Aravind’s Blog

Yahoo Photoes was the only place I’d used to share pics of me to my family & friends. Flickr seems to be a phenomenon. No wondr (oops) that Yahoo! acquird (is flickr going to change the way words are spelt?) them last February.

In addition to digital photo sharing, what makes them stand apart is the other web services that they offer. When I signed up, was surprised to see that Flickr had also created an email account for me. You can post photoes to blogs and add notes/comments to your photoes.

More about Flickr. Some snaps in Flickr which I found interesting. And, a competitor for Flickr.

Blogs, podcasts and now flickr photoes. Business Week in its current issue’s cover story had mentioned all three togethr. No doubt they have created a splash. What next?

With text blogs (is it already on its way of becoming a retronym?) & audio podcasts becoming so popular, can video be far behind? There’s a growing community of video bloggers who either add video to their text blogs or have their blog entries themselves as recorded videos.

According to the wikipedia article here, video blogs, vblogs, v-blogs or vogs became famous on the aftermath of the tsunami that struck Asia. With the news that Google will be going into hosting and searching videos, there’s even more interest shown on this topic than ever before.

If you’ve started using a computer only from the late 90s like me, this question must have risen to you at some point of time. Well, seems there was (is) a B drive available. Its meant for the good old 5-1/4 inch floppy disk. Google got me this answer.

You keep bouncing against these two words pretty often these days, right? With so much hype around, I’m betting on podcast becoming the word of this year (like blog became in 2004)

A podcast is similar to a blog post. While a blog is a text message, a podcast is a mp3 recording of someone’s voice. Podcasters just record their random thoughts & make these recordings (podcasts) available on the web. These podcasts can then be downloaded and listened to in iPods, iPod like devices or on PCs. Rapid evolvement of RSS feed technology & fast sales of iPods/mp3 players have made podcasts THE happening thing.

Two names come up when talking about the origins of the word podcasting. Dannie Gregoire, who coined the term podcasting & Adam Curry, who made it popular. I just listened to a podcast for the first time - that of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. Actually, its nothing got to do with coding, as he asserts here.

For more about podcasting, refer to this wikipedia article. And a nice FAQ on the topic here.

Let me start right away. Ever wondered who first uttered the word ‘blog’? Here’s the story.

Jorn Barger is credited with the first use of the word Web log or Weblog. That was in December 1997. Here’s an archived link to Barger’s Robot Wisdom page then.

It took 15 more months for Peter Merholz to shorten weblog to blog. The oldest page that webarchive could come up with is on April 28, 1999 and is available here

Some interesting links on the subject :

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

http://peterme.com/archives/00000205.html