Wicked Site: Glogster

So my guess is if you're reading this, you have a blog. Or at least you know what blogging is. Or you're Amish, 100 years old, or just now leaving Liveunderarock and staring at the screen and wondering what the hell this fancy contraption is. (If you really are that lost please click here to see a definition of blogging.)Glogging is like blogging with more Gs and less Bs. Alphabetically anyway. Really the two are very similar but glogging uses more pictures than words. It's like getting a virtual piece of paper and adding pictures, music, videos, and graphics to it. Sure you can do a bit of the same thing on your blog, but it's a heck of a lot easier on glogster. (See example in previous blog entry.)

The upsides.

+When you're done, your finished product sometimes looks like it could be in a magazine. Which I find kind of cool.

+You can easily share your glog with family and friends. (You can even post your glog to Blogger right after publishing it.)

+You can post just about any kind of media on your glog.

+It's really helpful if you want creative way to blog, but often have writers block, or words just don't seem to do your "genius" justice.

The downsides.

+There are a ton of graphics and fonts to choose from, but you can't really create your own on their site. (Though you might be able to upload them in the form of a picture.)

+You can't save your work as you go along. This can be really bad if you're like me and you always have a ton of windows open and  accidently navigate away from pages a lot. (Thank you blogger for auto-saving for me!)

+There's a ridiculous G point system. It's basically just to motivate users to be active on their site. For the most part you can ignore it, but you won't be able to start new topics on Glogster's message boards if you don't have enough G points.

+Also whenever you go to the home page, you'll notice a lot of people just post a big photograph with depressing song lyrics and/or poetry. (Maybe because there's an entire category of graphics dedicated to "Emo." Can some one please explain this Emo trend to me?)

Check it out here.