On-lines in Kazakhstan

As we live in the highly developed technological civilization, in recent years the internet technology in Kazakhstan has developed a lot, and I think it is developing now, too.

And here are students' opinions about Onlines in Kazakhstan:

In Aliya's blog,she posted about titled “Kazakhstan Online”
In this post, she was unwilling that in spite of Kazakhstan is developing and trying to make best web-sites, there are few sites that made by Kazakhstan. So she hopes that having more Kazahstany own web-sites.

Anvar also mentioned about “Blogging in Kazakhstan”
He says that blogs are helpful to share opinions with other people safely:

"In Kazakhstan there is not much of freedom of the press or opinion, so the only way to share your ideas with other people is to run a weblog, because, government can’t close your weblog or find you. And for us, for young generation, for the future of Kazakhstan it is very important to communicate, even through Internet"

And added that "blogging is only one of great opportunities that Internet offers us"

Diana posted "Online Journalism in Kazakhstan", too.
She said that Although the Online Journalism in Kazakhstan is growing and Kazakhstani blogging is developing very actively, there is a small number of sites made by Kazakhstan.

"Mostly Astana, Almaty and Karaganda can really be called “all over internet using.” However
we rarely can see any publication in Kazakhstan that hasn’t its online version. For example, Panorama, Khabar, Liter and so on. As a rule the Kazakhstan newspapers and magazines simply put on their sites online versions of printed materials, and for more interactions add forums"

and she introduce two web-sites: first one is blog.kz which is the first blogging site in Kazakhstan & second one is CT- here, news are posted quicker than other media in Kazakhsatn, so many Kazahstany journalists are active in this site.

Finally, I think web-sites and blogs which were made through internet are really changed our society and it help us a lot in all aspects. They give everyone opportunity to do jounalism (like report some useful information) and to do reciprocal process. Kazakhstan, one of developing country, is not yet skillful in IT technology. But I hope the Kazakhstan online system will continue developing more & more!

Thanks for good information to Aliya, Anvar and Diana ;)

Mindy McAdams, who teaches university courses about online journalism in Florida, United States, wrote about our course blog"BAIJ1605 New Information Technologies", and also about our students' blogs in her blog "Teaching online journalism"
(click here to read her post about our course blog
"Journalism students blogging in Kazakhstan")

I think it is very interesting that we can know, give and receive information through blogs

and I realized that blogs are really helpful to communicate with each other globaly, too.

Also, there are a lot of jolly and useful information in Mindy McAdams's blog.

Top 10 reasons why nobody reads your blog

(this is a bonnus post for interest!!)

1. You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself.

2. There's nothing in it for them.

3. "Passion & Authority" are just buzzwords to you.

4. A secret cabal of A-Listers got together and decided that you should be excluded from the conversation.

5. You have nothing to say.

6. You're not The Assimilated Negro.

7. You didn't recently sell your company to AOL(America online) for $25 million.

8. The very fact that you're whining about traffic makes people not want to read your blog.

9. You've only been writing the damn thing for a week.

10. The Long Tail is very, very long.

Blogs are more than journalism

In some webpages there are several articles and blogs which handled

the relationship between Weblogs and Journalism.

Here is one of them:

"Blogs are more than journalism"

Blogs are written largely as a hobby, according to a new study, not for the sake of journalism. There are two opinions on this research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

First, the perception that blogs are used mainly for "journalism"- as defined by mainstream media- has been created by the mainstream media. Blogs are simply a newer form of online communication that began with newsgroups, bulletin boards and Web sites in earlier stages of the Internet's evolution. Old media organizations have described blogs as journalistic outlets after getting scooped badly by them in some high-profile stories, a myopic definition that excludes the full spectrum of the blogosphere.

Second, and more important, who cares about the definition of "journalism" anyway? News organizations are the ones hung up on this label, not bloggers. It's all about information, not some editor's definition of "news," and that means just about anything to anybody.

wirtten by Mike Yamamoto CNET news.com

What is Blog?

Nowadays, as the internet became popular,

many people use the internet and also they have their own weblogs.

Also, blogging is becoming one of the forms of online journalism.

Here is some basic information about weblogs:

Blog is the contraction universally used for weblog,

a type of website where we can easily record journal or diary.

Weblogs often provide commentary or news and information

on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal onlne diaries.

A typical weblog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most weblogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog),videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

The word blog can also be used as a verb,

meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The difference between other homepages and blogs is that,

in weblogs we can leave a comment on a post:
Comments are a way to provide discussion on weblog entries.

Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post's subject. Services like coComment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.

If you want youe own weblog, You can create using Blogger, Livejournal