Voice

There was a huge difference in reading the essay, and watching it being read on the "Late Show with David Letterman" clip. In reading the essay, it was harder to tell the tone, even though you knew it was humorous, it was much funnier watching the clip, where Sedakis was able to show the full emotion of the essay. I do think the laughter of the audience was what kept him going, in an effort to appear even more humorous.

Vooks

I just read the first article for this week's assignments. I am bothered by the whole idea of vooks, and other electronic items such as the Kindle, for two reasons.

One: I like to read, I always have. I'm the type of person who goes to the library once every 3 weeks and comes home with a gigantic pile of books. Every night, when I'm done watching some late night comedy, I stay up until 1:30-2am reading a book. Vooks would ruin that for me.

Two: I spend enough time throughout the day on the computer, getting headaches from looking at the screen... I wouldn't want to spend more time looking at a small screen reading a book.

It might be nice to have videos in addition to the book, but to have it be necessary, or the means of reading the book, isn't a good idea to me.

Drupal

Once I got my webhosting all sorted, I installed the newest version of Drupal available. I personally found more resources online for Drupal than with Joomla, and even a whole website dedicated to Drupal websites, http://www.drupalsites.net/.

Maybe I'm setting my goals way too high right now, but I do not understand how to make any Drupal site look as good as the ones showcased on that site. I can't even figure out how to make custom links just yet. I have to do more research....

Heatheronline.?

Last night I was on hostmonster, checking out domain names before I buy one.
I wanted something simple with my name in it, since this is my first domain name.

I looked up "Heatheronline" to see what was available. The .com suffix was already taken, even though it's a basic site that's not even in use right now. However, four are available, .org, .info, .biz, and .us. I did some research last night, and found out that both the .info and .us suffixes are available for public use, have no restrictions such as the .edu suffix for educational purposes, and .mil for military purposes. I also found out that there are new web suffixes that have recently been put in use, such as .aero for the Air Transportation industry, and .coop for co-operatives.

I will be buying my new domain name soon.

What Makes for a Good Blog?

Good blogs have a voice.
Good blogs reflect focused obsessions.
Good blogs are the product of “Attention times Interest.”
Good blog posts are made of paragraphs.
Good “non-post” blogs have style and curation.
Good blogs are weird.
Good blogs make you want to start your own blog.
Good blogs try.
Good blogs know when to break their own rules.

I agree with all the statements made in that article. All the blogs I've ever seen have had a specific purpose, whatever the user's hobby might be, anything, ranging from sports, to tv shows, to web design, on any other hobby. A good blogger, or any person conversing on the internet, should have good typing skills. People get annoyed very quickly by people who type in chat speak and can not put a complete sentence together correctly. However, a good blog can be done without a load of words, as many photographers can use their blog as an online portfolio.

Either way, the main way to attract attention to a blog is simple, be creative!

I haven't kept up on this

I'm a little confused as to what to do with this to be honest. I understand how blogging works of course, but I really just don't know what to blog about. I haven't forgotten about this however, and I will check out that link in the email tomorrow and post an update.

CMS and Webhosting

I'm currently searching for inexpensive webhosting services to use for my NET 116 class. This is what I've found so far.

Drupal:
http://www.drupalvaluehosting.com/members/order.php : $10 a month, 9000 GB bandwidth, 2000 GB diskspace
http://www.site5.com/: Unlimited everything, 7.95 a month
http://www.hostmonster.com/: Unlimited everything, 6.95 a month

Joomla:
http://www.chimehost.com/web_hosting/web_hosting_plan2.html : $4.95 a month, unlimited traffic and diskspace
http://vexxhost.com/hosting.htm : $2.55 a month, 10000 GB data transfer, 1000 GB space
http://www.powweb.com/powweb/hosting.bml : $4.88 a month, unlimited traffic and space
https://www.fastdomain.com/hosting.html : $6.95 a month