Blogs, Bloggers, Blogging....

Starting a Blog

• Source: Stone, Blogging, Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2003)
• Clinton administration – a site with dated entries—personal postings and annotated links to news and interesting sites
• Bush(2) administration: New developments=tons of new acronyms
• Pyra Labs, developing groupware with Blogger as a piece--in other words, CMS / database driven website
• Blogger -- http://www.blogger.com. Now owned by Google and free service
• Provides server, templates, interface, and growing set of tools.
• Open an account, start a new blog, select a template (e.g., Minima)
• We created this blog at the November meeting: http://pacswd.blogspot.com/

Maintaining a Blog

• Update directly on Blogger
• Add photos
• Use Blogger for Word
• Blog other sites: BlogThis--FF, Google toolbar--IE
• Modify template -- CSS Workshop
• Load onto own server
• Standalone editors: Moveable Type, WordPress, Live Journal
• In the Macintosh world, Apple's iLife software has received good reviews for its blog creation capabilities.
• Watch for "comment spam" see Paper decides to close blog, citing vitriol.

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