Musings on Discoveries to Come--Week Two

This week’s readings gave me a better understanding about the development of blogging and of some of the vocabulary I did not know, such as TrackBack and blogroll. Hourihan’s explanation of permalinks was interesting—I can imagine how difficult it would have been to browse through previous posts to find stuff. I am not sure how to set up a permalink, or whether this happens automatically.

I wish I had known about the various attributes of the different blogging software before I chose the software for my blog. I think WordPress would have been a better choice because it offers categorization of archived records, and also a blogroll at the side of the screen, both of which are unavailable in Blogger. I understand that there might be additional modules that might add these functionalities—for Blogger? I wonder why LiveJournal is not included in Gardner’s comparison of blogging software. Is it because LiveJournal’s intent is to be more than a blog?

I do not like the permanency of what is posted/commented—making it impossible to totally delete any spam that appears, only possible to disable it.

I wonder whether Blood’s comments about her blogging experience--discovering her own interests and valuing her own opinions and ideas—will be valid for my experience as well. So far, I am still hesitant about the idea of expressing ideas online.