What’s a Blogroll? 13 April, 2007
Posted by danielfogg in Blogosphere, Crash Course, General.add a comment
A blogroll is a collection of links to other websites, typically blogs, which are usually found in the side collumn of a blog. The blogroll usually shows two things; the blogs or websites which the blogger (person writing the blog: me) will visit and read on a regular basis, secondly the blogroll represents a list of individuals and opinions that the blogger wants to associate him/herself with, due to their ideas, style, argument strength or popularity.
It’s important to note the difference between a blogroll and normal website links. The Register is a webiste which I read regularly, and share the opinions of, and hence in my blogroll, as is Bill Thompson’s blog. The BritishCouncil.org site is in my links because I work for the British Council, it is an organisation I am obviously affiliated with, and I would like visitors to the site to check it out. Unsurprisingly however, I don’t read the BritishCouncil.org website regularly, and hence it is not in my blogroll.
So that’s what a blogroll is!
For a more comprehensive example of a blogroll, check out the long list on Unspeak.net (down the bottom of the right hand collumn).
Web 2.0: What it looks like… 12 April, 2007
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There’s Change in the Air… 12 April, 2007
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For some time now the phrase ‘Web 2.0‘ has been floating around the British Council (hit wikipedia links for more info). But if you draw a blank whenever you hear that word airily thrown around, then don’t fret, as your lack of conceptual understanding won’t be matched by your inexperience of Web 2.0 technology. For instance; you might not know what social-networking is, but you will certianly have heard of or be a signed-up member of MySpace or FaceBook.
This blog will help to finally make the connection for you. We will lead discussion on the changing cyber-landscape and its affects on the British Council, offer links in all our posts to explain terms, direct you to jargon-lite articles on the subject of the evolving web, and act as a host site for postcasts, vodcasts, and webcasts (live versions of the other two) of both internal and external events…. and more! Tech-heads take note, there will be content of a narrower nature included on here too, and any comments you can make to help lead the debate for others are very welcome!
For the time being, keep checking the site as it will continue to grow over the coming weeks.
