tr.im goes belly up?
i’ve really appreciated the use of tr.im as a “URL-shortening” service. Great when you want to email a very long web address (eg those elluminate sessions)..
Month: August 2009
What is “the blogroll”? Your links out..
The other thing people in the blogging world do is link to each other. People wanted to know how they read and then link to each other’s blogs. Of course there’s always a million ways to do any one thing, isn’t there! You could: subscribe via an RSS reader (eg google reader) – more complicated. add a “friend connection” (via google friend connect) – easy enough. add links in your page via the Layout > Add a Gadget tool – direct on the page. We went for the 3rd option, Read More …
What is "the blogroll"? Your links out..
The other thing people in the blogging world do is link to each other. People wanted to know how they read and then link to each other’s blogs. Of course there’s always a million ways to do any one thing, isn’t there! You could: subscribe via an RSS reader (eg google reader) – more complicated. add a “friend connection” (via google friend connect) – easy enough. add links in your page via the Layout > Add a Gadget tool – direct on the page. We went for the 3rd option, Read More …
23 Things – intro to blogging
Ancy, Soheir and Megan all valiantly posted their first blog messages to the world. Well done all three of you !! After nearly 40 minutes of michael talking about this mythical “Web2” experience.. it was truly time for some hands-on activity. Interesting to read people’s first impressions of blogging: Ancy said she could see they might be useful in some professions for communication, Soheir said she would need to explore the tool before deciding if it could be useful, Megan’s first impression says the blog wouldn’t measure up to email Read More …