What is a Blog?

A. According to the author, where does the word blog come from?
- According to the author, this is where "blog" comes from. The word web-log was born in 1997 after Jorn Barger, the administrator of Robot Wisdom, merged the two words into Weblog. Later, in 1999 Peter Merholtz, author of his own Weblog, divided the word into We Blog. This eventually was shortened into a Blog.

B. Why might the writer object to a book about blogs? What is the difference between a blog and a book?
- The writer objects to a book about blogs because she says both books and blogging have their own different language. A blog allows you to use links and random references while a book doesn't. Blog writing has evolved into its own language, and according to the author, this language does not apply to books and does not look good on books.

C. Have blogs changed recently?
- Blogs today are alot more different than from what they used to be. They began as being spaces for We blogs. Now, blogs range in hundreds of different topics. Also, since bloggers have an easier access to blogging, there are different types of bloggers as well. Blogs have become spaces for all kinds of people to share anything they want with the world, blogs have become more personal.

D. Why might you read a blog rather than a book, a magazine, or a newspaper?
- Blogs are very different from books. Bloggers have alot more freedom than an author in the sense that bloggers can blog about anything they feel like blogging while authors have to stick with their stories. Blogs will always be new and fresh while books or magazines are just narratives or continuations of stories. Also, blogs can be more intresting than books because if there is anything you want to comment about, you can ad it will go directly to the blogger. If you would like to comment on an author, you would have to wait for your fanmail to be answered.

E. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
- There is always reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog. In many cases, blogs are either anonymous or the blogger lies about the personal information they share. Obviously, all blogs are done with a purpose and an objective, however, if the blogger is not clear on what the objective is, the reader could doubt it. Also, if the blogger keeps changing the blog's topics, then the blog will not have a coherent target.

F. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?
- I would call my blog "Globe-trotting Behind the Screen".

G. Find three blogs that mention our summer reading.
- http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/content/
-http://www.beyond-ishmael.com/members/beyondishmael
-http://steve-mollmann.livejournal.com/155319.html