Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Second Studio: URL's, Lurking and Pictures

Second studio

Uploading pictures and become a lurker(1).

+Email the url of your blog site to your tutors so that you can be linked to the main blogosphere site. (The specifics on how to do this will be clarified at the beginning of this session and outlined on the blogosphere site) this means we can start lurking.

+ Upload the picture that you have from your last semester project. Add that to the written post that you have already blogged. (help files are online but i have pasted these for you below)

+ Find a blog network and become a lurker

Reading blogs and looking at social networks without having any participation into that net work is called “lurking” this task introduces you to this concept.

+Research blogs of interest (relevant to your work) and choose three of the best.
+Embed the hyperlink of these three sites into your post (to do this find this icon on you “make a new post” page > )
+Write a brief overview 50-100 max words of your favorite THREE. (That’s no more than 100 words covering all three sites)
What information is conveyed and how these link together? What information is on the site, why does it interest you, how did you find them?
What’s the Look, vibe, style, stance or point?

+Add a list of labels to describe what you have found. (Labels link back to the keywords you use in your post)

(1) “Many modern Internet communities now advise newbies to lurk for some time to get a feel for the specific culture and etiquette of the community, lest they make an inappropriate or redundant comment, ask a Frequently Asked Question, or incite a flame war. This leads to the tongue-in-cheek command to "lurk moar". The verb to "de-lurk" means to start contributing actively to a community having been a lurker previously.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker

Google Help > Blogger Help > Multi-Media Blogging > Images

How do I post pictures?

You can now upload photos to your blog(s) using Blogger Images; just click the image icon in the post editor's toolbar.

When you click this icon, you'll get a window that allows you to select an image or multiple images from your computer. Click the Browse button to locate the ones you want. Alternatively, you can enter the URL of an image that's already online and insert it into your post.

If you click the link to choose a layout, you can customize the way your images will appear in your post:

The left, center and right options determine how the text of your post flows around the pictures. The size option lets you scale the pictures to different sizes within this posting area. Note that the picture will still be uploaded in its full size; this option just determines how it's scaled within the content of your post.

Alternatively, you can post images to your blog using Mail-to-Blogger. This feature allows you to email posts with image attachments directly to your blog. For more information about Mail-to-Blogger, please see this article.

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Here is the help file if you want to upload images from your flickr accounts
Google Help > Blogger Help > Multi-Media Blogging > Images

How do I post pictures from Flickr?

Blogger now supports image uploading for all users, but we also know that a lot of people have Flickr accounts as well. So if you'd like to post pictures using Flickr, here's how.

(Prerequisite reading: Flickr Help, How do I get the URL of a photo?)

First, you'll need to create an account at flickr, a web-based photo sharing service created by our friends up in Vancouver. Once you've logged into Flickr, add your Blogger blog to your Flickr account. (we're just covering photo-blogging in this tutorial, but there's plenty more cool stuff to configure and do at Flickr, too)

There are several ways to send photos to Flickr. One is to use the slick Mac uploader, which lets you drag and drop batches of photos to be uploaded. Another is to use the web uploader. A third is to email them to Flickr—you can even tell Flickr to automatically post emailed photos to your blog!

Once you've added a photo to Flickr, you can visit that photo's page and Blog it:

Blog This - Flickr

Other photo-sharing sites that support Blogger:

Have fun!