DPR 100 - Create a Blog

Welcome to www.weeklymusings.blogspot.com or "WeeklyMusings" as I call it. Please feel free to browse the older essays on this page.

Tonight in class we will each be creating our very own Blog.

What is a blog? Great question. Usually described as a web log, they are often used for recording the daily activities of their authors. However, blogs can be used for more than simply online diaries.

You can create a blog for any kind of content. Maybe you'd like to keep your local community, church, or organization informed about upcoming events. Perhaps you'd like to publish a list of your favorite recipes and share them with others.

Do you have a hobby or a band? Do you want to share your experiences on a vacation or an extended stay in a foriegn country? You can create a blog and thereby a web presence of your own for any of these and so many more topics.

What's more, you can even earn a little money for writing what you want. Notice the advertisements on the left column. They are placed by Google with permission of this blog's author. Each time someone clicks on one of the ads, the blog's author makes a few cents. It doesn't sound like much when you only have a couple of readers, but imagine what could happen if your site became popular.

Tonight we will work together to publish your first article on your own blog. Your homework assignment is to publish two more articles on the same blog and send the link to the instructor.

Enjoy,
Joe