We Be Bloggin'
So what is a Blog anyway? Blogging is an easy way to collaborate, discuss, or share your thoughts with others
Here are a few definitions from other much wiser people on the ‘what is a blog?’ question:
‘A weblog is a hierarchy of
text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be
viewed in an HTML browser.’ Source:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmakesaweblogaweblog.html
‘A frequent, chronological
publication of personal thoughts and Web links.’ Source: http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
‘From “Web log.” A blog is
basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a
blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source:
http://www.computersprintersrepairshouston.com/glossary_of_terms.html
‘‘A blog is basically a
journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is
“blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically
updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical
background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost
always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured
most prominently.” Source:
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
‘A blog is a website in which
items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological
order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a
blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called
“blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or
“entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog
comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video,
audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation.
Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington , D.C.
How to choose a topic…
“Probably the best place to start thinking
about what your blog should be about is to consider what YOU are about.” –unknown
1.
Identify
your own interests, passions, and energy levels for topics—you must be prepared
to write about this topic for a long period of time. Blogs that are dry and passionless don’t tend
to grow--no one wants to read something that the author doesn’t really believe
in.
2.
While
your interests are important, keep in mind that you want to build a blog that
will be somewhat popular—you don’t need an enormous audience, but you do want
to generate some interest amongst a “good-sized” audience.
3.
Keep
in mind that popular topics change over time—check out current trends based on
the media and your friends. What are
they into?
Let’s
Get
Started…
1.
Set
up an account
2.
Do
you feel like creating a post right now?
If you feel elightened, write your FIRST POST! If not, you could…
3.
Customize
your layout, Add an Image, Add a Video, Add a Gadget (or 25,000 of them!), or
simply explore the blogging environment to gain some confidence in what you are
trying to accomplish and generate some ideas for your own blog.
Points to Remember:
⇨Your teacher will be reading your
posts! Keep it clean, folks!
⇨Be creative, but keep in mind that
you are trying to appeal to an audience and keep them interested! Just telling me you watch “Glee” last night
is not a thoughtful, interesting post!
⇨You do have a lot of freedom to
create posts that you choose, but you must follow the guidelines given in the
project outline and the posts on my blog as well.
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