1. Wordpress
• Started in 2003, users, particularly aspiring
journalists, can create and manage blogs for
free.
• People can leave comments under blog posts
which encourages and forms friendships
through a common interest or belief.

2. Countries that use WordPress the
most
1. English 66%
2. Spanish 8.7%
3. Portuguese 6.5%
4. Indonesian 3.5%
5. Italian 2%
6. German 1.8%
7. French 1.4%
8. Russian 1.1%
9. Vietnamese 1.1%
10. Swedish 1.0%

3. Summary
The top 10 countries that use WordPress tend to
be developed European countries. Blogging has
spread across Europe and slowly across Asia, as
Vietnamese users now blog regularly.

4. Wordpress Page view Graph

5. Wordpress Amount Of Blog posts
Graph

6. Summary
It is clear that the buzz around blogging has
spread very far as the amount of page views
and blog posts have increased in recent years. In
2007 there were 1.5m blog posts which has
now risen to around 24m, around 16 times its
size. In 2007, Wordpress had around 2m page
views this has now soared to just over 3 billion
page views.

7. Has blogging become more influential
than broadcast media?

8. Yes..

9. More unbiased views than other broadcast
media platforms
Bloggers can
create unbiased
blogs to educate
an audience as
other broadcast
media often
publish biased
and narrow-
minded articles.

10. A widespread variety of blogs
Celebrity focused blog Horror blog

11. Japanese Culture Blog Equestrian blog

12. Easy access with Smartphones and
other devices
Blogger apps on devices such as
Blackberry, iPhone and iPad makes it so much
easier to interact with media as with the
touch of a button blog posts can be made and
submitted from wherever you are.
iPad Blogger app

13. No..

14. Broadcast media’s true facts
VS
Blog’s opinions
This online BBC
article states
facts about the
events

15. This blog
post
presents
opinions
of the
riots and
why it
occurred

16. Phone Interview with
Broadcasting Assistant for local
radio station
Here are the key questions and answers..

17. 1. How do you use social media in your duties?
Through Twitter and Facebook..
• to create awareness on upcoming events
• to give shout outs on air
• connect with listeners
• To find out latest news to update and share
views/debates with listeners

18. 2. Do you believe that blogs are more influential
than other broadcasting media?
No..
For me in my job blogs won’t create as much of
a buzz and circulation whereas on social
networking sites listeners can instantly
converse with each other.

19. 3. Do you believe our engagement with social
media is progressive?
Yes..
• With the help of smart phones social media is
within easy access
• Social media helps us build relationships with
people who share similar views/habits

20. Research resource checklist
for Blogs and Wikis..

22. HOW THE
INTERNET
BECAME POPULAR

23. Exploring Topics!

24. Ted Talks Video – Clay Shirky
‘How Social Media Can - Campaigning online to enable people to vote
Make History’ - "largest increase in expressive capability in human history"
- Media good at conversation is bad at creating groups and vice versa
- Media has support for groups and conversations at the same time
- Natively good at supporting these conversations
- Motive carnage for all other media
- Every medium is next door to another one
- Groups can communicate with each other
- When a new consumer joins this medium a new producer joins also
- Earthquake reported as it happened
- Spread all over the Internet due to social connections
- Twitter announced it before the news
- The citizens published it before anyone else
- Only way to filter the media is to shut down servers

25. The Dangers of the internet!
Mass Hysteria
• Although they don’t publicly release all the toys they have at their disposal, the folks
at Facebook are capable of thoroughly analyzing the massive volume of data their users
create every day.
• Using Facebook Lexicon, a tool that looks for occurrences of words and phrases on Walls
over time and displays them on a graph, they’ve released a couple of screenshots which show
how the discussion of the swine flu on Facebook went over time, and how it spread
geographically.
The figures
on of many
people
were
discussing
Swine Flue
http://mashable.com/2009/
04/29/facebook-swine-flu/

26. The Dangers of the internet!
Talking To Strangers
• In 2006, Cox Communications partnered with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited
Children and TV host and children’s advocate John Walsh.
• They conducted a national survey among 1,000 U.S. teenagers ages 13-17.
• Their report shows that nearly 7 out of 10 teens have received personal messages from
people they’ve never met.
• These teens were asked “When someone whose name you don’t recognize contacts you
online (email, IM, text, or chat messages), do you usually ignore their messages?”
• 6 of 10 said yes.
• 3 of 10 said they replied to the messages or chatted with them.
• 8% of teens surveyed said they had actually met with someone they had only talked to
online.
http://www.covenanteyes.com/2008/08/07/stranger-danger-how-
• This percentage was higher for 16- and 17-year-olds (14%) and lower for 13- to 15-year-olds
many-teens-are-talking-to-strangers-online/

27. The Dangers of the internet!
Talking To Strangers • More females than
males are harassed or
sent messages online
making them a target
for strangers.
• The highest
numbers were in
16-17 year olds
http://www.covenanteyes.com/2008/08/07/stranger-danger-how-
many-teens-are-talking-to-strangers-online/

28. When And why did it come about?
When?
• The Internet has precursors that date back to the 19th century, especially
the telegraph system, more than a century before the digital Internet became
widely used in the second half of the 1990s.
• It was begun by the US Dept of Defence in the early 1960s as a way to
communicate between different computers should a nuclear or other attack
take out the phone grid in the US.
• It was originally called the ARPANet, and had an IP address of 0.0.0.0. There
was no "name" for sites at that time.
• That did not come until the 1990s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

29. When And why did it come about?
Why?
• Early computers used the technology available at the time to allow communication
between the central processing unit and remote terminals.
• The reason as to why the internet came about is because of military communication.
• The Internet was not really invented but grew out of the U.S. military's search for a way
to defend against a large area attack.
• They connected various computers together across the United States using physical
media and it gradually developed into something called the ARPANET.
• As more and more computers connected to this network it grew and grew.
• Eventually the Internet was born on people's desires to be able to communicate with
each other over long distances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

30. Society without the internet?
We Have Become Too Reliant
• People are spending more and more time on the internet nowadays.
• However have we become too reliant on the internet?
• E.g. The majority of those in education no longer use librarie4s as a source of information.
• Instead they just search things online.
• Is the value of literature decreasing?
• Children are spending too much time cooped up inside on their computers or laptops.
• This is unhealthy as they are not only not getting enough exercise but also not exploring
the real world and being productive.

31. How the internet has evolved!
The Development of The Internet
• In 1976, Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe developed the Ethernet.
• The Ethernet essentially allowed the coaxial cable to move data faster than
normal.
• This was the first step to developing the LAN networks.
• In addition, it was the first step to making the Internet faster.
• 1983 marks the time when every single computer that was connected to the
Internet had no choice but to use the TCP/IP protocol.
• Because of this, 1983 was the year when the use NCP protocol ended.
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-the-Internet-Has-
Evolved-Over-Time/1426199

32. How the internet has evolved!
The Development of The Internet
• The National Science Foundation began working on the new T1 lines in the 1980s.
• By the time they were finished in 1988, traffic began to increase. Because of this increase
in traffic, the NSF began working on a second update.
• In 1990 the non-profit organisation ANS formulated the idea for a T3 line.
• It was a 45mpbs line and by 1991, all of the NSF websites were using this new network.
• In addition, ILEC created ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.
• This type of technology allowed its users to surf the web.
• ADSL later became DSL.
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-the-Internet-Has-
Evolved-Over-Time/1426199

33. How the internet has evolved!
The Development of The Internet
• In 1995, the NSF stopped allowing free direct access to the NSF backbone.
• This period marks the time when people began to pay for web hosting. NSF allowed four
companies to have this direct access.
• These four companies consequently sold access to the server for fifty dollars a year.
• This cost did not include .gov and .edu domains.
Broadband was introduced in 2000 as a better alternative to dial-up. The beginning of
broadband marked the beginning of the Internet, as we know it today.
• Because of Broadband, users are able to download music and videos. The Internet
became at least ten times faster than dial-up.
• It is also hard to forget the creation of 802.11b, more commonly known as Wi-Fi.
• Wireless Internet allowed the use of handheld devices and the ability to take the Internet
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-the-Internet-Has-
anywhere that you are. Evolved-Over-Time/1426199

34. Revolutionised how we communicate
• There are now much fast and cheaper ways to communicate thanks to the
internet.
• Due to email or messages via social networking sites, communicating with
others has never been easier.
• Video calls via ‘Skype’ are now also possible thanks to the internet.
• We live in a modern society where two people from opposite ends of the world
are able to speak with one another for free.
• However is can also be argued that this has made people much more lazy.