Due Monday: A blogroll on your site with links to our main course weblog and to all the student weblogs from this course, and an aggregator feed from a site of your choice. (This should be different from our in-class example.)
On Wednesday we got through most of our tasks to make sure your weblogs have their interactive features enabled. At this point you should have set your weblog so that users can leave comments and “pings” on your site without need for you to approve comments.
Someone should have tested your site and left at least one comment, someone else one ping. Please check your site and make sure you see these things. If not, ask a neighbor to try to leave a comment and a ping now so you can be sure your site works properly. If there are problems, please check with me.
Today we will set up a blogroll and an aggregator feed on your site.
A blogroll is a list of links to other blogs that sits in your sidebar. It is usually used to provide you and your visitors a way to find information you find useful (for whatever reason).
An aggregator feed is a specially formatted part of a weblog that allows other people to capture and republish what someone else is posting on their website.
We will talk in more detail about each of these tools later on. For now I want to show you some examples and to show you how to set up these tools on your own site.
Here are some example sites:
