Blogprogs
I’ll add YouTube films on WordPress and Blogger. Just to give you an introduction on how fairly easy it is to set up a blog. But feel free to use any blogprog you like best.
WordPress tutorial
Blogger tutorial
Our own blog
Let’s just start our own blog. Why?
- Because it’s fun!
- You’ll write on a regular basis.
- I’ll add the link to your blog to this blog.
- And meanwhile you can fit in all excersizes into your own copy.
There are several blogprograms. I use WordPress. But you can also use blogger. Or countless others like Pivot, Typepad, Livejournal, MSN Spaces or Blogspot.
Homework
This week excersize is just to start up your own blog. It takes about half an hour. A site without content isn’t worth visiting. So keep this to yourself, until there are at least 5 postings on your very own blog. See if you get the hang of it. Even if it is just dummy-text, just see if you can get your wordings published on line.
If you set up your blog, don’t forget to place the url at the homework section. 
What’s what?
On a meeting I regularly ran in to people who have heard of blogging. But don’t know exactly what it is. Let me tell you, you already visited at least one (mine), and my guess is several blogs. A blog is nothing more and nothing less than a particular form of a site.
Facts
- A blog is in chronological order. The most recent text is the above one.
- You can respond to the texts.
- Most of the times there is a RSS feed that you can subscribe to (I’ll explain RSS in a later stage)
- The author is not a journalist. It is a person, who likes to share his opinion on the subject.
- A blog can be about litteraly anything that the author has a personal interest in.
Definitions
Above you’ve read the characteristics of a blog. The separate texts are called posts of postings. But a lot of time you’ll see that the posting itself is also called a blog. The author of the postings is a blogger.
That’s basically all there is to it.
