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With the ever rising popularity of blogging, different groups have expressed diverse opinions about how blogging has blurred the line separating it from giving credible news to society. There have been questions raised as to its legality, especially about copyright, because bloggers would tend to breach the limitations of laws pertaining to it.

Even minority languages have also been influenced by blogs. Through blogging, minority language publishing has found its way which would otherwise has not been possible because of lack of economic possibility. Being inexpensive, different groups of people have been brought together and closer to one another by the rising popularity of blogging.

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The consequences of blogging are sometimes unforeseen. Day in and day out, blogging is making up a large portion of web traffic. Almost all groups of people from different walks of life in one way or another participate in this popular medium of expressing one’s self.

Blogging has stirred some legal liabilities. For one, it is the issue that bloggers release proprietary or confidential information. Another issue is about defamation. Also, employees sometimes exceed the limits as they already involve aspects of their employment or their personal lives. These are the areas where the consequences of blogging become the focus of legal groups.

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Blogging is continuously gaining attractiveness and blog popularity can be measured in two ways: through citations and through affiliation. It was found in researches that permalinks require a shorter time to gain popularity than blogrolls. Furthermore, they give a better picture of popularity and authority. It is because they signify that visitors are actually reading the content of the blog and find it important.

The blogdex project by the MIT Media Lab was the first instantiation of a memetracker. Technorati measures blog popularity by giving rankings to blogs based on the number of incoming links while Alexa Internet does the same based on the web hits of Alexa Toolbar users.

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There are several recorded cases pertaining to blogging and defamation. In one case the court stood that anonymous bloggers need to be unmasked by setting stringent standards. There was a case of defamatory posting filed in Malaysia which forced the Malaysian government to propose to “register” all bloggers in the country. In Britain, a college lecturer was sued and fined £10,000 in damage and £7,000 costs. In the U.S., a blogger was sued for defamation and publication of trade secrets. With these records, there is now a question about who is going to be liable for comments posted on blogs when the issue about blogging and defamation is at hand.

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Blog types differ in how contents are delivered or written. One group of blogs is based on media type. A vlog is a blog made up of videos; a linkblog is one made up of links; a sketchblog is one made up of portfolios or sketches; a photoblog is one made up of photos. Tumbleblogs are those blogs with shorter posts and using mixed media. Phlog is a rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol. There is a blog type that is written by a mobile device such as a mobile phone or a PDA, called a moblog.

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In March 2007, web entrepreneurs Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher founded Amatomu, a blog search engine and article aggregator that focuses on blogs published in South Africa.

As a new site it is still in its testing phase. Only a select group of users was into it. However, it was unexpectedly swarmed in by bloggers when a member of the select group leaked information about the search engine’s existence.

The site can track trends and monitor keywords. It also ranks bloggers and provides statistics and graphs for their blogs. Then, these are organized by Amatomu bases on topic and lists of keywords.

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