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  3. Within a month of moving to London from Los Angeles in September 2002, Jacob Sager Weinstein started sending long e-mails to fam

Within a month of moving to London from Los Angeles in September 2002, Jacob Sager Weinstein started sending long e-mails to fam

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问题     Within a month of moving to London from Los Angeles in September 2002, Jacob Sager Weinstein started sending long e-mails to family and friends under the name "Jacob’s London Diary".
    "I had a few goals", Weinstein said recently. "Keeping in touch with family and friends was a major one. But I also wanted to preserve the memories of our experiences in this new country and maintain my writing muscles".
    Then out of nowhere, Weinstein said, he began getting requests to be added to the distribution list from people he did not know—usually because someone had forwarded one of his entries.
    The requests made him start thinking about broadening his audience. So in February 2004 he created his own blog at www.yankeefog.com. "I usually describe it as the adventures of a comedy writer in London", he said. Weinstein said the site attracted about 100 unique visitors a day.
    Short for Web logs, blogs are little more than Web pages with postings that can be read by anyone using the Internet. Blogs generally can be updated easily, even by people with no knowledge of HTML coding.
    Blogs also tend to be written in a more conversational tone than other Web sites and generally allow readers to post their own comments on the site.
    When blogging began in the early 1990s, they were typically little more than the author’s personal diary. But today blogs can and often do include photos and video, and the subjects range from politics to religion, business to parenting.
    "In general I think blogging zeroes in on the human desire to be heard, to be seen and to be popular", said Shay Harting, chief executive of OnfugeO, a California company that helps create video blogs, which are based on uploads of personal videos to Web sites.
    "It feeds the ego for many people", Harting said.
    Weinstein said that even a complete Internet novice could create a blog by using a site like www.blogger.com, where a person can make a few choices from a manu and, voila, a free blog is created.
    He said that another popular free blogging site can be found at www.livejournal.com.
    He said such sites generally put ads on the blogs that they help create, which is how they make money.
    Weinstein said that if an author wanted a bit more control over a blog, it would take a little more know-how and money—but not much.
    "I just downloaded software called Moveable Type, which is free for noncommercial use", he said. "I then uploaded it to some computer space that I rent for about $10 a month from a company called Dreamhost.com, followed the instructions that come with Moveable Type to get it running, paid $7 to register the yankeefog, com name, and I was off".
    "I didn’t need to do any actual programming, but I did need to be at least a little comfortable with uploading and downloading files", he said.
选项 A、casual.
B、formal.
C、friendly.
D、humorous.
答案A
解析 博客的写作风格往往比其他网站更加口语化。
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