* Preliminaries, introduction

'You Blog!' That's what I originally wanted to call the course, but cooler heads prevailed. Here's the original course description:

Yes, you--putting a toe into the Ocean of Blog. You'll visit some personal web logs on line and then create your own, using templates on a free site--that's the easy part. The rest is figuring out what things you want to write and how best to deal with your subjects. The instructor is no computer genius, but he can help with strategies for creating light, personal sketches and journal entries and generally starting you on your first blog.


I was shooting for something informative, but non-institutional. Something that might make the reader smile, might make the reader slow down--something that might make the reader say: "Too weird for me." Or: "Interesting...."

In other words, the description was what the real estate agents call a qualifier. If it didn't work for you, you probably would never arrive at the website.

And this website? More of the same. If the tone and style and content don't work for you, probably the course won't.