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?