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  2. PDF - Wikipedia

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    A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [23]

  3. Sumatra PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye. Bloat and startup time is a major drawback to Adobe Reader, so we fled to the faster arms of Foxit Reader long ago. However, at 850KB, Sumatra is way slimmer than FoxIt. ^ Anders Ingeman Rasmussen (2008).

  4. Blog - Wikipedia

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    DNS. Email. v. t. e. A blog (a truncation of " weblog ") [1] is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were often the work of a single ...

  5. Medium (website) - Wikipedia

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    Medium is an American online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation. [2] The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, [3] and is regularly regarded as a blog host.

  6. Sociological Images - Wikipedia

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    Launched. 2007. Sociological Images is a blog that offers image-based sociological commentary and is one of the most widely read social science blogs. [1] Updated daily, it covers a wide range of social phenomena. The aim of the blog is to encourage readers to develop a "sociological imagination" and to learn to see how social institutions ...

  7. Blogger (service) - Wikipedia

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    Optional, Free. Launched. August 23, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-08-23) [1] Current status. Active. Written in. Java. Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003.

  8. History of blogging - Wikipedia

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    History of blogging. While the term "blog" was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before "blogging" became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists [1][2] and Bulletin ...

  9. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. . Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is availa