Monday, June 7, 2010

About Blogs

Blog = web log: "an online, chronological collection of personal commentary and links"
or "A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links".
- Can be created anytime, anywhere by anyone as long as there is internet access, at no extra cost
- They are often topic or subject specific, but they entirely depend on the author
- Does not need HTML coding, makes it very user friendly
- Engages people in knowledge sharing and debate
- Blogosphere is rapidly changing as blogs can be created and deleted immediately without an ISP
- There are blog search engines to market the blogs, eg. iblog, blogged, etc.
- Users can "follow" so that when there is anything new, they get an update in their email
- Anybody can start a blog at any time,
- Pictures can be added
- One can have as many blogs as possible, easily managed in one blog
- Can add pictures, can also create a slide show from pictures in photo sharing program like picasa and photo bucket
- Often have spell checks
- Can add videos
- Can add labels for easy searching

Friday, June 4, 2010

BLOGS

Welcome to this session on blogs, you are welcome to post comments here