Post on 13-May-2015
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Blog?Blog?Blog?Blog?
What’s a blog?What’s a blog?
Blog:A blog is an online journal or diary.
It is easily updated and the readers can usually leave comments.
The word blog is short for Weblog.
Other Terms to know• Blogger
– Someone who blogs
• Post– The act of making an entry on a blog,
or the entry itself. (ie: I just posted to my blog, or Did you read the most recent post.)
Why would I want to read a blog?
How do I find blogs?
Google search for knitting blogs
Blogs list other blogs
How do I read blogs?• You can go the the blog’s website
every day or so to see if it has been updated
• You can use an RSS Reader
Wait! What’s an RSS Reader?
• RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
• It checks to see if your blogs have been updated so you don’t have to
• It’s like having a subscription to a magazine rather than buying it from a store every month
Tell me more• RSS readers can be downloaded
and installed on your computer – good if you only use one computer
• RSS readers can be web based – good if you use more than one computer or if you don’t want to install software
How do they work?
Reading a Post
How do I subscribe?
Ok, I’d like to start my own blog
Places to blog• Blogger• Word Press
• Other places-see the Wikipedia Article on Blog software
Basic Parts of a BlogTitle
Post
More basic partsSearch
Blogroll—A list of related blogs
And more basic partsSubscribe
Labels of post, so you can see what other posts on a certain topic have
been written
Post archive, usually by date
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Questions?