Other Media and New Technology Blogs:-

Ofcourse FIRST, there is our blog.. Which you should ALL keep in mind: "http://mayez-mediaandnewtechnologiesblog.blogspot.com/ (Mayez and Ghyna)". Then we have other important blogs, please make a visit to all if you can:-

http://khatibtechno.blogspot.com/ (Doriss & Sabah)http://medianewtechnologies.blogspot.com/ (Tala and Rawan)
www.my-bots.blogspot.com (Ronda & Robert)
www.ro-blogtechnos.blogspot.com (Mayssa & Farah)
www.friendlytechat.blogspot.com (Fady & Laure)
www.humanvsnewtechnologies.blogspot.com (Helen & Marny )
http://nonnatech.blogspot.com (Nabiha & Nour)
http://www.jccooltech.blogspot.com/ (Crystal and Jana)
www.patch1hotmailcom.blogspot.com (Fahed and Hani)
http://www.dando0n.blogspot.com/ (Marwan and Dana)

Introduction: How to make a Blog?

Now, thanks to Blogger.com, we can easily create blogs in 3 simple steps. Which are:-

1. Create an account
2. Name blog
3. Choose template

And then BOOM! There you go.. You created yourself a personal online diary.. or in other words, a 'blog'.

To start, click hear --> CREATE A BLOG NOW!

Introduction: What is a 'Blog'

What's a blog?

"A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
And we're pretty sure the whole deal is just getting started."

http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

In my blog, i chose to talk about the topic 'blog' for many specific reasons:-
First, our teacher came up with a new idea to give a virtual class through blog, where we can keep in touch, communicate and interact with each others, and to me, it was a new experience. Second, it’s gonna be an interesting and useful topic to help the whole class improving their blogs and avoiding facing any problem.Third, because it is a new technology that is also related to media. Just as our teacher wanted.

How can we define blog?

Blog:-

1. Noun: A shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order.
   
2. Verb: read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
   

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

How is blog useful?

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Blog provides explanations and information for a certain topic; moreover, you can use it as a personal blog, where u can write day-to-day experiences, social interpretations, criticisms, poems, political thoughts and other things that might be found in a traditional paper diary or journal. Usually, the blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are mostly textual, although some focus on art (artlog) specially visual arts, including media such as painting, printmaking.. or photoblog which is a form of photo sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text, or videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati (http://www.Technorati.com) was tracking more than 112 million blogs!

Hope that these information could help, or at least as a begining, in making you understand blog, how to use it, and how 2 develope it.

Why Blu-ray?

In the middle of June 2006, the first blu-ray discs were born, and released on the 2oth of June, 2006. As we know, Blu-ray is the future (or as i see it coming), but the question is why blu-ray? isn't there any one that tried to top the new blue laser technology?

Toshiba, a famous Japanese company, that for sure everybody heard about because of their great reputation in making laptops and other computer-related devices, created a new disk storage technology, the Hd Dvds (High-Definition Digital Versatile Disc). 'HD DVD is derived from the same underlying technologies as DVD. Since all variants except the 3x DVD employed a blue laser with a shorter wavelength, it can store about 3¼ times as much data per layer as its predecessor (maximum capacity: 15 GB per layer instead of 4.7 GB per layer).' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD#Disc_structure

So? Which is better? Which 1 are we going to use in the future?

On Tuesday, February 19, 2008, Toshiba announced that it was to drop its format in the HD DVD 'war' with Sony, pioneer and other participated companies. The "High definition optical disc format war". In January, 2008, the main company supporting HD DVD — announced it would no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, which holded the blu-ray as victorious.

Features: Blu-ray Vs. Hd Dvds:-

Blu-ray:-

• Encoding------------------ MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), and VC-1
• Media type---------------- High-density optical disc
• Capacity ------------------ 25 GB (single layer)50 GB (dual layer)
• Read/Write mechanism --- 405 nm laser, 1x@36 Mbit/s & 2x@72 Mbit/s & 4x@144
• Mbit/s & 6x@216 Mbit/s & 12x@432 Mbit/s
• Usage --------------------- Data storage,High-definition videoand PlayStation 3 games

Hd Dvds:-

• Encoding------------------ VC-1, H.264, and MPEG-2
• Media type---------------- High-density optical disc
• Capacity ------------------ 15 GB (single layer), 30 GB (dual layer)
• Read/Write mechanism --- 1x@36 Mbit/s & 2x@72 Mbit/s
• Usage --------------------- Data storage, including high-definition video