J1b. ABOUT NEWSLOGS
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Newslogs are topical, on-line journals collecting references to articles, essays, white papers and primary materials located across the web.
What is important is that a newslog is a "log". Content is routinely and frequently updated. Entries are displayed in a common and predictable format. |
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As entries accrue over time, the site's author-editor develops a personal and/or expert knowledge base to be shared with friends and the web at large.
Newslogs have been among the hot phenomena in personal and orginizational web sites in the past few years for the simple reason that the newslog format provides surfers with an incentive to make return and repeated visits to a site in pursuit of "appointment" and/or "destination" content.
Newslogs are inherently more interesting than a static site no matter how cleverly arranged or animation filled.
On the other hand, newslogs can be a good deal more labor intensive than a static site, pariticularly if maintained by hand and/or conventional <html> editors
With traditional methods, providing coherent access to archive materials presents additional complexity and tedium.
SophiaKnows provides a simple, intuitive toolset automating the more burdensome tasks in this process as well a friendly, powerful interface for designing and formatting the display of the log contents.
SK2.0 NEWSLOG TEMPLATES
Newslog Elements
Newslogs are most typically layed out like a newspaper column (wich they most closely resemble). The SK2.0 standard newslog template includes the following preset fields:
1. Title Sample Headline 2. Date Mar 19 2003 3. Description This entry is just sample text that demonstrates the formatting of the item body or description element. 4. Source Full Item >
The standard fields and contents are briefly described below. For more details (including legal content select here):
1. Title: This field holds the title or headline for each item in your newslog.
2. Description: This field holds the main content for each item. In the case of a newslog, this field will hold the body of each entry. In the case of a news log or accumulator this field will hold a description or summary of the remote page or article.
3. Date: This field holds the date on which the item was first posted.
4. Source: This field holds the permanent link or address for the remote article or page described in the main body of the item.
When configuring their SK2.0 site, users can choose to include or omit any of the standard fields, however a weblog must contain at least two (2) of the following three (3) elements : Title, Date or Description.
Newslog Formatting
When configuring their SK2.0 newslog, users can apply discrete formmatting (font face, size, color and style) to each element in their log.
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In addition users can elect to ommit or surpress display of any element in their newslog:
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User can also select and apply different backgrounds, page link colors and more.
To learn more about log element format options select here.
To create a demonstration SK2.0 Newslog select here.