How to Trend Twitter - the @ideaShare Way!

1. Get some 70 people or so into one room,
   
   
2. Hook 'em up with the Internet,
   
   
3. Ask each to log in to Twitter.com
   (after creating a new account for the first time, if new user), and
   
   
4. Start tweeting with #ideashare tag!

After some shameless act of self-promotion for twitter names owned/co-owned by facilitators i.e. @cerventus,@myentrepreneurs, @worldisastage, @pieartboy, @michaelteoh, @elevyn_official etc., the not-so-newbies and newbies altogether sent well over 200 tweets with #ideashare tag over the course of over two hours, by which "ideashare" was already trending clearly on Twitter.com and on tag cloud at sites like Twitscoop etc, as observed by below graph, sparking curiosity among twitizens:


There were negative side effects though: The room was so packed with people, that those in the room were suffering internet surfing slowness frustration syndrome (as 20-30 ppl cramping wirelessly the small pipe of 1.5Mbps temporary/dedicated DSL installation at any one time), and to make things worse, the aircond couldn't stand the heat emitted by after-lunch human crowd and broke down, sending the room into the state of microwave and fried most of these brainiacs turning them into crappy tweeters, irritating everyone else in the twitterverse including @kamal, @lukejsmith and @bytebot, among others!

Guess, most of the people in the room hasn't heard about @kevinrose's latest gift to the web 2.0 crowd: @wefollow, ie. http://wefollow.com/tag/ideashare - you don't need to blatantly self-promote your twitter name. Instead, just tag, and you're it!

Need more tag ideas? Try "penang" (or the state you're from, which you can change at a later time) and "malaysia" (we're all Malaysians right? and there's no rooms in twitterspace!)

I'm also surprise why the facilitators were showcasing twitterfall and twitpic websites, when tweetdeck clearly has all of those small gimmicks with growing features like group, search and twitpic. (note: twitpic.com was down at the time of demo!)

The first of the two-day event in conjunction with the MSC Innotech 2009 Interstate - Northern Region event was organized by Kuala Lumpur-based Ureka Labs, and financed by the Cyberjaya-based Technopreneur Development Division of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC), custodian for the MSC Malaysia government initiative.

More information is available at the event-centric/local networking site developed by folks at Eureka Labs, http://ideashare.my

Surprisingly(?), not many people, despite having a horde of 60+ participants at the venue yesterday, are following @netbash or @ideashare (ownership questionable), with just thirteen and four followers respectively as of 7 am on the next day.

And folks @ MDEC neither owns @mdec nor @tedd twitter names, which are both registered by others as early as nearly a year ago (30mar08 for "mdec") -- Should I reveal more brandjackable twitter names??


About Twitscoop:

Twitter was built to help thousands of people answer a very simple question: "What are you doing ?"

Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter's hot topics or discussions.

Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter, the bigger (no joke here).

Thanks to twitscoop and the continuously growing twitter user base, you will soon realise that "What are you doing ?" can have very different answers, from "I'm standing in a queue of 500 to buy Gta4", to "Was that just an Earthquake ?", through to "Hey, Microsoft just acquired Yahoo" (no this didn't actually happen yet).

As a result, twitscoop enables you to stay on top of things in a matter of seconds, often way before the news actually hits the mainstream information channels !

WoNoJo is in the elite 90+ percentile group!

Not bad... That's over 100 mark, not so far from the top-50s with 200+ points, according to TwitterRank!! Believe in WoNoJo today... :)

CheDet Lompat Lagi

The URL domain for Che Det's blog that is...

chedet.com

The first blog post by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, the former longest-serving Prime Minister of Malaysia who's warmly known by the locals of his birthplace as Che Det, was recorded on 1st of May 2008 (Labour Day holiday in Malaysia) when the nation was still in shock over the power of blogs (new media) that gave the ruling Barisan National (National Coalition) party its biggest lost in decades -- In fact, if Malaysians had embraced the new media significantly much earlier, perhaps, Dr M himself would have to cut short his prime ministership tenure that ended on his postponed resignation back in 2003.

The motivation for blogging for Tun M, judging from his earliest posts back in May 2008 was to counter mounting criticism against him, both from his older critics, and also the new critics from the ruling BN government, of which many of whom pointing the blame to his still powerful influence upon Malaysians to not giving BN a two-third control of the parliament during the March 8th election. Less than three weeks later, on Wesak holiday (19 May 2008) Mahathir resigned from UMNO, the backbone of the BN and a party he's been attached to for over 30 years. Since then, the blog has served as a free outlet for him, to defend himself verbally, as well as continue offering unbiased opinions on everything Malaysia and the world, and once shot to a popularity rank of top under 10,000 in the world, and top-100 in Malaysia, closing in the web traffic ranks of mainstream news media like the Star, Malaysia Kini, Utusan Malaysia & Kosmo and several of Media Prima's publications.

In fact, Mahathir today is probably the most popular former head of state in the world, who blogs regularly.The hard-to-catch personality who still travels around the world frequently, becomes easy to follow this time - practically everyday, his writings are reviewed and reposted by both the new and old media - blogs and daily newspapers.

Just check out Mahathir's most recent quotes on daily basis as tracked by Google News aggregation service:-

"What is most comical is hearing Anwar's comments regarding Nasarudin who joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat and left PKR. Jumping in (the trap) is allowed but jumping out is illegal," Dr Mahathir said.

10 hours ago Malaysia Today (2 occurrences)

"However, he can't put it off for a long because the assembly will need to convene to table the budget and such," said Dr Mahathir.

14 hours ago Malaysia Star (2 occurrences)

"But if the menteri besar did not want to convene a state assembly, then how can we force him to call for one? The law states that a vote of no-confidence should have been passed before there is a change in the government. Even if they continue to...

Feb 6, 2009 Bernama (2 occurrences)

"What can be done to a minority government if it remains and continues to harm the state? This situation is still vague as to my knowledge, there are no legal provisions for such situations," Dr Mahathir said, adding state officials might not...

Feb 5, 2009 The Malaysian Insider (2 occurrences)

"The Israelis have learnt a lot from the Nazis. They are using Nazi methods against the Palestinians. I thought they would sympathise with other people, having been oppressed and tortured by the Nazis...... but no, now they want to do the same...

Feb 5, 2009 New Straits Times (1 occurrence)

The former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohammed, has said that "the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."

14 hours ago Today's Zaman (18 occurrences)

When asked if the Malays would be upset with the legal suit, Dr Mahathir said as a Malay himself, he disagreed but, "there are many Malays now who are supporting Karpal".

14 hours ago Malaysia Star (2 occurrences)

"He is the one that really wanted the biggest party hopping on Sept 16. Oh! Mistake, Sept 24. Oh! A mistake again," Dr Mahathir wrote with glee about his protege-turned-nemesis whom he sacked in 1998.

Feb 5, 2009 The Malaysian Insider (2 occurrences)

Dr Mahathir said United States President Barack Obama was "quite free to do a lot of things but with regard to Israel, he is paralysed. His hands are tied".

Feb 5, 2009 New Straits Times (1 occurrence)

"Kedah's situation is very different from Perak," Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir, the MP for Jerlun, told The Edge Financial Daily. "Kedah is a PAS-led government."

Feb 4, 2009 The Edge Daily (1 occurrence)

His blogging domain name chedet.com was so popular, that others have also registered .net, .org and .info counterparts of the name "chedet" immediately after the first blog post of Mahathir made the big buzz around cyberspace and mainstream media. The domain even made it to four wikipedia pages including a Japanese version for Dr Mahathir's biodata. These however are understandable.

chedet.cc?

But closing in 2008, many were puzzled when a migration to chedet.cc was announced. The new domain that was registered on Christmas Day, was officially launched on New Year's Day following the last past on chedet.com on 31st of December. Speculations arose that move was to not support US-dominated .com domain (overseen by US-based Verisign, Inc as licensed registry company). But both chedet.com and chedet.cc rely on Verisign as their registry, being .cc overseen by eNic, also Verisign company (since 2001) despite chedet.com being registered through eNom (second largest domain registrar as of 2008, with strong cooperation with Verisign through eNom's owner, Demand Media), and chedet.cc being registered through GoDaddy (largest domain registrar as of 2008, also a US-based company) - although I myself immediately speculated back then that the use of .cc TLD was to promote Malaysian-based Qinetics Solutions (a unit of MOL/Vincent Tan's Berjaya, through web.cc and webnic.cc sites, acquired from WeBCC), among the first proponents for .cc domain.

For most petty domain owners however, the switch from the much cheaper .com to a .cc seem pointless - why pay more? (why waste money) -- Oh well, the site with a popularity such as chedet.com can definitely afford it, with the cash it can naturally pulls! Read on...

With the new domain comes the new management (and ownership!) for the domain: Mutual Digital Sdn Bhd, chaired by Datuk Wan Lokman Bin Dato' Paduka Wan Ibrahim and headed executively by Tuan Haji Ismail Bin Daud. From the company's website, Mutual Digital boasts an impresive list of partners for its Mobile ASP business - practically every major name in the local telco and entertainment production industry. Its flagship service, the musiclobby.net, however seems to be put on hold for now. So the company's service to the public consumers for now has got be delivering content from chedet's both via web and perhaps mobile too. And to finance it, and perhaps make a hefty profit too, by sponsorship opportunities on the website. Great, but the small fish would have to wait, because the cheapest ad placement starts of RM2,100 for an "inside page" banner space at RM300 per day (7-day minimum) and the premium space on top of the page costs a whopping RM1K/day, making it one of the most expensive online ad space for a Malaysia-based publication -- if completely booked, this one site can easily pull about RM1-million in ad revenue per year!

chedet.co.cc ??

By mid January 2009, the site started giving a headscratch again - a soft switch to chedet.co.cc - a subdomain of a popular free DNS service by Korea-based co.cc (an independent company, not a domain sTLD like com.my etc.)? Could it be that this is to hide the site's popularity that are naturally metered by traffic ranking service Alexa? After all, based on a six-month monitoring, chedet.com has suffered dwindling popularity from a top-10K in October down to a rank of top-40K by December before missing from the top-100K radar after the domain switch? Supposedly, lack of controversies and increase in new media competition may have caused this, except of course, by early February 2009, when millions flock again to chedet.com to find out what Tun has to say with regards to the Perak political crisis.

The little traffic graph spike recorded by Alexa during the first week of Feb '09 shows how people still remember .com the most, being it is the most popular top-level domain with about two-third market share.

URL Jump

The concern here is CONTROL. A domain ownership is like a land title. Being approved as a domain registrant means that you're holding the exclusive right (no freeholds as of yet) to its use, and you are required to pay the relevant authorities a minimal annual fee. And in most cases, unlike popular physical land leaseholds for up to 99 years, domains can generally be held for a maximum of ten years. This provides the owner the most control - unless if you've falsify ownership or commit other activities not permitted by the registry or registrar, you can safely do what you want with the domain.

Tun Mahathir unfortunately does not owns the domain chedet.cc, which has been personally registered by one CEO of Mutual Digital for exclusive use by the said individual (not company), and ultimately owned by assigned registry (eNic), and above it, the governing entity for Cocos Islands (presently under Australian control). Though, should any control dispute arise, Tun can legally contest for the right for the domain via Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UNDP) set by ICANN, or any other legal agreements made between Tun and Hj Ismail/Mutual Digital -- However, consider that the less-monitored smaller entity eNic can easily dictate chedet.cc versus chedet.com (which on the other hand, registered through the rather influential Godaddy, and closely-watched Verisign).

The use of chedet.co.cc on the other hand might be a setback: suddenly, chedet's site is under the full mercy and possible monitoring of a single company co.cc -- it's hard to decide on infrastructure reliability, security, features etc.

For certain however, the possible move to avoid close monitory by Alexa and the likes (Compete.com etc.) is temporary, as once co.cc becomes very popular which it already is, Alexa will switch to monitor subdomains similar to what it does with blogspot.com, geocities.com and the likes.

And it puzzles me greatly on how a less than 1-year old domain bears a 199 changes on its whois record! BTW, Mutual Digital ironically does not even fully control its own mutualdigital.com and musiclobby.net...

Whatever it is, it's not Belilah Barangan Buatan Malaysia (Buy Malaysian) for Che Det for now, as chedet.my and chedet.com.my are registered for Kuching-based Jacob Liew (CDC) and KL-based C Wong (Alpha Global) respectively...


(in reference to Che Det's Lompat Lagi, Feb 6, 2009... This lompat-lompat reminds me of Battlestar Galatica's Jump, jump parodies)

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I.T. is BIZ: Are Malaysian SMEs ready for e-Commerce?

It sure will be fun to have good business, and I.T. can just do that: promote commerce, hence fun! At least that's what MiRC is advocating through its full-week of ICT events in Penang until tomorrow, Tuesday 18 DEC 2007.

Here's the promo/informational poster from MCA ICT Resource Centre for the event later this morning:


Happy learning!

Jom memblog untuk berniaga...

I originally posted this article on ICTpenang Crowdvine, but it was in plain-text format due to Crowdvine's lack of support for rich text (as of yet). Read on... (sorry if you can't understand it -- it's in Malay language).

"Blog" dan pengaruhnya telah hangat diperdebatkan di Amerika Syarikat bermula tahun 2004 apabila ahli politik tempatannya menyelar penulis-penulis blog yang mengkritik kerajaan atau ahli-ahli politik, sambil menyimpulkan bahawa penulis-penulis sedemikian yang hanya menulis sambil berpakaian baju tidur ("pajamas") justeru tidak cukup berwibawa untuk penerimaan orang ramai.

Tidak lama kemudian, pada awal tahun 2007, setelah penulisan dan pembacaan blog menjadi popular di kalangan ratusan juta pengguna Internet ketika itu, rakyat Malaysia pula dijerumuskan dalam kancah perbicaraan media umum (mainstream) apabila ahli-ahli politiknya mula menyelar penulis-penulis blog bersifat "SOPO" (sosio-politik) yang kebanyakannya mengkritik kerajaan. Menteri Penerangan Malaysia pula terus mengemukakan gelaran " goblog" untuk penulis-penulis sedemikian.

Kini, Technorati, sebuah engin gelintar yang menganalisa perkembangan "blogosphere" menganggarkan lebih daripada 100 juta blog yang diselia oleh puluhan juta penulis-penerbit (tidak termasuk lebih 250 juta laman media sosial seperti profil Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, LinkedIn dsb.), yakni lebih kurang SATU penulis blog setiap SEPULUH pengguna Internet, menjadikan kumpulan penerbitan ini sebagai yang terbesar dalam sejarah peradaban manusia berbanding dengan penerbitan makalah-makalah lain seperti suratkhabar ataupun majalah dan jurnal.

Kalau dikira ribuan emel-emel yang telah saya hantarkan ke pelbagai kumpulan elektronik (di platform Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, BBS, FTP, Usenet, Web Egroups dsb.) sejak dari tahun 1992 dan pelbagai penulisan di laman Web sejak tahun 1993, mungkin saya boleh digolongkan dalam kumpulan puluhan ribu "blogger" yang pertama di dunia. Begitupun apa yang membezakan blog dan karya-karya lain yang diterbitkan dalam ruang sesawang ialah kekerapan dan formatnya -- blog memerlukan disiplin yang tinggi untuk tukang karya agar sentiasa menulis sekurang-kurangnya sekali seminggu, dan dipaparkan berbentuk diari atau penerbitan makalah formal, seperti akhbar atau majalah, lengkap dengan tarikh dan keupayaan carian sama ada menggunakan kata-kata kunci (keywords) tertentu atau label ("tags"). Menyedari tren sebegini, walaupun agak lambat, saya sendiri telah mula menyelia beberapa blog secara serius sejak awal tahun ini. [Saya mula menggunakan aplikasi khusus untuk pemblogan termasuklah blogger.com dan LiveJournal seawal tahun 2000]

Hari ini, blog bukanlah hanya media penerbitan anak-anak walaupun kebanyakan blog bersifat sedemikian. Penulis blog popular seperti Michael Arrington di laman Techcrunch.com, cukup dihormati dan diikuti oleh jutaan pembaca termasuk lebih 600,000 pengguna Internet yang melanggan penulisan beliau dan ahli-ahli kumpulannya melalui sindikasi RSS - bandingkan dengan langganan akhbar The Star atau New Straits Times misalnya yang kurang daripada separuh jumlah tersebut! Contoh lain untuk blog popular termasuklah laman engadget, gizmodo, Huffington Post (oleh Arianna Huffington), Pete Cashmore's Mashable.com, BoingBoing, TMZ (celebrity sightings) dan Chris Pirillo (bekas hos program-program di TechTV).

Malah, beberapa penulis blog di Malaysia mampu menjadikan aktiviti sebegini sebagai kerjaya profesional mereka dengan penulis-usahawan terkenal seperti Liew Choon Foong, Gobala Krishnan, Samsul Zamzuri, Kenny Sia dan Chan Lilian yang mampu menjanakan pendapatan lima angka (RM) setiap bulan daripada sumber pengiklanan dan penulisan berbayar di blog masing-masing.

Jika diamalkan secare efektif, blog boleh dijadikan sebuah alat yang cukup berkuasa untuk perniagaan anda. Lihat saja bagaimana beberapa ahli perniagaan dan teknokrat terkemuka seperti Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), Joichi Ito (Creative Commons), Bob Parsons (Godaddy - syarikat penghosan Web terbesar di dunia), Tim O'Reilly dan Tim Berners Lee menggunakan blog sebagai alat untuk meningkatkan kesetiaan pelanggan atau pembaca serta menambah pelangan-pelanggan baru. Di Malaysia pula, kita ada Tengku Zafrul (Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Tune Money -- anak syarikat Air Asia Group), Timothy Tiah (CEO of Penang-based NuffNang Malaysia, yang mana beliau bersama-sama dengan pengasas syarikat yang sama tapi berpejabat di Singapura, dinamakan oleh majalah terkemuka BusinessWeek sebagai sebahagian daripada 25 Usahawan Muda Terbaik di Asia) dan sudah tentu, Nasir Sobri (oops, I only maintain a company blog, not a personal one, yet -- not ready to be so bold yet).


Sudahkan ada blog?

Pernahkah anda membaca blog? (Anda sedang membacanya di saat ini!).

Apakah itu blog sebenarnya? Mari kita rujuk Wikipedia untuk mengetahui apakah yang pengguna Internet katakan tentang blog:-

Blog (singkatan untuk web log dalam bahasa Inggeris) ialah sebuah laman web yang kemasukan-kemasukannya ditulis menurut urutan kronologi dan dipaparkan dengan tertib terbalik.

Blog memberikan ulasan atau berita mengenai sesuatu tajuk, umpamanya makanan, politik , atau berita tempatan, dengan sesetengah blog berperanan lebih sebagai buku harian peribadi dalam talian . Blog yang tipikal menggabungan teks, imej, dan pautan ke dalam blog, laman web, dan media lain yang berkaitan dengan topiknya. Keupayaan para pembaca untuk meninggalkan ulasan mereka dalam format interaktif merupakan ciri yang utama untuk banyak blog. Kebanyakan blog umumnya adalah blog teks, walaupun sesetengahnya bertumpu pada gambar foto ( blog foto), video (vlog), muzik (blog MP3), atau audio ( podcasting), dan merupakan sebahagian rangkaian media sosial yang lebih luas.

Istilah "blog" merupakan kata lakur untuk perkataan "web" dan "log" (Web log). "Blog" juga boleh digunakan sebagai kata kerja yang membawa pengertian "untuk memeliharakan atau menambahkan isi kandungan ke dalam blog."

Jadual isi kandungan

• 1 Sejarah
  • 1.1 1983-1990 (Pra-HTTP)
  • 1.2 1994–2001
• 2 Lihat juga
• 3 Bacaan tambahan
• 4 Rujukan
• 5 Pautan luar

Sejarah

Babad, buku Commonplace, buku harian, perzin and persatuan akhbar amatur boleh dilihatkan sebagai pendahulu-pendahulu blog. Sebelum blog menjadi popular, terdapat banyak bentuk komuniti-komuniti digital, termasuk:

• Usenet
• perkhidmatan komersil dalam talian, seperti GEnie, BiX, dan CompuServe yang awal;
• senarai emel; ^[2] dan
• sistem papan buletin (BBS).

Pada dekad 1990-an, perisian forum internet seperti WebEx mencipta perbualan selari dengan "bebenang". Bebenang merupakan hubungan topik antara perutusan-perutusan pada " papan gabus" metafora. Sesetengah orang telah mempersamakan blog dengan gerakan Mass-Observation yang diasaskan pada tahun 1937 di United Kingdom.

1983-1990 (Pra-HTTP)

Usenet ialah perantara bersiri yang utama yang terangkum dalam takrif Jaringan Sejagat (WWW) yang asal. ^[3] Ia menonjolkan Kumpulan Berita Tersederhana yang membenarkan semua pengeposan dikawal oleh seorang individu atau sekumpulan pengguna yang kecil. Kebanyakan kumpulan berita tersebut hanya merupakan forum-forum perbualan tersederhana. Bagaimanapun pada tahun 1983-94, satu kekecualian, iaitu mod.ber telah dicipta, dikendalikan, dan dinamai sempena Brian E. Redman. Secara tetap, Redman dan beberapa rakannya akan mengeposkan ringkasan pos-pos dan bebenang-bebenang yang menarik dari laman- laman web yang lain dalam internet. Dengan gaya penerbitan jurnal bersiri, kehadiran dalam jaringan pra-HTTP, serta persamaan yang rapat dengan bentuk blog kini yang biasa — ia menonjolkan pautan ke laman-laman web yang menarik yang dipilih oleh pengguna blog — mod.ber mempunyai banyak ciri yang biasanya dikaitkan dengan istilah Blog. Walaupun demikian, mod.ber menamatkan operasinya selepas lebih kurang 8 bulan.

1994–2001

Blog moden berkembang daripada buku-buku harian dalam talian yang digunakan untuk menyimpan huraian selari tentang kehidupan-kehidupan peribadi mereka. Kebanyakan penulis ini merujuk kepada diri sendiri sebagai penulis diari, wartawan, atau penulis jurnal, dengan sebilangan kecil memanggil diri sendiri sebagai " eskribisionis" (escribitionist).

Gelang laman web (webring) Halaman-halaman Terbuka merangkumi ahli-ahli komuniti jurnal dalam talian. Justin Hall yang menggunakan blog peribadi sejak dari tahun 1994 ketika masih belajar di Kolej Swarthmore umumnya dianggap sebagai salah satu pengguna perintis blog yang awal, ^[4] bersama-sama Jerry Pournelle.

Bentuk-bentuk jurnal yang lain juga wujud dalam talian. Satu contoh yang terkenal ialah jurnal John Carmack , seorang pengaturcara permainan. Jurnalnya yang diterbitkan melalui protokol jari telah dibaca secara meluas. Laman-laman web, baik laman korporat mahupun laman peribadi, masih kerap kali menonjolkan bahagian-bahagian "Berita" atau "Berita Terkini", seringnya di dalam laman utama masing-masing dan disisihkan mengikut tarikh. Salah satu "weblog" berasaskan berita ialah Laporan Drudge yang diasaskan oleh Matt Drudge. Drudge menggelar diri sebagai pemberita pengingkar walaupun beliau jelas tidak suka akan pengelasan ini. Lagi satu contoh ialah Institut untuk Ketepatan Awam yang mula mengeposkan siaran-siaran berita yang menonjolkan petikan-petikan berita seperenggan daripada laman-laman web yang lain banyak kali seminggu mulai dari tahun 1998. Satu contoh pendahulu yang awal yang patut diberikan perhatian ialah laman web peribadi gurauan Kibo, legenda Usenet yang sentiasa dikemaskinikan.

Weblog-weblog yang awal hanya merupakan komponen-komponen laman web biasa yang dikemaskinikan secara manual. Bagaimanapun, pengembangan alat-alat untuk memudahkan penghasilan dan pemeliharaan rencana-rencana web yang diposkan mengikut tertib kronologi terbalik menyebabkan proses penerbitan boleh dilaksanakan oleh lebih banyak orang yang kurang mahir dari segi keupayaan teknikal. Ini akhirnya menyebabkan sebuah kelas penerbitan dalam talian yang terdiri yang menerbitkan apa yang diakui sebagai blog pada hari ini. Umpamanya, penggunaan perisian berasaskan pelayar kini merupakan suatu aspek "pemblogan" yang biasa. Blog-blog boleh dihoskan, baik oleh perkhidmatan- perkhidmatan pengehosan blog yang khusus, mahupun melalui perisian blog, seperti WordPress, Movable Type, blogger atau LiveJournal, atau dalam perkhidmatan-perkhidmatan pengehosan web yang tetap seperti DreamHost.

Istilah "weblog" dicipta oleh Jorn Barger pada 17 Disember 1997, manakala singkatannya, "blog," dicipta oleh Peter Merholz yang secara bermain-main memecahkan perkataan weblog menjadi frasa we blog di palang sisi blognya, Peterme.com pada April atau Mei 1999. ^{[5][6] [7]} Ini dengan pantasnya diterima, baik sebagai kata nama mahupun sebagai "kata kerja" dalam bahasa Inggeris ("to blog," bermaksud "mengedit weblog atau mengeposkan perutusan ke dalam weblog").

Selepas sebuah permulaan yang lambat, pemblogan dengan pantasnya mencapai kepopularan: laman web Xanga yang dilancarkan pada tahun 1996 hanya mempunyai 100 kemasukan menjelang 1997, tetapi melebihi 20 juta pada bulan Disember 2005. Penggunaan blog meledak pada tahun 1999 dan selepas nya, dipopularkan lagi ketibaan-ketibaan hampir serentak alat-alat blog pengehosan yang awal:

• Open Diary yang dilancarkan pada Oktober 1998 tidak lama kemudian berkembang sehingga beribu-ribu kemasukan dalam talian. Open Diary membuat pembaharuan kepada ulasan pembaca dan menjadi komunit blog yang pertama yang para pembaca boleh menambahkan ulasan mereka pada kemasukan blog penulis yang lain.
  
  
• Brad Fitzpatrick, seorang pengguna blog yang terkenal memulakan LiveJournal pada bulan Mac 1999.
  
  
• Andrew Smales mencipta Pitas.com pada bulan Julai 1999 sebagai pilihan yang lebih mudah untuk mengendalikan "laman berita" dalam laman web. Ini diikuti oleh penciptaan Diaryland pada bulan September 1999 yang lebih menumpukan pada komuniti diari peribadi. ^[8]
  
  
• Evan Williams dan Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) melancarkan blogger.com pada bulan Ogos 1999 (dibeli oleh Google pada bulan Februari 2003).

Pemblogan menggabungkan laman web peribadi dengan alat-alat untuk memudahkan perpuatan ke halaman-halaman dalam talian. — khususnya permalink, blogroll dan TrackBack. Ini, bersama-sama dengan enjin carian blog membolehkan pengguna blog untuk menjejaki bebenang-bebenang yang menghubungkan mereka kepada orang-orang lain yang mempunyai minat yang sama.

Bacaan tambahan

• Alavi, Nasrin. We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs, Percetakan Soft Skull, New York, 2005. ISBN 1-933368-05-5 .
• Bruns, Axel, dan Joanne Jacobs, ed. Uses of Blogs, Peter Lang, New York, 2006. ISBN 0-8204-8124-6 .
• Kline, David; Burstein, Dan. Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, Squibnocket Partners, L.L.C., 2005. ISBN 1-59315-141-1.

Rujukan

1. ↑ Blogosphere melihatkan pertumbuhan yang sihat.. (2006-11-08). Dicapai pada 2007-03-15.
2. ↑ Istilah "e-log" telah digunakan untuk menghuraikan kemasukan jurnal yang dihantar melalui emel sejak dari seawal Mac 1996. Norman, David (2005-07-13), Pengguna dikelirukan oleh blog, < http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2005-07/msg00208.html> (retrieved on 2007-Feb-20), Para kakitangan dan pelajar penyelidikan mengalu-alukan 'E-Log'. Kolej Universiti London: (Disember 2003). Dicapai pada 2007-02-20.
3. ↑ Berners-Lee Tim. Jaringan Sejagat: Cadangan untuk sebuah Projek HiperTeks. Dicapai pada 2007-03-22.
4. ↑ Harmanci Reyhan (2005-02-20). Masa dah tiba untuk memeriahkan kehidupan anda — Justin Hall, pengguna perintis blog, berundur pada umur 31 tahun. San Francisco Chronicle. Dicapai pada 2006-06-09.
5. ↑ " It's the links, stupid", The Economist, 2006-4-20. Retrieved on 2006-07-21.
6. ↑ Merholz Peter (1999). Peterme.com. The Internet Archive. Dicapai pada 2006-07-21.
7. ↑ Kottke Jason (August 26, 2003). kottke.org. Dicapai pada 2006-07-21.
8. ↑ Jensen, Mallory A Brief History of Weblogs

Pautan luar

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• Carta pembandingan perisian blog oleh Online Journalism Review, USC Annenberg
• Pemblogan, dan penyertaan peribadi dalam pembangunan pengetahuan awam dalam talian (fail PDF) oleh Mark Brady, Kertas Kerja Chimera 2005-02 Colchester: Universiti Essex
• Laporan Undang-undang dan Keselamatan Komputer Jilid 22, Terbitan 2, m.s. 127-136 — blog, bohong dan doocing oleh Sylvia Kierkegaard (2006)
• Panduan undang-undang untuk pengguna blog oleh Yayasan Electronic Frontier

Panjangnya...! ;)

Macammana nak bermula? Anda boleh menggunakan alat yang anda sedang tatapi sekarang ini untuk menyumbangkan karya anda (sebagai latihan atau secara langsung) dengan mengemukakan penulisan tentang berita, acara, pengumuman, pantun, cerpen, sajak, artikel ilmiah atau apa saja...

Untuk tujuan peribadi atau komersil, bolehlah bermula dengan menggunakan khidmat percuma Blogger.com -- Saya berpeluang berjumpa dengan Evan Williams, salah seorang daripada pengasas Blogger.com semasa Web2Expo Tokyo baru-baru ini ;) [blogger.com bagaimanapun telah dipindah milik kepada syarikat gergasi Google, dan beliau kini mempelopori produk terbaru, Twitter.com - alat untuk pemblogan mikro]

Jika anda sudah bersedia untuk memblog secara profesional, bolehlah menggunakan perisian seperti WordPress (sumber terbuka percuma) atau perisian komersil lain sama ada dihoskan sendiri atau dihoskan oleh penyedia komersil (ASP). (psst... 1oasis.net)

Untuk penggemar telefon bimbit, mungkin boleh selia "moblog" seperti yang dipelopori oleh Joi Ito - sempat juga saya jumpa Mr Ito di Tokyo baru-baru ini, dan kami telahpun menjemput beliau ke Malaysia (sedang tunggu pengesahan sama ada dia akan datang ke Kuala Lumpur bulan depan atau tidak).

Selamat berkarya!