Blogging 101

Web Authoring: the course this site was designed for.
Rutgers University Website: duh.
Dreamweaver: website for Macromedia Dreamweaver, the program I used to design this site.
Blogger: website for Blogger, a weblog tool you will be learning to use here.
Pyra Labs: corporate website for Pyra, the company that made Blogger. There's not much to look at here right now.
An Incomplete Annotated History of Weblogs: the name says it all.
NCSA What's New, June 1993: the oldest archived example of what later came to be known as the blog.
Robot Wisdom: the weblog of Jorn Barger, the man who coined the term "weblog".
Weblogs: A History and Perspective @ Rebecca's Pocket: another site focusing on the history of the weblog.
Living in the Blog-osphere: a Newsweek article about blogging.
Weblogging, the trees fight back: an Economist article about blogging.
Blogs helping cartoonists draw a bigger audience: another article, this one from the San Jose Mercury News, that talks about blogging and cartoonists.
Web gives a voice to Iranian women: another article, in BBC News
Time to blog on : an article at MediaGuardian.com
My blog, my self: yet another article, this one from C|Net News.
blogger news archive: an archive of blogger related news.
blogskins.com: a site that hosts templates to make your blogger blog prettier.

tri-max: here's a blogger template i made, hosted at blogskins.com. it took me a couple of hours, and it serves to show you that template designing isn't as scary as it looks.
skinning specs: a page with the technical specifications for making a blog template. we're going to discuss this in the advanced placement page, when we get there.
random blog link: give it a spin. you'll like it.
pawhosting: an excellent, high-rate, low-cost webhosting service.
grey matter: a blogging tool similar to blogger but much harder to use. we won't be learning how to use grey matter here, but i'll include this link in advanced placement in case you want to give it a shot yourself.
movable type: another blogging tool, that allows much more control than blogger but is more complex as well.
blogcomp: what hostpile is to webhosts, blogcomp is to blogging tools.
bloggy opinions: submit your blog here to have it reviewed. not recommended for the thin-skinned.
blog*spot: a site dedicated to hosting your blog. the only two setbacks are that it works with blogger only, and you get only one page per blog, with no space for images or other files.