1.0 INTRODUCTION – AN OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION TO A BLOG: It is
defined as a social software and a tool which has to meet at
least two of the followingconditions: It allows people to
communicate, collaborate and build a community online.It can be
syndicated, shared, reused or remixed It allows people to easily
learn from and capitalize on the behaviour or knowledge of
others Weblogs are defined as “ frequently modified web pages in
which dated entries are listed inreverse chronological sequence”
(Herring, Scheidt, Bonus et al., 2004, p. 1). A weblog
typicallyconsists of posts that are usually time-stamped, vary
in length and frequency of updates, and areorganised in reverse
chronology so that readers always see the most recent post first
(Bausch etal., 2002; Blood, 2002; Mortensen & Walker, 2002;
Trammel & Gasser, 2004).Since 1999, weblogs have proliferated
following the development of user-friendly weblogpublishing
services such as Live Journal, Blogger.com and Pitas. Weblogs
are still growing, andgrowing even