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Blogging…
Today I was talking with some friends, @Mrs_Banjer and @mobbsey on Twitter about blogs, and what is / isn’t blocked by their schools, or Ed Qld.I was trying to find a solution for them, so that they could blog at school, without any trouble.
I would love for them to use wordpress.org, but I realise that not everyone has their own hosting, and then you have to buy a domain name etc, and if you’re not really into serious blogging (or don’t have the luxury of a husband who’s in web design, like me), then you’re probably quite put off by all that initial cost. So this wasn’t an option.
My second choice- wordpress.com, a lot of educators use edublogs for the blogging needs, and it is wordpress rebadged, so it would be an easy transition (edublogs is unfortunately blocked by EQ). But apparently wordpress.com is blocked, so I was onto my third choice.
The third choice- blogger. I’m not a fan. I want to be, I really do, but all that orange, and the limitations on the blog itself just put me off. However, I do know this, blogger will let you submit blog posts via email. The subject becomes the title, and then email becomes the content. You get a special email to send it to, and it posts straight away. Handy if blogger is blocked in your school, because obviously, your email address isn’t.
In the end Fiona found a different site to use, but it really annoyed me that my favourite free, easy to use blogging system didn’t have what I wanted, and that the one I really want to use- blogger (because of it’s kick arse google-ness, and the fact that so many people use it), doesn’t have the things that wordpress does…
Why oh why can they not just copy each others ideas!
On another note, I logged into my wordpress.com today (after a long time not logging in), to view the 15 blogs I have there (which are all now extinct), and I thought to myself how nice it was to be part of that wordpress community. When you have your own blog, you’re just on your own, there are no popular blogs of the week, or things like that popping up. No easy way to browse other people’s blogs… I do miss that.
I think 2009 will be my ‘community online’ year- where I’ll try to put myself ‘out there’ more online, and connect and be part of the team.
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Tags: blogger, blogging, edublogs, EQ, fiona, mobbsey, mrs_banjer, School, wordpress
Can I just say….
It is SO nice to not be blocked from every bloody site I go to.
Yay for home internet and administrator access on my own computer. 
I have to ask the question though, why has EQ blocked simple sites that have clip art imges i can use for school, and NOT blocked facebook (am also grateful for this)???
