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Blogging 101: WordPress

Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society explains how to get started with the WordPress based Blogsome.com blogging software.


Steps covered:
1. Create your blog's web address/username
2. Enter your Email address and Blog Title
3. Log on to your email and get your password
4. Log on to Blogsome with your username and password
5. Create your first post with a Link and text formating, em = bold and italic.
6. Publish

Other things covered:
Calendar
Archives
Categories
Links
Dashboard to manage posts, change links, modify users
How to delete a post

"This is the great thing about this. it took us about five minutes... an now we've got this thing," Ethan Zuckerman.

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March 29, 2005 in Video, videoblogging, videobloggingweek2005 |

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Steve,

Yet another piece of brilliant video blogging. I had just decided to try WordPress because all the cool kids on my block are using it. I watched your video of Ethan's demo at around 00:45 GMT and I had my WordPress via BlogSome weblog up and running by 01:15 GMT.

Mike Walsh

Posted by: Mike Walsh | March 29, 2005 at 07:52 AM

Great stuff!! Thanks so much for doing this.
Cheers,
Rebecca

Posted by: Rebecca | March 29, 2005 at 07:53 AM

Good tutorial. Can I download the video file independently?

Posted by: james | March 29, 2005 at 01:56 PM

If you've got QuickTime Pro, you can click on the right hand bubtton and select "Save Source"

Posted by: steve garfield | March 29, 2005 at 02:05 PM

em=bold?

i thought that str=bold and em=italic

Posted by: Eric | March 29, 2005 at 03:54 PM

You are right!

STR = STRONG => BOLD
EM = Emphasis => ITALIC

Posted by: steve garfield | March 29, 2005 at 04:17 PM

oh woops, that was meant for the ski post sorry

Posted by: Stuart Lawson | March 31, 2005 at 04:42 AM

we need to do the same for videoblogging..
how often do they meet?
(plus they got food)

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Posted by: 流水线 | August 20, 2007 at 10:53 PM

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Posted by: torbej | October 12, 2008 at 05:33 PM

Interesting post ToM. You said, “it uses and alters the shot material of Brando without his consent or creative consultation.” That might be somewhat difficult due to Brando’s being dead.

Posted by: plastik cerrahi | November 14, 2008 at 06:31 AM

While user-generated content is not new, what is new is how easy it is to publish and manage. In 2005 Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote in his blog: “Simplicity changes the world. Convenience is a force multiplier.

Posted by: Estetik | November 15, 2008 at 09:33 PM

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