The difference between a blog and a hacker.
Mr. Fang Xingdong, the founder of the word blog, has a saying about the difference between blog and hacker: ① Blog, like hacker, is also a type of "knowledge worker" (note: the hacker here refers to a productive rather than destructive hacker like a member of the Linux community). The strength of a hacker comes not so much from his own intelligence as a "self-employed knowledge worker" as from an organizational mechanism. And this organizational mechanism-openness, self-organization, self-optimization, is precisely guaranteed by the full enjoyment of knowledge-the opening of source code. In this sense, hackers refer to a brand-new way of knowledge production and dissemination rather than people. Different from hackers, blog refers to a network communication mode from the beginning-the fourth network communication mode after email, BBS and IM (instant messaging), and a media form-self-media (or "personal media"). In other words, literally, a blog refers to a group of people first, then someone, then "we" and then "me"-through a multi-link, "prelude-introduction" blog, "I" becomes "we" and more people are introduced to "us". Knowledge * * * and body "is their * * * and blood. In the world of blogs and hackers, to borrow a poem from Dunn, "No one is an island", everyone is a part of the same earth. A single blog is not a self-sufficient point, but a node on the knowledge network. Relatively speaking, blogs show the essence of "nodes" more clearly than hackers. ② Compared with hackers, the knowledge threshold of blogs is much lower. Anyone can quickly grow into a blog in a few minutes-as long as he is interested. The text of a blog provides a lot of information, but the blogger himself is not necessarily the author (copyright owner), and all he may do is provide some links. In addition, blog readers can also add their own links. Therefore, unlike traditional media, blogs often attract readers' attention to themselves without existing or potential links (which may be added by others). Most importantly, blogs make readers gradually become authors by guiding them to themselves. From consumers to providers of knowledge and information.
3. The background and history of the blog.
Understand the difference between blog and hacker, and understand that the core of blog is actually the reproduction of hypertext language. This idea can even be traced back to Talmud, the code of ancient Jews. This is a kind of code that looks a bit strange. On the surface, it consists of two parts: the text and the notes of later generations, but these two parts have the same legal effect, which are the text and the notes. In addition, annotations are multi-layered, including annotations to annotations, annotations to annotations ... The characteristics of Talmud are: it is an open text rather than a "read-only text"; The original creator (legislator) and the re-creator (legal interpreter) are only in order, and there is no authoritative difference, so there is no strict difference between the author and the reader. It is precisely because all readers of the Talmud (that is, all Jewish residents) participated in the creation (that is, revision and improvement) of this work that such a law has been continuously optimized and upgraded in the long river of time.
But it is a bit ridiculous to say that the author of Talmud was the first blog based on these. After all, I know what a "spider web" is, hehe. However, its concept is the concept of blog. Yes Who is the earliest blog on the real Internet? There is no way to prove it now. However, in 2000, A Jian of Taiwan Province Province published "Weblog: The Rise of a New Content Form", which was an earlier article introducing blogs systematically. The article was published on June 5438+1October 7, 2000. Not long after, Sina, the first portal in China, also reported the blog phenomenon in the industry news of Sina Technology, titled "Live Website and Log Website Popular in the United States", and the author signed it "Shao Yan". It can be seen that the blog phenomenon was of great concern at that time. The "9. 1 1" incident that shocked the world at that time must be fresh in everyone's memory. It is not only a great tragedy in the history of human society, but also directly promotes the popularization and development of blog, making it formally enter the field of vision of ordinary people. Within a few hours after the "9. 1 1" incident, almost all major traditional media websites were almost paralyzed due to excessive visits, including heavyweight media websites such as CNN, The New York Times and BBC, and many people thought that the coverage of more traditional TV media was not thorough and comprehensive. In fact, the internet did not die out under this sudden "blow", but was reborn in other ways or elsewhere. This is a blog. One of the most famous blog sites is Dave Winers's script news site (. com
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5. Some proverbs and metaphors about blogs
I did a search, and there are the following statements and metaphors about blogs on the Internet, which are helpful for everyone to understand blogs:
Blog is the fourth way of network communication after e-mail, BBS and ICQ.
Blog is a personal "reader's digest" in the Internet age.
-Blogs are online diaries with hyperlinks as weapons.
-Blog is Magellan in the information age.
Blog represents a new way of life and work as well as a new way of learning. Through the blog, let yourself learn a lot and let others learn more.
-Blog stands for "News Media Version 3.0": old media → new media → self-media.
In a word, blog is a new Internet application that is developing and evolving rapidly. In market terms, blog is defined as a publishing method that expresses personal thoughts and network links, and the contents are arranged in chronological order and constantly updated. EvanWilliams, the founder of Pyra, thinks that the concept of blog is mainly embodied in three aspects: frequency, conciseness and personality. Peggy? Noonan's explanation is that blog is a speech website that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This website provides free speech in its frank, wild, unreserved, thoughtful and strange way. Other statements include: Blog is a "quick and easy-to-use knowledge management system" (Dylan Tweeny), Blog is a new type of "collaborative media", Blog is an uninterrupted online journey, a personal online publication (community), an information radar system in the network, a manual search engine, an expert filter and an expert filter.
It's easy to become a blog. Anyone can grow into a blog in a few minutes if you want.