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.

Link to second blog

Well, I have no patience when it comes to creating these things apparently. I fell I should forewarn you, it's a bit orangey, as I also ran out of patience searching for  template. Perhaps I shouldn't be getting on the internet late at night. I finally decided to call it "Three Flights Down" though the url has to have "-"s in-between the words cause some loser already took the normal url and then never even posted anything. Oh, well. Now I can get back to making this blog somewhat cool. Oh, right, here's the link. Though I'm sure it's on my profile by now.

Experiencing a Shortage of Title Names Currently

So I've decided to make another blog where I can post all the icky personal drama in my life. That way I can still you this one to write about cool stuff, and I won't feel like I'm coming off as an angsty person, cause I'll have this blog to redeem myself. I think this means I won't be able to post everyday, I'm aiming more towards the 5-4 days every week range.  I just have to come up with a name for my second blog... this is where I get stuck. Doodles from A Dream was the name of a mix CD a made back in middle school and lost before I could listen to it. So I've had the awesome cover art (awesome by my middle school standards) sitting around (somewhere) with no CD to go with it for years. I think I google the phrase and nothing else really seemed to have the name, so thats how I came up with it. I'm thinking the next name should come from music, and I've got some ideas, but I have to think it over for a little while. Or at least until I get spontaneous.

Success!

I finally figured out the template thing, though it was quite confusing for a while there. Although my link lists are gone, But luckily I saved my counter. I'm thinking I'll be going back to posting cool stuff I find and random doodles. I'm thinking of getting another blog and making it more of a personal thing, of course that would mean then having to up date two blogs (technically three, though the last one is super easy) This one could be the cool one...  Maybe that'll happen this weekend... or during the week if I can't sleep. On the upside, (though I don't think I was on the downside) I found a bunch of new sites this long weekend so I have a fresh list of cool things to write about. I feel like saying kowabunga but that would make no sense at all, plus I don't even think that's spelled correctly. Oh well, why start making sense now? Kowabunga.