blogs and blogging in plain English

Why re-invent the wheel to report what other wonderful work others have done? - quick post on blogs the easy peasy way ;D

The gang at Common craft who do such fab work on making things easy produced this video on blogs in plain English. Check out their other work in blip.tv.

My two cents worth as they say in the states (my experience/opinion) is that observation is a powerful tool to see what's out there in the blog world, and if you couple this with the firefox add-on called NoScript, then you can see exactly what's embeded in every blog (scripts, widgets, etc.).

So keep your passion alive - always seek to make life easier for others, to communicate and to have all the fun you can with your blogging. It's about engaging yourself and being in the moment. If it's not fun, then why do it?


Resources/links related to blogging...

170+ Must-Have Tools For The Beginning Blogger
http://elitebydesign.com/170-must-have-tools-for-the-beginning-blogger/

Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers
http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/blogging-toolbox/

The Ultimate Blogger’s Toolbox - More than 80 links to tools and resources to help improve your blogging experience
http://www.habitationofjustice.com/bloggers-toolbox

Universal McCann provides statistics and a global insight into the popularity of blogging in different countries
http://www.universalmccann.com/Assets/wave_3_20080403093750.pdf

future labs take on blogging and education
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/web-articles/Web-Article569

Comments, Trackback: Blogger vs Haloscan
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2005/05/comments-trackback-blogger-vs-haloscan.html

20 Analytics Tools For Blogs
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/01/20-blog-analytics-tools/

what the world is searching for - using yahoo search
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

googles hottest search terms...
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

search for trends and what's hot in the blogosphere
http://www.blogpulse.com/

what's popular and hot - technorati
http://technorati.com/pop/

Blogger image and text wrapping Merlarkie

Blogger can be a pain with multiple images speically with text...
I've had issues with making sure that images and text don't wrap around each other when I don't want them to!...I even resorted to some botch HTML and old school tricks of repeating text and making it white. White against white...invisible magic ;-)

It's not accessible...my x-colleagues would tell me and slap my wrist. But I hadn't explored the attributes of the line break tag : 'BR' between triangular brackets...as shown in image below

Can you believe that blogger still attempts to interpret 'tags' in the compose mode!...peace be unto blogger and may it get better ;-)

The blogger Edit Html extra tag solution
The way to solve it in blogger, is that once you've got all the images as you want them in "compose mode"...and absolutely nothing else to change!!!...this is important...and I repeat, "absolutely nothing else to change...", then...

1. switch to 'Edit Html' mode (within the posting window)
2. Scroll to find your images...
[and as for some reason blogger insists on making these images clickable links for no reason, get to the end where you should find the closing hyperlink tag of each image you inserted into your post. (Again, blogger is seeing this as a tag even in compose mode!..hence the image below)]


3. Place right next to each of the "closing hyperlink tag" (nestling your image) a "BR" in triangular bracket with the attribute clear equalls all, and "all" in double quotes as shown.
4.Click the 'publish post' button and you're done ;-)

If you forgot to add something to your post...well, you're buggered and you have to repeat the process, I know, it happened to me ;-)

Links/Resources
http://www.createafreewebsite.net/html_tutorial/line_break.html