Understanding Blogs Quiz

What distinguishes blogs from other static websites?

What was the term 'weblog' coined by Jorn Barger?

Who coined the short form 'blog' by breaking the word weblog into 'we blog'?

What was another form of digital communities before blogging became popular?

What does microblogging feature?

What is the primary characteristic of a blog?

In the 2010s, what type of blogs emerged?

What contributed to the rise of blogs in the late 1990s?

What effect did Twitter and microblogging systems have on blogs?

What was required to publish content on the web before the late 1990s?

True or false: Blogs were often the work of a single individual until 2009?

True or false: Multi-author blogs (MABs) emerged in the 2010s?

True or false: The majority of early web users were hackers and computer enthusiasts?

True or false: The rise of blogs coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated posting content by non-technical users?

Bloggers do not build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.

True or false: Microblogging systems like Twitter helped integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media?

Many blogs do not allow comments from their readers.

Microblogging is a type of blogging that features long-form posts.

The term 'weblog' was coined by Evan Williams.

'Blog' and 'blogging' are now used exclusively for content creation and sharing on social media.