CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Blog
Blog is shortness from the word web log which was first introduced by John Barger in 17 December 1997. Around April 1999, Peter Merholz made the word
web log shorter into blog, which was slippery of
2. Business Blog: Blogs for professionals who share their expertise with their customers.
3. Schools Blog: Teachers and students collaborate on classroom projects through blogs.
4. Non-profits Blog: Blogs about foundations, charities, and human rights groups raise awareness and money for their causes.
5. Politics Blog: Members of parliament, political parties, government agencies, and activists using blogs to connect with their constituencies.
6. Private Blog: Some people make their blogs private to share photos and information within families, companies, or schools.
7. Sports Blog: Blog is used to express and share passion for various sports. 8. How-to, tips and reviews Blog: There are lots of blogs that share tips and
reviews about cooking, games, music, books, movies, and so on. Based on the types of blog above, blogs which usually popular among
students are: Personal Blog and Schools Blog. In some countries, blog is commonly used in the academic such as in schools and universities, where the
teachers record the teaching and learning processes and then they upload the record to their blogs Ariyanto, 2009:2. This is very useful for the students who
are less-active in classes so that they can follow the blogs or journals of their teachers to catch the lessons up. Unfortunately, this method is barely used in
Indonesia, because some of the teachers themselves don
In fact that writing blogs doesnt need to be formal, people may write it in their own words. People are free to express their views on their blogs. Here
students, as bloggers, can write article on any topic according to their choices. They can write any number of words or paragraphs. They write on their blogs
about something that just happened to get attention and comments from other people who read their blogs.
Blogs can also be categorized as Text blog, Photo Blog, Video Blog, and Podcast Blog according to its vizualization contain. As stated by Christian
Neukirchens Anarchaia in a blog post on April 12, 2005 on his Tumblr,
2.2 Habit