Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A good lead, & a dodgy one

I've found an excellent resource for starting a blog: The Edublogger. A good mix of tricky advanced stuff, & straightforward clear instructions for early steps. One of the best.
The first 5 tips for writing better posts were v useful for me, who's in about 3rd gear with blogging.
But then I followed a link from an example, & found Scribd. This site allows you to upload a multi-page file, which are converted to a kind of Flash movie (Flash Paper) that simulates the pages. Sounds great, except there didn't seem much content control. A quick stroll around the Scribd groups showed some odd groups, & some odd material in the groups. Eg, the Apple group had lots of ads for a Chinese mp3 player, plus '40 ways men fail in bed'. Can't recommend that yet. 
The awesome power of the internet is partly in the ease you can publish almost any stuff, but that means that almost any stuff is up there. You have to use your own judgement. Filters don't work properly, ask Mr Howard, former PM of Australia, who wasted $84 million on dud software. Use recommendations, & use your head!

1 comment:

Sue Waters said...

Glad you are finding The Edublogger helpful. My First 5 Tips posts has been incredibly popular and still really widely read considering I wrote it earlier this year.

I suppose I should do an update to that post and add some more tips. Good luck with your blogging.