Awesome: In Which I Explain Blogging

Again, welcome to the 1000 blogging community. In this network we will share random thoughts, ideas, information, creativity, and whatever else comes to mind. You at least have an active audience in myself, and I encourage you to visit your classmates' blogs whenever you can (see the list to the right -->). There is also the chance that random people from around the world may stumble upon your writing and read it ... and maybe enjoy it. Regardless, I want you to write for no specific audience.

Write for yourself.

Write anything and everything. Anecdotes, reviews, stories, poetry, commentary. It is not my goal to put words and ideas into your heads, so for that reason I will not assign topics and questions to answer (you can enjoy doing that in class). Feel free to mess with the title and design of your blog to match your personality or your style. Posting videos and pictures is encouraged (for example, Kelvine wrote a bit about Kanye being an idiot at the VMAs ... he could have added a YouTube clip of it happening so people could better understand the situation).

I will try to model different ways of blogging throughout the semester on this page. I will also update with any important information in regards to the class (like FLYER ROUGH DRAFTS DUE WEDNESDAY) Stuff like that.

As far as expectations go, it would be hard to tell you if a post is good or bad because that is not the point of this assignment. Basically, I want at least two posts every week, beginning Monday morning and ending Sunday night. Now, I understand that you may write more than twice a week (and I encourage that) but I would like the writing to add up over the week. If I think you are not writing enough, I will let you know. That is much easier to do than putting a number on the words to be written.

Make sure to add this blog as well as your blog to your bookmarks on whichever browser you use. I won't be sending out many more mass e-mails in the future, so if you miss class or simply forgot what is happening, you are more than likely to find an answer here.

That's all for now. Have fun.