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What is a blog?
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(Matthew G.)    (Click to watch video!)          (Click here for sound only.)

  A blog is a... It's sort of like an online diary, where people can post their thoughts, their ideas, their favorite music, they can link to their favorite things on the web, and they can also be a hub for a community.
  A blog is a simple thing that can be turned into many things. I think... It seems to me that, uh, when blogs are successful at creating a community, that's the number one benefit, where you can share knowledge, you can build upon knowledge, uh, and uh, just to know there are other people out there that share your interests. Or you, learn new things.
  Well, uh, I think they are a good start. Blogs vary in terms of their quality and maybe their reliability, but um, I think it's great that they're out there. It adds to the global marketplace of information and um, provides an opportunity for uh, smaller entities, sma... independent people to have a voice. Sometimes it's with the major media and sometimes it's against it. I think it's a valuable resource.



(Howard)   (Click to watch video!)              (Cilck here for sound only.)

  Blogs are publications on the internet that enable many people to publish their words, in text, or in spoken word, or videos, or, or paintings, or music.
  Whatever form you want to show the world, you can use a blog to show the world and you can do it every day.
  It's not static. It changes. When you have a new creation, a new thought, you add that to your blog and your readers can see it wherever they are in the world.




Some cool blogs:
http://syk-haliburton.blogspot.com/   (Momoyama Kokusai student's  'online diary' type blog from Canada)

http://kanatani-takafumi-japan.blogspot.com/  (School by school: 'Hub' type blogs)
http://sbs-shihomi.blogspot.com

http://readingwordskansai.blogspot.com/  (Reading Words: An 'Interests' type blog.)

http://tokyoprogressive.org/  (Tokyo Progressive: An 'Independent Media' type blog.)

Last year's blogs for Canada.
http://www.walshsensei.org/BlogList2006.html


This year's blogs for Canada ( YOURS! )
http://kokusaicourseblogs.blogspot.com/