Friday Post-Week 1

  1. What interested me most about the color blue article is that people could not see the color blue before modern days and the Egyptians were the first ones to discover the color blue. The article says the perception and reality are two different things because perception is what we interoperate the world as and reality is what the world is actually like in real life.
  2. My experience with journalism today is that I look on social media what is going on with it today and I think that Journalists should switch to social media to get more people to read the articles they publish. What I make of the new models is that reporters are slowly making a huge impact on the world right now because in some country’s they enjoy reading the news on actual paper because they don’t get paper in their countries.
  3. What I think Discourse community means is that it is a group of people that have a common interest that the other person shares and shares the same language as the other person because it is easier to be on the same level as the other person that you are with. How I understand this concept is that you need to work together as a group and collaborate to get the same ideas. This is a new concept for me and what is interesting to me is that you need to find people that talk the same language as you.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

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