4) What sets blogs them apart from previous web tools?

What I’m going to discuss for the rest of the lecture…examples of how the practices are driving the technology and the technology also shaping the practices.

What sets blogs apart from other web technologies:

1. Blogs have introduced the web post paradigm of the Web over the page paradigm.
2. While there are photoblogs, videoblogs, audioblogs, and an amalgamation of these, blogs are mostly textual – it is mainly through texts that bloggers “write themselves into blogs,” work out their sense of self, and contribute to communal conversations
3. Blogs afford dynamic, two way interaction – which shapes the blogosphere, the political and the social
4. Affords a “bloggy way of doing things” (Alex Halavais).

5) The "post" paradigm