Assignment #1

What is a blog?
Blog = "Web log" is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual,with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Why a blog? What does it offer?
It's an easy an fast way to provide or read commentary or news on a particular subject online; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic.
What are the different access levels or roles in managing?
There is an administrator that has the power to allow what is going to stay published and who is going to stay as a user of the blog site.
How can blogs be used? What's in it for me?
Blogs can be used as :
Personal Blogs, Corporate Blogs, Question Blogging, By Media Type, By Device, By Genre.

I'm not so sure that I want to set a blog but if I do, I will use it to communicate with friends and it will be a two-way communication.
If I create a site of my own the blog will be on my site, and I will be the blog administrator.
Right now I can't devote to much time to this task that's why I don't know if I will decide to have a blog.

S&E Browsing Collection

An embedded spreadsheet from Google Docs.

Mouse Echocardiography

How to image mice with high frequency ultrasound.

Anyone that is interested in this field.

Two-way communication.

Alaskan Klee Kai Puppy Found New Home!

This puppy is 8 weeks old. He will be 10-20 pounds when fully grown. He will look like a mini husky. He will be going to live with a family in Alaska!

brave new blogging

It always interesting to be confronted with what seems to be your native language, and allegedly a language you understand, only to find yourself wandering through a forest of new terms, new words and new concepts. The mind races to comprehend, struggles to keep up while despair and confusion clutch and grab, trying to bring you down. The question was posed: why blog? The best response seems to be because it's there.

Today is Thursday, August 2008
Blogging is all new to me!

AW Smart Heart Walk

The purpose of my blog is to generate donations for the Heart Walk 5K on September 20th! This posting is intended for anyone who has experienced losing a loved one to heart disease. I would hope that everyone will share their stories of survival and loss with others in hope to make a difference. We can beat this thing! Two way communication.

Purpose of my blog

I would like to possibly use a blog for BFS (Bus & Fin Svces)/ Bus Affairs regarding our surveys (especially marketing the UCSD Student Satisfaction Survey). I'm also interested in using a blog personally as a writer and also with family/friends.

Purpose of my blog will be ...

The purpose of my blog will be to share academic information with my classmates. We'll use a two-way communication.

Friends in touch....

This blog was born to...

• Comunicate with my friends far away on a two-ways format


• Post pictures


• See pictures posted by my friends


• Post and recibe contributions about interesting general information


• Post and recibe contributions about good travel deals


• Post and recibe contributions about delicious and simple recipies

I don't want to blog

I just want to keep up with newer technology and be aware of what's out there.

Echocardiography-Mice

I want to set-up a blog to inform about echocardiography in mice.

Anyone interested in cardiac ultrasound in mice.

Anyone with experience with mice echocardiography.

Two-way communication.

Mice surgery

I want to set up a blog to the group of people interested in small animal surgery. Everybody interested in this subject can contribute. This is one way communication.

New to Blogging

This is my first time posting to a Blog

Lucky Ducky's reasons for blogging

I want to set up a blog to share news with members of a social club to which I belong. It will be used to disseminate information such as upcoming events and other news of interest. I would like all members to contribute, to use it as a mechanism to socialize online when they can't meet in person.

I want to blog to....

I want to blog to help out my department. I am the assistant to the Chair and I have to interact with all faculty and staff. Currently we are having communication issues amongst the faculty and staff and blogging and wikis may be very helpful to our department. There is no single medium that everyone in the department uses which is partly why there is a communication problem. I am hoping creating a department blog and wiki will help keep everyone on the same page and well informed of all the issues and tasks that are being worked on. I will probably be the holder and creator of the department blog. The Chair, Committee Chairs, MSO and myself will be managing and administrating the blog; whereas staff and faculty will be able to provide comments. There are a lot of ongoing projects that I have noticed everyone has an opinion on, and blogging will be perfect to provide that option as well as document it.

Teri's favorite new website

My favorite website is io9.

Exercise: I want a blog to....

If you didn't get a chance to accept the blog invitation but still want to write something during the workshop, add your answer here as a comment to this post.

Purpose of My Blog

I would like to provide information for departmental users on how to establish their userids, how affiliate users obtain access, forms for obtaining access-- all the many ways and means of departmental security administrators (DSAs) and their service to their departments.

Updates

In preparation for the August workshops, I have updated these pages (under 'Workshop Links').

• Web 2.0 Workshop Definitions
  
• Blogging Software Options
• Blogging Add-Ons and Blogger Resources
• RSS Resources
• Workshop RSS Reader (Public View)

I would like to post a blog for my residency training program on my web site. This would be useful for residents to express issues regarding clinical and academic experiences. I would like it to be dialogue used to enhance the educational experience of residency.

My Purpose

I want to set up a blog to create a record of my life. I would like to document important events and some of my daily activities. My intended audience would be people with similar interest as me and I would allow comments from people I know.

I want a blog to deliver departmental news to the EH&S department. Is it a better way to go than using Adobe GoLive to maintain an old-fashioned Web site?

I think it would be 1-way communication at first. Perhaps I could invite 2-way communication later. How serious is the spam problem?

Alumni Communication

I want to set up a blog to enhance communication between Rady constituents: alumni, staff, faculty and students. The intended audience will be primarily Rady alumni. The author would be a Rady staff member. Communication would be two-way.

Purpose of My Blog

I am thinking of a blog to relay information to fund managers & faculty assistants. I would like to have them be able to comment or provide insight on subjects that come up, ie new policies/procedures they have encountered. I would like two way communication.

I am considering setting up a blog....

1) To provide journalists with story tips and news from UC San Diego. In this case, there would be multiple contributors -- my colleagues in University Communications and Public Affairs. Ideally, the communication would be two-way but if the blog proved too attractive to pranksters and snarky commentators, it might have to become one-way.

and/or

2) To stay in touch with friends and family. Here, I would be the sole contributor and would hope for lively interaction with the intended audience.

Web 2.0

Two way communication is the primary goal for my blog. I would like to begin a blog to have discussions with students about what they are thinking and learning about.

My favorite new site

It's www.fantasticfiction.co.uk. Great place to look at authors and lists of books. Especially if I want to see what's in a series.

I want to set up a blog to...

... provide web administration and publishing information to web administrators and web content writers in the divisions of the Department of Medicine. Initially I'll be the only contributor, and others will post comments. I expect the communication to be two way. As I learn more about wikis, I may decide to use a wiki for this purpose instead.

We use a blog to post news for the Department of Medicine website -- UCSD IWDC set this up for us.

I want to set up a blog to

develop better communication with students and instructors. I want to set up 2 blogs. One is for the instructors that teach the courses in the program area I coordinate. The other will be for students to give me feedback on the instructors, content of courses and courses they would like to see offered. Communication would be two-way. I would be the administrator.

I want to set up a blog to....

My main reasons are to keep up with current technology, keep in contact with family for genealogical and personal purposes and to make contacts with other administrative assistants.
My intended audience is family, friends and coworkers.
I hope to get many contributors as well as myself.

I want to set up a blog to..

Seek suggestions to generate savings for expected budget cut.
The intended audience are UC community and anyone can contribute. The comunication will be two-way.

I want to set up a blog to...

Keep friends and family up to date about the happenings in my life. A lot of my friends, family, and co-workers currently use blogs, and I have been thinking about setting up my own blog for awhile now, but I haven't decided on the right software, etc. I would be the only contributor to my blog, but I would like to make a comment option available so that I can get feedback from readers.

Will see you guys on Thursday!

Hope to see sth. mind-blowing...

Blogging Add-Ons and Blogger Resources

RSS Compendium - lists of readers, RSS feeds, and resources to locate feeds and feed content. See also, The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources

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
• 100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS
  
• The top 1,000 feeds subscribed in Bloglines
  
• 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. There are other RSS converters available.
  
• Yahoo Pipes and RSS Mix (among others) allow you to mix feeds into a single, new feed.
• Feed Rinse creates a new feed by filtering out unwanted content based on authors, keywords, etc.
  
• 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

New Class

Getting Ready for the first Web 2.0 workshop of '08