Word: blogger
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Blogs have become the supreme information filter, replacing in function the ineffective software that was supposed to help us avoid information overload by supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President...
...cheap and outside the control of professional editors—is rapidly changing forever the business of setting the national agenda. The phenomenon and the technology behind it are called weblogging, or “blogging” for short. Using free, easy-to-use software like Greymatter and Blogger, anyone can set up a personal website in minutes. While this is no real innovation, blogging software allows users to post additional content to their site immediately, with the newest entries displayed at the top of the page and older ones scrolling down. Blogging software organizes these entries into archives...
...running. All you have to do is decide on a title, choose one of the dozen or so nifty color templates and provide the address of the website where you want it published. You can get a free site at places like Yahoo.com and Tripod.com or Blogger will host your words of wisdom free if you accept advertising. Ad-free blogs cost $12 a year...
Given how daunting it is for novices to set up a good-looking website on their own, Blogger is almost like cheating. I should know: it has been 18 months since I bought the website name DailyBlah.com and in all that time I never mustered the courage to knuckle down and learn enough HTML (the language of the Web) to turn it into the irreverent news-and-views site I had in mind. After five minutes on Blogger, Daily Blah was finally in business...
Making journal entries is simplicity itself. Type your blindingly brilliant insight or cool link in a white box on the Blogger website, run it through the optional spellcheck, and hit the button marked PUBLISH. Blogger provides the date, the time and the layout. If you libeled Granny and didn't mean to, you can take back and edit any posting. I had one small hiccup: adding links for the first time isn't as intuitive as it could be. Otherwise there has never been a better way to let your voice be heard. We may not all look like RuPaul...