classOutline

• Preview
• Introductions
• Introduction to weblogs
• Write your first weblog post
• Learn to read with a news aggregator.
• Introductions
• Your name
• What brings you here
• Familiarity with weblogs
• Introduction to weblogs
• Simple definition
• A frequently updated Web site consisting of posts that are listed in reverse chronological order.
• A few examples
• Personal history, personal history
• Links, with and without commentary
• Company history: then, then, now, now
• Topical: politics, gizmos, regional, regional, legal, legal, educational
• Data of various kinds: text and photos, photos, products, music listened to
• A question, now that you've seen a few
• What makes a weblog different from a regular Web page?
• Fleshing out a bit.
• Finding
• Hyperlinks
• Blogrolls
• Recency index (talk about the XML button)
• Keyword search
• Who's linking to...
• Breaking news stories
• Me
• Directory, ecosystem (blogstreet)
• Sharing (the white on orange XML button)
• The Golden Rule
• Writing
• Goal: Make publication as simple as humanly possible.
• Other characteristics: Baked-in syndication, change notification.
• Your first weblog post
• Reasons to write a weblog
• Enjoy the benefits of writing a diary. More.
• Widen your circle of acquaintances. More.
• Learn something new. Example.
• Find your next job. Example.
• Spend less time repeating yourself.
• Recall past states of mind: by date, by keyword
• Caveat emptor
• Material you might not want to post
• States of mind you might not want to post
• Google effect
• Let's do it
• You will need access to your email (https://webmail.mit.edu/)
• Dowbrigade's instructions
• Reading news in an aggregator
• The problem
• Walk through subscription from existing list
• Subscribe to a weblog that's not in the list