! Go to www.twiar.org and click on "STAFF BLOGS". You will be amazed at what you read!
This is Zach Baran, signing off!
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