Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Blog b = new Blog("Lewis Fox");

This isn't my first blog I made, however this was my first blog on the blogger platform, so this was new.  My first experience with a blog was when I used a small free hosting service to post my flash games that I was experimenting with.  I used Wordpress to keep everything organized, and did some blogging on it while I was at it.  Sadly, the web server had issues and it is no longer hosted, but I might be able to get some of the posts back if I find my backup.  The other blog I've made was for a school sponsored trip to Scotland.  You can read it here: http://foxscotland.wordpress.com.  I never really felt like a good blogger personally.  It may have something to do with my general laziness of writing, but I don't feel like I would be a good vlogger (video blogger) either, so it just may be that I don't like sharing everything.

When Eric Leake said we were using Blogger, I was unsure, as most of my blogging experience was with WordPress, but after fumbling through the settings, there doesn't seem to be that many differences.  WordPress has a larger library of themes and can be used on a personal site, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.  The biggest difference I could find was Blogger was linked to Google accounts and Google+ while WordPress uses it's own login system that can be linked to Facebook (but only optionally).  Blogger would be easier to share with Google users, while WordPress seems to work by generating a user-base for the interaction.  The person to person interactions seems to be what makes blogs (and vlogs) interesting, so make sure to comment and make the conversation interesting.

3 comments:

  1. Did you do that Vlogger thing on purpose?

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    1. What do you mean by "vlogger thing"? I mentioned vlogging on purpose, yes, but I don't know what you mean by 'thing'

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  2. I thought it was interesting that you said you don't see yourself as a good blogger. In my opinion, I don't think you can really say that a blog or blogger is good or bad. What defines a good blogger? What defines a bad blogger?
    See you in class tomorrow! :)

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