DigiTyped

"Ask yourself the following things and write your answers on your blog."

1. What significant experience did I have today?
2. What striking idea did I get from someone or cooked up myself today?
3. What was I reading today?
4. What was I listening to today?
5. Did I go to some place today? Where? Why?
6. What did I see on TV or the movies today that I liked or not?
7. Did I receive an email today? What was it about?
8. Did I find an interesting website article today? What is the URL? Why did I find it interesting?
9. Did I enter into an argument today? What was it about? Who shut up whom?
10. Do I have something to write about today? If none, why?

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Posting a picture with your WP Blog (like this one) is as easy as biting into a pie — even if you’re just wearing pustisos. You can do either of two things. Post a picture remotely, that is, use an external website where you have uploaded your pictures and reference these from your blog. Or upload a picture directly into your WP installation, and let WP itself give you the codes for referencing it.
Take this photo for example:

This photo is uploaded somewhere in the directories of this blog application. What I did was:

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So what can one blog about?  There are a lot of materials out there, just waiting to be used in a blog.  For a picture blog, one can use photos.  One can also use emails received, especially when these give the occassion for doing a personal research on the subject.  Still, somebody else’s blog can be the occassion for additional commentary.  The other day, for example, I read a blog about Hardee’s Moster Thickburger.  A lot of Filipinos haven’t heard of it yet, but what if this growing fast food chain reaches Philippine shores?  Just the thought should make one tremble especially since the food it provides is really junk.  Still, of course, the best materials come from one’s experiences.  One may blog about one’s dog, or even one’s birthday celebration!  The possibilities are endless!  Just look at the present blog, for example.  It is made up of links to other blogs!

How many kinds of blogs are there?
If by "kinds" you mean a clearly defined structure that is discernible in a blog making it distinguishable from another one and allows for categorization,  there isn’t one yet.  However, if one would categorize blogs according to the more dominant elements one finds in it, then one can perhaps consider the following "types"

• link blog - a blog that contains a link or more than one link and descriptions of each.
• moblog - a blog created through a mobile phone and usually is made up of pictures
• daily blog - a daily update about the author’s life: hobbies, school/work life
• news/politics blog - blogs that comment on news and political events
• war blog - one of the older types of blogs; these are updates from the trenches
• programmer’s blog - updates on what a programmer is doing with a software that he/she is creating.

… and she immediately gets 98.0 on her first assignment.
Blogging shouldn’t be a difficult thing to do especially since it does have the same requirements for formal writing. But as in formal writing, one needs good examples to emulate. Here are a few bloggers whose work I admire:

• A Sassy Lawyer’s Blogs http://www.houseonahill.net
• Torn and Frayed in Manila

What is a blog? Why do people blog? How does blogging help anyone become a better person? What benefits do one derive from blogging?
These are questions that aren’t easy to answer, so I’ll just give you links to those who have:
Wordpress’s "Intro To Blogs" is a great place to start. Then I suggest reading the Blog Guru of About.Com. Here is a link to her Weblogs FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)