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Contents Introduction What blogs would you like to read? How can you keep current? Principles 4/17/2019

Introduction Although this topic is primarily about Blogs, you'll learn how to access many other internet resources Blog is an abbreviation for Web Log There are personal and corporate blogs Blogs can be commentaries or diaries Many allow readers to add comments Do any of you have a blog? Do any of you read blogs? Would you like to blog? www.blogger.com is the 7th most popular site on the web, www.wordpress.com is the 20th. Both are free. 4/17/2019

What blogs would you like to read? www.technorati.com is the most popular blog search engine (according to Alexa). Recently added other media. Let's try it. Notice the top 5 risers and fallers. Authority: number of blogs linking to a site recently. Rank: according to Authority Choose Technology … Videos, Blog directory, top 100 Search, posts or blogs. 4/17/2019

How can you keep current? The secret is a technology called RSS, Really Simple Syndication To use RSS, the first step is to set up a reader. Readers are available from yahoo, bloglines, netvibes, etc. I use Google Reader. The next step is to subscribe to blogs, or other sites. When you visit a site you like, look for this icon And click on the name of your reader 4/17/2019

Google Reader How do you open it? Click on Reader in google, or reader.google.com Log in to your google account if you are not already See how many items await you from the tab Read items at "all items" or by clicking on one feed Go to the site by clicking on the >> See options at the bottom of each item You can share interesting items with those you follow And comment on them All Items/+ : Trends People you follow: Comment view 4/17/2019