Great Class- Lot's of Information! :)

See everyone next week! Happy Friday!

It's a new blog

I am just posting a test document.

Purpose of my blog...

Help!! I already have too many blogs!!!

Yours, not mine

I'm interested in other people's blogs: How do I get information and messages onto the top blogs in various categories? So I need to learn blogging in order to better access BoingBoing, Method, Paleo-future etc. etc. with information -- without getting squirted out of the blogosphere like a watermelon seed for being a melvin.

I want to use as blog to.........

1. Keep my employers appraised of my work schedule/priorities.
2. All at UCSD who need or use my services.
3. Viewed and commented on by Hydraulics Lab personnel.
4. Two way communication.

i want to use a blog

1. purpose: to interact with students on campus life issues - gage the campus climate / culture
2. audience: students
3. authors: campus community
4. communication: two way

What I want for my blog

I want my blog to simply be my running weekly diary about my Self Expression and Leadership Class at Landmark Education in San Diego.

My intended audience is the other (approx.) 50 members of the class.

Author: me

Should be two-way, if that means readers can send comments.

Blog: Why, Who, How & What?

Purpose: To share stories about my life in San Diego, with the focus being on my toddler son.

Intended Audience: Interested family and friends

Author: Self

Communication: Two-way

Exercise 1

Purpose: Research and discuss topics relating to my work. Post inquires relating to new vendors, current developments in architecture and "green" building.

Audience: Office staff members and self. General public.

Author(s): Office staff members and self (?)

Communication: Two-way

...honestly, I just want to find a better way to utilize existing blogs for research purposes. I dont need to start my own.

Hi

Don't know what I am doing here or if this is the right place.

CD

Blogging Policy - Exported from Zoho Writer

A blogging policy can clarify:

• Why you are blogging (purpose)

• Who will be blogging

• The roles of the blog administrator, blog posters, and anyone else involved on the IT side

• Who is the intended audience

• "Best practices" of blogging, both content and style

Blogging Policy for UCSD Science & Engineering Library (last update March 7, 2007)

Policies may need revisiting Spring 2007, when/if library blogs move from Movable Type to campus WordPress software

Purpose and General Description

• The S&E blog is a vehicle for timely news and information of interest to users of the S&E website.

• The 3 most recent posts will be pushed out to the S&E homepage using feed-to-javascript conversion. There’s also a link to the complete blog as well as an RSS feed if users want to add the feed to their RSS reader.

• The S&E reference providers are expected to provide the blog content. SuHui is the blog administrator, responsible for accounts, configuration and creating new categories (which can be proposed in our web meetings). Teri can assist users with training, best practices and suggestions for content.

• The comments feature has been disabled.

Subject Categories (entries may fit in multiple categories)
Categories will be listed after each entry and accessible through the MT archive

• Classes and User Guides – our classes and new web guides

• Exhibits - ours and exhibits on campus

• News & Events – our news and events and UCSD events of interest

• Books & Encyclopedias – emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print

• Journals– emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print

• Database News – trials, new databases, updates

• Known Problems and Down Time - database, ejournal, and other system down time

• Science News & Hot Topics

• Faculty News – faculty publications and honors

• Tech Tools – tips and gadgets

• Good Web Sites – things that we’re adding to Sage that we’d like to mention again, for example.

Best Practices – Content

• Do not copy entire postings from other sources

  • If you are directly quoting, identify it as such using italics and quotation marks

  • Please give credit to other sources. If you’re posting about something you found on another blog, you can give them a simple hat-tip at the end of the entry (h/t: Site and URL).

• If possible, try to trace links back to the original source, as opposed to repeating what someone else is blogging.

• If you need to update an entry, that’s fine. All of us should have rights to update any entry.

• If you’re not ready for an entry go live, you can leave it in draft mode. You can also take a live entry and put it back in draft, then rebuild the site to make it disappear.

• To update an entry and reset it so it appears at the top, change the date of the entry to today. You cannot push a live entry out on a future date by postdating it.

Best Practices – Style

• Titles should be brief: 6 words or less

• Writing style should generally be brief, informal, conversational. Contractions and bulleted lists are fine. Correct spelling and basic grammar are also important.

• If the entry is going to be rather long, enter the beginning in the main entry box, and use the “full entry” box for the rest. Users will see a link to read the rest of the entry.

• Using a more personal tone should be done with care and discretion. Commentary on how one can use a resource is one thing, but avoid personal opinions.

• Hyperlinks can be inline (and should be inline if they’re long): i.e an article in this week’s Science or written out: i.e. go to Roger – http://roger.ucsd.edu

• Avoid statements like “click here.”

• Our version of MT almost no WYSIWYG editor, so anything beyond bold/italics/underlining, uploading images and embedding hyperlinks will need to be handcoded in HTML. This includes lists, tables and alignments.

Google Calendar

I've been playing around with Google Calendar:

• Here's the link
  
• and here it is embedded:
  
  
  

Blogging Policy - Exported from Google Docs

A blogging policy can clarify:

• Why you are blogging (purpose)
  
• Who will be blogging
• The roles of the blog administrator, blog posters, and anyone else involved on the IT side
  
• Who is the intended audience
  

• "Best practices" of blogging, both content and style
  

Blogging Policy for UCSD Science & Engineering Library (last update March 7, 2007)

Policies may need revisiting Spring 2007, when/if library blogs move from Movable Type to campus WordPress software

Purpose and General Description

• The S&E blog is a vehicle for timely news and information of interest to users of the S&E website.
• The 3 most recent posts will be pushed out to the S&E homepage using feed-to-javascript conversion. There’s also a link to the complete blog as well as an RSS feed if users want to add the feed to their RSS reader.
• The S&E reference providers are expected to provide the blog content. SuHui is the blog administrator, responsible for accounts, configuration and creating new categories (which can be proposed in our web meetings). Teri can assist users with training, best practices and suggestions for content.
• The comments feature has been disabled.

Subject Categories (entries may fit in multiple categories)
Categories will be listed after each entry and accessible through the MT archive

• Classes and User Guides – our classes and new web guides
• Exhibits - ours and exhibits on campus
• News & Events – our news and events and UCSD events of interest
• Books & Encyclopedias – emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print
• Journals– emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print
• Database News – trials, new databases, updates
• Known Problems and Down Time - database, ejournal, and other system down time
• Science News & Hot Topics
• Faculty News – faculty publications and honors
• Tech Tools – tips and gadgets
• Good Web Sites – things that we’re adding to Sage that we’d like to mention again, for example.

Best Practices – Content

• Do not copy entire postings from other sources
• If you are directly quoting, identify it as such using italics and quotation marks
• Please give credit to other sources. If you’re posting about something you found on another blog, you can give them a simple hat-tip at the end of the entry (h/t: Site and URL).
• If possible, try to trace links back to the original source, as opposed to repeating what someone else is blogging.
• If you need to update an entry, that’s fine. All of us should have rights to update any entry.
• If you’re not ready for an entry go live, you can leave it in draft mode. You can also take a live entry and put it back in draft, then rebuild the site to make it disappear.
• To update an entry and reset it so it appears at the top, change the date of the entry to today. You cannot push a live entry out on a future date by postdating it.

Best Practices – Style

• Titles should be brief: 6 words or less
• Writing style should generally be brief, informal, conversational. Contractions and bulleted lists are fine. Correct spelling and basic grammar are also important.
• If the entry is going to be rather long, enter the beginning in the main entry box, and use the “full entry” box for the rest. Users will see a link to read the rest of the entry.
• Using a more personal tone should be done with care and discretion. Commentary on how one can use a resource is one thing, but avoid personal opinions.
• Hyperlinks can be inline (and should be inline if they’re long): i.e an article in this week’s Science or written out: i.e. go to Roger – http://roger.ucsd.edu
• Avoid statements like “click here.”
• Our version of MT almost no WYSIWYG editor, so anything beyond bold/italics/underlining, uploading images and embedding hyperlinks will need to be handcoded in HTML. This includes lists, tables and alignments.
  

RSS Resources

Just a reminder that the RSS Resources page has been updated for the Feb 16 workshop. More tools to push and remix RSS feed content.

Blog or Wiki?

I'm sure there are more definitive (and professional!) opinions as to why one would use a blog or a wiki, but I found this one to be quite amusing. Excerpt "Well it is a bit like the difference between men and women. Blogs are chatty, like some women and Wikis tend to be more to the point and factual, like some men."

How do we control "security"?

If I want a blog that is open only to a particular set of people (say, nurses...who want privacy within their group), how do I control that aspect?

SSH Outreach Blog

Our group is planning to create a blog for news and events (outreach) for SSH, for example to send messages about new exhibits, lectures, etc. The main admistrator will be Mariah, but she will edit information from other SSH staff members.

Nice job!

Good class!

I'm posting simply to post something

Hi y'all.

Nice class

Thank you for the class.

New Blog For SE Circulation Unit

The purpose of the blog will be to increase communication among SE Circulation Staff. The intended audience is the SE Circulation Staff. All Circulation Staff will be able to contribute and the blog should allow for two way communication!!!!

NACO blog

I want to set up a blog to enable catalogers who create NACO records to share information, make links to their tools in one handy spot, and keep notes of their decisions and actions for their quarterly meetings. Technical considerations:
-link from TPOT
-I can serve as administrator
-limit contributors to NACO catalogers and supervisors

Hiking in San Diego

The purpose of our blog would be to share information about hiking opportunities in San Diego. We would share recent hiking experiences, look for tips on hiking, and share photos. Our intended audience would be beginning to advanced hikers. All of these people would be welcome to contribute and comment.

Looking Forward to the Class

I have a blog (researchskills.blogger.com), but I can't figure out how to list it in my profile. I'm looking forward to the class so I can do more than stumble through the process. I want to be a more accomplished user and learn what all the possibilities are with blogging. Thanks Teri!

Thanks!!!

Just wanted to thank everyone again for attending and contributing to the workshop. Please go back to the workshop link at Enrollment Central and complete the evaluation. This workshop, like Web 2.0 tools in general, is in perpetual beta; any suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated.

Please contact me if you have additional questions, need passwords to get back into the workshop blog, wiki or RSS reader, or just want to share how you're integrating these applications into your work.

Blogging Policies

S&E Library's Blogging Policies, with some general information added.
On our reference wiki, which I've set up for public viewing temporarily until I place a copy on SD Librarian

And an early "best practices" document I put together when we were setting up blogs at Georgia State.

Blog policy example

Hi Teri,

You mentioned in class last week that you might be able to post a couple examples of Blog policy. I would love to have an electronic version that I can use as a base template for creating one of my own.

Thanks!

Tim

Exercise 1: Online Clinical Library

Purpose: Users of the Online Clinical Library will have a place to post comments about a particular resource.

Audience: Medical students and researchers.

Author: I'm the initial author.

Comm.: two-way

Thanks Everyone!!! (and assignment)

Thanks again for attending the workshop! I overscheduled a bit, and I'll keep that in mind when fine-tuning next week's workshop. Let me know if you have any questions, by email or IM (AOL/Yahoo - tmvogel2).

During the week:

• Continue posting and commenting on the blog. If you want to continue the in-class assignment of identifying the blog you want to create and the technical assets and challenges, go ahead. At least a few of you were already striking out and creating new blogs of your own. Those will appear only on your Blogger dashboard unless you invite others to contribute.
• Add a few more RSS feeds to the Bloglines account. There are dozens of RSS readers available, and what you end up using will be based on your preferences. Though not perfect, I prefer the web-based Bloglines and Google Reader because I'm not tied to a single computer. If you really stick to one computer, then a desktop reader or using your browser to capture and read the feeds may be better alternatives. Just start small to avoid information overload.

• And if you're feeling daring, try out one of the Google products and let everyone know what you think. Docs and Spreadsheets is the closest match to what we'll be talking about next week.
  

About the Page Elements

Workshop Links is a standard Link List (which can select more than once to create more than one list of links

iPhone - Google News RSS Feed uses the Feed option. I ran the search in Google News and pasted the URL into the Feed form. Once the feed was validated, I selected the option to display 3 headlines. I could've also used Feed2JS and copied the resulting script into an HTML/Javascript page element.

Tags (originally called Labels) and Blog Archive are page element options that you only select once. You can arrange the tags alphabetically or in order of use, and you have several display options for the archive.

Feeds is another Link List.

Recent comments acutally used a third-party widget from Hackosphere and Beautiful Beta. It's a chunk of script that uses the HTML/Javascript page element, but I could've also used the Feed option since the comments have a separate RSS feed.

exercise 2

there is an office server
i will be the blog administrator
7

question 1

use is to keep unit colleagues updated on contract interpreation
intended audience is unit colleagues
authors will be colleagues
multi communication

Student Worker

This blog is for student workers at SSH library to check for announcements and to seek a replacement when s/he cannot work.
Authors will be SSH Library staff and students.
Communication will be two-way.

Idea for exercise 1

Purpose: to facilitate communicate and exchange of information
Intended audience: colleagues in Central Budget Offices across UC system
Authors: all members of the intended audience
Communication: 2-way

Library Development

Purpose: To communicate events and activities more effectively to our membership.
Audience: Board, members and prospective members from the community.
Author: Development Coordinator
One-way communication.

answer to question 1&2

Purpose is to communicate cryoEM advancement
Audience is the CryoEM community
Authors will be anyone trying cryoEM technique
Communication will be multi-way

I will setup a server once I know how, so that I will also be the administrator with the highest IT support.

great workshop

tet-ignore

This is a test post to Teri's blog.

fom Sue

Google Applications

Personalized homepage, with gadgets, feeds, and incoming content from other Google applications.

See the complete list of available applications. Don't forget to check out their Labs section.

• GMail - relatively spam-free email reader
• Alerts - for Google searches
• Co-Op - create your own search engines
• Docs and Spreadsheets - work, publish, share, edit in web environment
• Sample spreadsheet - S&E Library Browsing Collection
• Sample document - HTML Cheatsheet
  
• Reader - RSS reader
• Notebook - sticky notes that bookmarking feature
• Page Creator - build webpages
• Sample page
  
• Groups - discussion groups

Others: Calendar, Picasa (photo editing/sharing)

Test post to Teri's blog (ignore)

Just to see if this works.
Cheers,
- Mike

RSS Resources

RSS Compendium - lists of readers, RSS feeds, and resources to locate feeds and feed content

Selecting an RSS Reader

• Web-Based Readers
• Bloglines, Bloglines Beta, Google Reader, Rojo, My Yahoo
• Desktop Readers - Windows, Mac, Cross-Platform
  
• NewsGator/Outlook, Feed Demon, NetNewsWire
  
• Browser-Integrated Readers
  
• Safari, Firefox (with/without Sage extension), IE 7
  

Looking for Feeds?

• RSS Compendium: check the sections for Directories, Feeds and Search
• Bloglines Feed Directory
• College & University Feed Directory
• Medical Feeds & RSS4Medics
  
• NewsIsFree
• Recommended Science, Engineering & Technology RSS Feeds (UCSD S&E Library)
• Syndic8
• US Government RSS Library
• FreePatentsOnline & FreshPatents.com
  
• Search it in Google, i.e. economist and RSS
• Go right to the website and look for it: graphics, search engine, sitemap, autodiscovery
  

Customizable News Searches

• Google News
  
• Yahoo News
  

UCSD Library Resources w/ RSS Feeds

• S&E and BML Library Blogs
  
• Databases - like the custom news feeds
  
• Inspec, PubMed, Compendex, Web of Science, arXiv, Astrophysics Data System, Biosis, ERIC, PsycINFOAcademic Search Complete, Business Source Complete,
• E-Journals (not a complete list)
  
• Publishers: Elsevier/Science Direct, Wiley/Blackwell, Springer, IEEE, Univ Chicago, Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Nature Publishing Group, BioMed Central, Public Library of Science, Sage Press, Cell Press, most of the chemistry and physics societies
• Individual Journals: Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New England Journal of Medicine, Chronicle of Higher Education, JAMA

RSS Tools

• Feed2JS converts a feed into Javascript, which you then copy/paste into a blog or other website. This creates dynamically generated headlines.
• Yahoo Pipes and RSS Mix (among others) allow you to mix feeds into a single, new feed.
• Feedburner - Captures statistics on RSS use and subscribers
• AddThis - Create your own multi-reader subscription button for your site, instead of creating multiple buttons for multiple readers.
  
• RSS Icon Gallery - Reader subscription shortcuts
  
• Free RSS Graphic Tool - Create your own RSS graphic

Blogging Software Options

The Weblogs Compendium probably has the most complete list of blogging solutions and tools. Blogging solutions fall into 2 categories:

• Hosted (with/without mapping to your own domain)
• Download to run on a web server
  
• see WordPress' instructions to see what this entails
  

Google

1. Blogger - free and hosted (w/ option to FTP to your own domain); can set up and blog within minutes, and administrator can do quite a bit with limited experience. Lots of "under-the-hood" potential with third-party widgets and templates.
   

WordPress

1. WordPress - free and download to run on your server; considered by many to be superior to Movable Type; administrator will need more experience and time to get this up and running.
2. WordPress.com - free and hosted version of WordPress, with many of its features; can add and move the sidebar widgets and edit CSS to change the style after selecting one of the 50+ templates; setup time/experience similar to Blogger.
3. UCSD WordPress (Multi-User) - UCSD's new blogging software; based on regular WordPress but designed for large-scale deployment; individual accounts based on UCSD network username and Active Directory password; easy to use, but very limited number of templates and even fewer customization options. This is what S&E, BML and SSHL use for their library blogs. Moderate-to-high comment spam (e-mail notifications).
   

Six Apart

1. Movable Type - equivalent to WordPress.org, software that can be downloaded to run on your server; free/personal use, and licenses for everyone else (based on #users, prices for commercial and nonprofits); more experience and time to get this up and running.
2. TypePad - MT's original hosted version, with monthly feess of $5-$9-$15-$30/month; customization and features increase (including FTP to your own domain) increase with subscription level.
3. Vox - new, free hosted service, with emphasis on personal blogging.

Looking Forward to this Class

Found link in my spam folder. -Marie

Workshop Definitions

Autodiscovery (also autodetection) – web browser’s ability to detect available RSS feeds on a webpage, usually indicated with an RSS/XML icon showing up at the end of the browser URL address bar; can click that icon to add the feed to your RSS reader.

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript & XML) - web programming that is influencing the development of many Web 2.0 applications; an example of AJAX at work is Google Maps.

Badge – In some Web 2.0 sites, another name for the widget that allows you to display recently added or random items in your account (bookmarked sites, photos, etc.) elsewhere like a blog or webpage.

Blog – a website where you can use forms to post content ("entries") that appear in reverse chronological order, using databases, scripting, templates and style sheets to automate much of the process--including the archiving of older content; a web application that allows you to publish and archive content with little-to-no web programming or design experience.

Blog Administrator – the one who controls the blog: invites and (un)invites people to post, controls comment settings, modifies the template, style sheets, and page elements.

Blog Poster/Contributor – someone who has access to post entries to a blog, and to go back and edit them; usually invited to contribute, and does not have administrative rights by default.

Blogroll - a list of other blogs you read, posted as a collection of links on your blog.

Bookmarklet – a widget provided on a website that you place on your bookmark bar or in your IE favorites, often created by a Web 2.0 product provider to facilitate your ability to use their service (like adding a webpage to your social bookmarking account)

Comments – feedback for a blog entry; settings often need to be modified to reduce or eliminate spam.

Domain Mapping – using your own registered domain (URL) to publish a blog or wiki while using a hosted blog or wiki service for the actual posting and management.

Enclosure – the link in the podcast RSS feed to the actual media file.

Extension – a widget created as an add-on for a browser, most commonly Firefox; often more powerful than bookmarklets, but may be harder to install on computers with tight administrative control.

Folksonomy – user-generated collection of tags (taxonomy) on a social bookmarking or media file-sharing site; unlike a controlled vocabulary environment, synonyms and word variants like plurals exist independently in a folksonomy and are not combined or mapped

Hosted Blog – a blog maintained on a third-party domain (blogspot.com) as opposed to downloading the blogging software to maintain the whole thing on your own website; some offer a domain or custom mapping option.

Hosted Wiki – a wiki maintained on a third-party domain (pbwiki.com) as opposed to downloading the wiki software to maintain the whole thing on your own website; some offer a domain or custom mapping option. AKA “wiki farm”

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) - the original markup language of websites; the series of tags that give rise to lists, tables, frames, hyperlinks, paragraphs, linebreaks, and let you change text by size, color, font, bolding, italics....

JavaScript – programming language heavily used in Web 2.0 technologies; RSS feeds can be converted into JavaScript to be displayed as headlines on blogs, webpages, etc.

Mashup – combining web applications to create new ways of combining and repurposing content.

Page Elements – umbrella term for the non-posting content of a blog: recent posts, archive, category list, calendar, blogroll, RSS reader/feed options, free text, and widgets.

Permalink - the unique URL for a particular blog entry, so you can refer back to it or direct others to it by email or your blog.

Podcast – one in a series of media files that can be distributed with an RSS feed, analogous to a blog—with each entry an MP3 or another media file; podcasting is the act of recording these files for RSS syndication; podcast feeds can be captured in ordinary RSS readers or iTunes.

RSS Feed (also Atom, webfeed, etc.) - XML files that push/deliver content from blogs, news sites, journals and other web sites without the user having to check those sites repeatedly for the new content; there are several RSS specifications (1.0, 2.0), as well as Atom. For wikis, e-mail notifications might be preferable. RSS feeds can also deliver media content (----casting).

RSS Reader - an application that allows you to subscribe to the RSS feeds of those websites; the reader checks the sites for updates and brings the new content back for you to read, with links back to the original site.

Sandbox - a place on your website, internal or external, to play with and test out new tools and technologies.

Style Sheet – the presentation elements of a website, separated from the structural elements--often placed on a separate webpage; a way to designate universal style commands instead of using repeated HTML tags. May also be referred to as CSS (cascading style sheet), and the ability to customize the CSS in a blog or wiki environment depends on the software and level of access.

Social Bookmarking – Saving and sharing your webpage/website bookmarks with others by creating a public, online version of a browser bookmark collection; social bookmarking sites allow users to tag what their adding to the collection, encouraging discovery by tag as well as by user; annotation and highlighting features may also be available. Variations include social citation and social clipping/annotation tools.

Social Software – broadly, any web site/service that allows, facilitates and encourages sharing and collaboration. Examples include social bookmarking and resource sharing sites like del.icio.us and flickr, document collaboration sites like Google Docs, and social sharing/connecting sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Syndication – making web content available as an RSS feed.

Tag Cloud – visual representation of a folksonomy, with the most popular tags larger and bolder.

Tags – the words and phrases selected by the user to describe a website or webpage they are bookmarking, or file they are uploading to a media sharing site; since there’s not attempt to control or organize the tags, it’s common to see word variants (model, models, modeling), synonyms, and related words among the tags.

Trackback – usually part of blog entry footer, tracks who has linked to that entry.

Template – the framework of the blog that controls things like header and footer information for each entry, as well as the page elements; may also include the style elements if not included separately; the amount of access you have to the template depends on the blogging software, but you can often make changes to the template using drag-and-drop options and not going "under the hood."

“Under-the-Hood” – Teri’s expression for getting to the raw markup code (template) and style sheets of a blog, where you can make handcoded changes; not every blogging option allows even the administrator to access this level.

Web 2.0 - the ubiquitous phrase that has come to define internet tools and technologies that emphasize collaboration, sharing, and communicating in a user-centered environment; includes tools like blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, folksonomies, Skype, Flickr, YouTube. (see Tim O'Reilly's article: Levels of the Game, for some additional distinctions among these and other Web 2.0 tools).

Widgets – enhancements created by third parties that you can use to add features or functionality to your blog such as a search engine; this is often a chunk of code that you can copy or insert easily.

Wiki – web software that allows multiple users to add, edit, delete, and organize content on the web in real time

• Notification – alerts of pages being updated, either e-mail or RSS feeds.

• Page – a unit of content in a wiki. Pages can be created using the wiki’s “New Page” feature, then edited, linked to and from other pages within the wiki, and even deleted. Instead of pages being organized into folders like a typical website, each page is simply an extension of the wiki homepage (http://name.wiki.com/page)

• Page History (also Revisions or Changelog) – the ability to access the previous saved versions of a wiki page. Various versions can be compared to each other, and an older version can be set as the current copy.

• Recent Changes – a more macro- version of Page History, this allows you to see a list of pages in order of the ones most recently updated.

Wiki Farm – another name for a company that hosts blogs on their server (pbwiki.com),

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor – The create/edit post interface that allows you to add “HTML” elements to your blog post without knowing the actual HTML tags required, including some or all of the following: tables, lists, images, hyperlinks, blockquoting and text alignment, font changes, color elements; may also include a spell-checker.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) – the markup language of RSS feeds; similar to HTML in that content is framed by tags (author, title, date, etc.) and an intermediate application is used to read the content—like using a web browser to read HTML pages.