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photoblog (or photolog, or phlog) is a form of
photo sharingPhoto sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
and
publishingElectronic publishing or ePublishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed paper scientific journals...
in the format of a
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
. It differs from a blog through the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text. Photoblogging (the action of posting photos to a photoblog) gained momentum in the early 2000s with the advent of the moblog and cameraphones.
There are three basic types of photoblogs. Photoblogs on individual domains, photoblogs on blogging services such as
BloggerBlogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
The service itself is located at , and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.- History :*On August 23,...
that were designed primarily for text content, and photoblogs on photo specific blogging services such as
FotologFotolog.com is a Web 2.0-based shared photoblog web site. With over 23 million registered users, it is one of the oldest and largest sites for sharing pictures through online photo diaries or photo blogs.-History:...
or
FlickrFlickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository...
.
The dynamic nature of blogs and photoblogs compared to static sites means that blogs require some form of
content management systemA content management system such as a document management system is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.CMSs are frequently used for storing,...
(CMS) rather than being built by hand.
A
photoblog (or photolog, or phlog) is a form of
photo sharingPhoto sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
and
publishingElectronic publishing or ePublishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed paper scientific journals...
in the format of a
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
. It differs from a blog through the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text. Photoblogging (the action of posting photos to a photoblog) gained momentum in the early 2000s with the advent of the moblog and cameraphones.
Construction
There are three basic types of photoblogs. Photoblogs on individual domains, photoblogs on blogging services such as
BloggerBlogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
The service itself is located at , and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.- History :*On August 23,...
that were designed primarily for text content, and photoblogs on photo specific blogging services such as
FotologFotolog.com is a Web 2.0-based shared photoblog web site. With over 23 million registered users, it is one of the oldest and largest sites for sharing pictures through online photo diaries or photo blogs.-History:...
or
FlickrFlickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository...
.
The dynamic nature of blogs and photoblogs compared to static sites means that blogs require some form of
content management systemA content management system such as a document management system is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.CMSs are frequently used for storing,...
(CMS) rather than being built by hand. These content management systems usually provide the photoblog's authors with a web service that allows the creation and management of posts and the uploading of images. The CMS delivers webpages based on the data entered by the photoblog author. Access to photoblogs is usually unrestricted and available to anyone with internet access and a
web browserA web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
.
Some existing blogging CMS have been modified by the use of
add-onAn add-on, which may overlap with the definition of a plug-in, may refer to:* an optional computer hardware or software component that, if installed, significantly supplements or enhances the functionality of the original unit, such as:...
s or plugins (and sometimes core code rewriting) to enable the transition from text blogging to photoblogging. As an example, a photoblog author might limit his blog to display a single entry per day (as opposed to several entries which is typical for text blogs) and he might put thumbnails in entry excerpts to provide archives that display images instead of text snippets. Over time, developers have begun to write purpose-built CMS just for creating photoblogs. Additionally many services specializing in hosting and displaying images, such as Flickr and Fotolog, have APIs that allow other blogging systems to display their images, giving the user many options as to the construction of a particular site.
The early days of photoblogging required some level of technical experience with setting up a webserver and installing or writing the
CMS-Colleges:* C. M. S. College, in Kottayam, Kerala, India* Chicago Medical School, in North Chicago, Illinois* City Montessori School, in Lucknow, India...
code for it (e.g.
PixelpostPixelpost is an open source photoblog application powered by PHP and MySQL, developed for publishing photos on a chronological base. Main features include multilingual capability, comment function, Exif support, spam filtering, categories, tagging and much more.There is a great range of templates...
or Picoplog). Many photobloggers still prefer this option of running their own server, as this gives them full control over the display and functionality of their photoblog. However, there are now a range of photoblog hosting services available which provide ready made photoblogs in which everything has already been setup. This has made photoblogging more accessible to the layman.
Convergence of mobile phones with digital cameras has opened a new era in photoblogging as authors may publish photos directly from phones to the Web.
See also
- Blog hosting service
- Blog software
- Content Management System
A content management system such as a document management system is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.CMSs are frequently used for storing,...
- Image hosting service
An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image.- How it works :...
- Photo sharing
Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...