FAQs - Week 2 - Blogs

Where do blogs go? Do they just stay on the internet forever? Can you delete a blog? Are there gobs of computers being filled up with blogs? You can not only bring a blog into the world, but you can help it out or transfer it to the next!! Inside your Dashboard, you will see a link that says something to the effect "Delete This Blog". That will do it. Are there gobs of computers being filled up with blogs? Yes.

I still don’t understand how to find blogs. I went to Technorati but wasn’t sure what I was looking at. I noticed the drop down menu. I assume searching a blog post is searching what everyone has written. Technorati will search the Internet for blogs that contain your search words. If you enter "library" for example, Technorati will return 54,000+ blogs that have that word in them. You can narrow your results down by adding words to your original search word. For example, "library +technology" dropped the results to 42,000+ returns. Much better!! To further narrow the search, I used the drop down lists located just below the search bar. From right to left, I first filtered the results to only those in English, then added the "with A Lot of Authority" filter and then finally choose "Blogs About Libraries". These three filters narrowed my results down to 74. So I went from 54,000+ returns to 74, that is manageable.

I want to know how to search for blogs quickly. Be very specific in your search terms. Think about what might all of our Learn 2.0 blogs have in common and try it. (I haven't)

What is a tag? A tag is a descriptor used to help people search your blog, or photo or posting.

I can see the beauty of having a blog like Southwest’s. It is essentially like a webpage but easier to add info to. I didn’t see that anyone had commented to most of the postings. The comments to the Teen blog made little sense. So I can see how creating a blog to get info out works but I don’t see a back and forth with comments and why wouldn’t you use email which is less public? Most teens do not make sense, I agree! haha!! You can blog for both personal and professional reasons. In the professional realm, the ability to add comments is a form of collaboration. Feedback has the potential to change your perspective, broaden your view or provide detail that helps someone better understand or get the job done. Public or private? I guess that depends on the person and the topic.

This all seems too public to me. I never kept a diary and I certainly wouldn’t keep a public one. I’m afraid I’m not 20 and into sharing myself with the world – reading others’ blog/diaries is creepy. I can see maybe using this (on a personal basis) if one were on a trip and logging it and then letting friends and relatives know the blog site – that would be easier than sending postcards, although I’m not sure it is easier than sending an email. Good points. For the purposes of the course, you can blog on course related topics. In every Share activity, I will provide a few ideas related to what we covered that week. You can use these as discussion items for your blog posts. You don't have to answer every question, but you can, you can also use them to spring board into other thought arenas.

I would like to know how to import pictures etc. Maybe it tells how to do that when you sign up/create the blog but I haven’t done that yet. When you are creating a new blog post, there is an Add Image icon. Click the Add Image icon and follow the prompts to locate the pictures on your computer and upload them to your blog . Once they are in your blog you can move them to where you would like them. You can also find more specific directions in Post Photos in your Blogger Dashboard.


If we wanted to look at some of the blogs created for this assignment how would one go about finding them? I will post a list of participant blogs on the right side of the course page. Right now there are 30+ blogs listed.

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