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• 1980/90: Nos primórdios da internet, os "newsgroup"eram grupos de discussão, onde pessoas podiam postar mensagens sobre determinado assunto. Em 83/84 surgiu o primeiro grupo mantido por uma única pessoa, o mod.ber.
• 1994: surgem os primeiros blogs como conhecemos hoje, normalmente diários de sentimentos e acontecimentos de alguma pessoa. Não havia ferramenta de publicação. Os blogs eram mantidos como um site http normal.
• Final dos anos 90: surgem os primeiros blogs corporativos. No início, seções de "o que há de novo" de sites de empresas.
• 1997: surge o termo "web log"
• 1999: em uma brincadeira, um blogger escreveu "we blog", criando o termo "blog".
• 1998/1999: são criadas as primeiras ferramentas de publicação de blogs:
  • Open Diary
    LiveJournal
    blogger.com

A criação das ferramentas de publicação de blogs, tornou o que era antes 'coisa de nerd' em um sucesso. Não era mais preciso ser um gênio da informática para expressar seus pensamentos. Qualquer um podia estar na internet. Com isso, além dos diários pessoais, surgiram os blogs de jornalistas, artistas, empresas, atletas, etc. O blog permitiu a democratização da informação. Antigamente, você tinha o Estadão, o Jornal Nacional e a Barsa para se informar. Hoje, os blogs permitem que a informação venha com opinião (ou milhares delas).

Savvy young bloggers in Myanmar are breaking through the military juntas tight Internet controls to post photos and videos of swelling anti-government protests, experts said Tuesday.


The government blocks almost every website that carries news or information about the Southeast Asian country, and even bars access to web-based email.

But an army of young techies in Yangon works around the clock to circumvent the censors, posting pictures and videos on blogs almost as soon as the protests happen.

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One of the strangest legal cases in recent months erupted last Friday, but it's one that could have serious ramifications to anyone who posts material online, or even those who find their face in pictures making their way to the web. Get this...

A Texas teenager making a peace symbol with her fingers (or a V) was photographed by her youth counselor, who posted in on the photo-sharing service Flickr. The counselor chose the creative commons license, as many people do, which says that photos can be used in other materials provided they are attributed to the photographer. So Virgin Mobile Australia (the cell phone company) did just that: It grabbed her picture, cropped it, and turned it into an ad campaign.

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Accuweather is now offering RSS feeds. My only question is what took so long? There have been tools around for quite some time that can dynamically convertdatabases to RSS feeds. It seems Accuweather was just a little late to the party. Afterall Weather.com has had feeds for dare I say years? I know I should be applauding their efforts because there are of course other weather portals that do not provide RSS feeds, I just have a hard time understanding the difficulty. Weather is a natural for RSS.

Cut n' Paste JavaScript RSS Feed

The tool below will help you format a feed's display with the information you want to use on your web site. All you need to enter is the URL for the RSS source, and select the desired options below.

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SubmitForm

BlogBlip - One Click Blog Update Notifier

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ZoomClouds

With ZoomClouds you can put in a matter of minutes a tag cloud in your site, based on whichever RSS feed you like.

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TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?

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Autopinger - Automates Ping Blog and Podcast for Free
We will show you the actual ping response from the servers rather than success or failure as this will make more sense to you.

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OneNetworkDirect and Denise Purtzer layout why RSS is useful to affilates.