As a class, it sounds like we all appreciate blogs that:
- Use interesting and informative titles
- Break up huge chunks of text into smaller sections separated with white space
- Have a focus and a point and teach us something
- Incorporate direct links and images (and maybe even videos!)
- Get updated on a regular basis (like every day or a couple times a week at least!)
Your blog assigment for this week:
Find 3 new blogs that are all dedicated to one of your own personal passion (yoga? knitting? playing bass? ballet? ice-fishing? surfing?)
Your post is your entry into this subculture and community. How do you join in their conversation? What do you have to add to it? So this post is not about summarizing, but about contributing…as a new member of this blogging community. Remember, this is practice.
Read their blogrolls and keep playing until you find a voice, a presence, ideas that you like.
Link directly to them in your post.
Include one image (use the “link” button on the toolbar.)
Try joining flickr or photobucket–both free online photo services.
Music? Well, I’ll bet it’s possible but I have no idea how to do it. Do you?
Be sure to browse your classmates’ blogs later this week to see what is up and who is doing what. And post your comment!
