An inauguration of self

Salutations. This blog was created for the sole purpose of recording my explorations of Web 2.0 in leu of my EDES 501 class. Concerning the self, I am in the midst of completing the MLIS program at the University of Alberta. During the regular school year, I live in Edmonton however at the moment, I live somewhere in central Alberta. While taking summer classes, I have been keeping busy with random part-time jobs, pottery projects, and maintaining my garden.

I came to serious blogging three years ago and was introduced to Blogger through a friend. I had tried blogging through LiveJournal, but found myself losing interest shortly after creating an account. I've stayed with Blogger due to the ease in which I can create a blog and easily access information that has aided my blogging experience. The latest self-exploration of Blogger has been HTML coding in the templates. Since taking several classes where XHTML and CSS have been heavily used, I've applied this new found knowledge in such areas of the web as my blog template. Creating this blog was straightforward. The only challenge that presented itself was fiddling with the coding in the template to get the look I wanted.

Although I have blogged for sometime, that does not necessarily mean I know everything. For those who are interested in knowing about blogs and what is offered within the infrastructure, I would recommend an article by idealware. A simple, yet complete review concerning the ins and outs of blogging and blog tools. Idealware posses a list of questions to ask when looking for a suitable blog tool, reviews seven blog tools (Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad, Moveable Type, WordPress, ExpressionEngine, TextPattern) and makes easy-to-read recommendations at the end of the article. Just by reading this article I am considering a blog crawl to see the sunny and puddly sides of these different blog tools. Tempting. Very tempting.

But blogging is only the tip of this web-based iceberg. Tune in next time as I delve a little deeper into these techie waters to contemplate and divulge on photo sharing sites.