Weblogs

31035: ENGLISH PRAGMATICS GOLIS, MICHAL MESKOV, PETRA 13/12/2013

Content
What is a weblog?

History
What does a blogger do? Types of blogs Who let the blogs out? Research theory Blogs analyzed Unbrave Girl, Modern Nomad, Americana the Beautiful Lazy Travellers Conclusion References

What is a weblog?
Online website which consists of posts

Reverse chronological order

Special publishing software Comments

Add links, photos, videos

Mainstream

History
Online Diaries Justin Hall - 11 years of posting December 1997 first time used term web log

(John Barger Robot Wisdom WebLog) not only personal blogs, later news blogs

Jonathan Dube, Hurricane Bonnie

Later blogging platforms huge spread Nowadays more than 100 million blogs

What does a blogger do?

After creating a blog Chronology Frequency Focusing on a specific topic Sharing on social networks Referencing to older posts Expect the reader to know Blog society

Types of blogs
Basic types Personal blog (authors thoughts) Filter blog (author is an expert in specific field) Thematic blogs Mommy blogs very popular Pet blogs Microblogging (140-character limit) Facebook Twitter YouTube

Who let the blogs out?

Evan Williams, Pyra Labs Blogger (1999) Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little WordPress (2003) Arianna Huffington HuffingtonPost (2005) David Karp Tumblr (2007)

Research theory
A blogger tends to use a bank of information

created by himself in his previous posts which he may refer to, assuming readers familiarity with the information references to his older posts may not only serve to avoid redundancy and build natural continuity between them but also to create a certain feeling of community or buddying among those in the know, i.e. the author and the regular followers of his blog.

Unbrave Girl
MITTEN LIST: FRANKENMUTH

It will be a surprise to noone that I love cheese.

Remember when I decided to kick off the Go Solo Project by going to a male strip show by myself and you all thought I was crazy and many of you sent me concerned emails beginning with the words, Umm, ARE YOU CRAZY?

Lazy Travellers
If youll recall, our very last week of our five month

RTW was off to a stellar start, thanks to two very fulfilling days of rotten shark-eating and black death-imbibing in Reykjavik.

extensive use of linking in order to facilitate

understanding

Other Blogs
Modern Nomad Most pride festivals are big fun flamboyant parties and an opportunity to show off our subculture in the prime real estate of the cities and societies we love.

Americana the Beautiful no occurrence of the explored phenomenon it is a travel journal nonetheless

Conclusion
Rather than being an essential characteristic of a

journal-type travelogue, references to an information bank created by a blogger over time in his/her previous writings seem to have more to do with authorial preferences than stylistic characteristics of the genre and may therefore be used fairly extensively and frequently or, conversely, be almost or completely absent without necessarily taking away from the blogs journal-like character .

References
Cross, Mary. Bloggerati, Twitterati: how blogs and

Twitter are transforming popular culture. California: Praeger, 2011. PDF file. Yus, Francisco. Weblogs: Web pages in search of a genre? http://www.unbravegirl.com/ http://www.themodernnomad.com/ http://americanathebeautiful.org/ http://thelazytravelers.com/

Thank you for attention.