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Photoblogs
 

A photoblog is a form of a blog, differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on the author's photographs rather than text.

Origin

Photoblog is a compound of the words "photo" and "blog."

The use of personal image/photograph galleries have been around for many years, but it was with the emergence of blogging, and the systems that enabled blogging, that people found themselves able to publish images to their website in a chronological order - thus adding a fresh and dynamic approach, as opposed to the static gallery.

Structure

Like more common text-based blogs, photoblogs usually have one author, but some have two or many more authors.

Like text-based blogs, entries are usually posted to the photoblog by the author on a regular basis. The resulting posts are usually time stamped and listed in chronological order with the most recent photo (or photos) shown first and on the main page of the photoblog. Older entries are accessed via links that allow a visitor to navigate forward and back, chronologically through a photoblog's images.

Typically, some kind archive is available, often divided by month or category. Most photoblogs also allow visitors to leave comments that are associated with a particular entry. These comments allow a photoblog to establish a community of visitors. Comments usually link back to the commenter's site. This further permits the creation of a loose community with authors and visitors able to access, share and communicate through each others sites.

Construction

The dynamic nature of blogs and photoblogs compared to static sites means that blogs require some form of content management system (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 browser.

Some exisiting blogging CMS have been modified by the use of add-ons/plugins (and sometimes core code rewriting) to enable the transistion from normal blogging to photoblogging. Over time, developers have begun to write purpose-built CMS just for creating photoblogs.

The early days of photoblogging required some level of technical experience with setting up a webserver and installing or writing the CMS code for it (e.g. Pixelpost). 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 (e.g. Shutterchance, My-Expressions). This has made photoblogging more accessible to the layman.

See also

Photoblogging Software

Photoblog hosting service
These are sites hostings thousands of photoblogs, all sharing a similar format. Many of them are Spanish or Portuguese copies of Fotolog.com.

Core Purpose

Extensible blogging CMS

External links

Photography | Internet terminology | Neologisms

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