Just been reminded that today I’ve got to go and talk to a group of students from Central St Martins about blogs. I have very little idea of what they’re expecting from me, so I’ve scribbled a checklist of semi-technical issues that new bloggers might find themselves needing to think about.
- Allow comments or not?
- Single or multiple authors? Show identity of individual post authors or use a collective identity?
- Allow themselves to make some off topic posts (the blogs in question will all be fashion focussed)?
- Frequency and length of posts.
- Post-publication editing and updates. ‘Stealth’ editing.
- Searchability, both within the blog itself and from web search engines.
- Update notification services.
- Tags (as in Technorati not as in HTML).
- RSS.
- Trackbacks and pingbacks.
- Linking to other sites and especially to other links. Permalinks for inbound links (and finding permalinks when linking out to blogs).
Have I missed anything? I’m not there to give them technical advice on LiveJournal/Blogger/Word Press/whatever they’re using, nor am I there to give design advice.
Very True Mood: 
surprised
surprised
Everybody’s doing it nowadays aren’t they? A couple of days ago, my mum even said she wanted one! She had no idea what it was, of course, but she wanted one anyway.
Which kind of sounds a bit like the attutude of your fash studes…