Blogging: An Introduction
Viva Los Weblogs
Rob Wall
What is a blog?
- Abbreviation for web-log
- Frequently updated
- Personal Authorship
- Reverse chronological
- Frequently has
- Archives
- Comments
- Syndication
Why would I do this?
- Online travel journal for all family and friends
- Share thoughts and ideas with the world
- Political commentary
- Comment on other weblogs
How do I do this?
- There are many tools
- Write HTML by hand
- Dreamweaver or other page creation tools
- Dedicated blogging tool
- We will take a look at Blogger
- Owned by Google
- Free!
- Provides free hosting for a weblog
Tonight, we will:
- Create a weblog
- Choose a theme for the blog
- Add content
- Leave comments
- Put our favourite weblogs in an aggregator (maybe)