Final post to your blog

Final post to your blog due today. No posts to your blog will be accepted about 1 p.m.

Recommendation:

Make one recommendation below for improving the class.

Material for final, 11 am May 9

You will be responsible to know:
Blog Terms; Typography; Selected link from State of Blogosphere; Dave Rhea comments in class

A. Blog terms:

1. ·       Archive
2. ·       Attribution
3. ·       Blog
4. ·       Blog host
5. ·       Blog marketing
6. ·       Blog post
7. ·       Blog statistics
8. ·       Blogger
9. ·       Blogging software
10. ·       Blogosphere
11. ·       Blogroll
12. ·       Blogspot
13. ·       Browser
14. ·       Comment
15. ·       Comment moderation
16. ·       Contextual advertising
17. ·       Dashboard
18. ·       Domain name
19. ·       Footer
20. ·       Forum
21. ·       FTP
22. ·       Google
23. ·       Guest blogging
24. ·       Header
25. ·       Hit
26. ·       Home page
27. ·       HTML
28. ·       Keyword
29. ·       Label
30. ·       Link
31. ·       Niche
32. ·       Page view
33. ·       Plug
34. ·       Podcast
35. ·       Post
36. ·       Professional blogger
37. ·       Profile
38. ·       RSS
39. ·       Search engine
40. ·       Search engine optimization
41. ·       Sidebar
42. ·       Spam
43. ·       Subscribe
44. ·       Tag
45. ·       Technorati
46. ·       Template
47. ·       URL
48. ·       Vi
49. Worpress

B. Typography"

Clark’s Guide to

Readable Typography for Blogs

(Or anything, for that matter)

1.         Serif—Easiest to read

2.         Sans Serif—harder to read the     smaller it is or the more of it there is

3.           Most body type should be about 12 point in size

4.           Script is hard to read

5.           Italic is hard to read

6.         Only center type

          On Invitations,

            Or Titles, not

            On most  material

7.  ALL CAPS IS HARD TO READ

8.                  REVERSE TYPE 

        should be at a

9.  Minimum
And small san serif 
is hard to read
As is colored type
on reverse  

10.             Screens can make type hard to read

Especially over sans serif

Or heavy and colored screens

11.               Weak colors disappear

12.               Colored type isn’t as effective

As black type, or dark type on a light background

C. State of Blogosphere link:
http://trends.e-strategyblog.com/2012/08/01/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-2012-infographic/2383

today's presentations

Comment on something you gained from eachof today's presentations:

1. Elisio Garcia
2. Adam Holt

Today's passions

Comment below about what these two bloggers had in common about their advice:

Emily Pencil Shavings Studio pencilshavingsstudio.com

Laura Wolf Daily Thunder dailythunder.com

The international power of blogging...

Read this link from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/opinion/keller-a-blogger-on-trial-in-russia.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

Comment below. What does this tell you about the power of digital media, both socially and politically.
Would you put your life ont he line if this was the case in the USA? Why or why not?

Today's presentations

Click on the blogs, review the presentations, and comment on each below about something you learned or could use on your blog.

Peter Lam, Pairdime Music  pairadimemusic.com

Ashley Kline,  Color is My Weapon colorismyweapon.blogspot.com