For New Bloggers

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


I've been working with some faculty who want to get into blogging, so I have been getting together some links and articles for the newbie blogger.

One to look at is Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool? from the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review.

It includes a brief glossary of blogging jargon like Skins = the pre-designed templates that give the blog a certain look (CSS for those who don't want to know about CSS) and post scheduling = in some blog software, a feature that allows you to write posts and schedule them to be published at some point in the future - the equivalent of the release feature in a CMS. I'm typing this on 3/16 but setting it to publish itself five minutes into 3/19.

It also looks at some of the blogging tools (services) available like the free Blogger and WordPress, and commercial services like TypePad and Movable Type.

Technorati is the place most bloggers (and non-bloggers) go to search blogs, but Google's Beta Blog Search is also a good place to look.

I have done some meta-blogging here on Serendipity35 on topics like college blogs, blogs in education and academia.

And Cranky Geek, John C. Dvorak, has a post on how to read a blog that's a useful guide.

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