en route to the sun

Well, I just found some interesting index as to top 100 Australian Blogs. It might be helpful for me to take a close look at the features of the best blogs in developing and benchmarking.
Here are the first 5 blogs on the list:
1. Problogger
2. The Inquisitr
3. Digital Photography School
4. gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
5. Gizmodo Australia
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I don’t think I can explain more thoroughly than Darren Rowse, who is the blogger of ‘Problogger‘ making living on blogs as a full time blogger.
I know it look sluggish, I will just link his blog page here however.
MAKE MONEY BLOGGING

-cited from the blog, ‘Global Village‘
As people blog for different reasons, they also create different types of blogs, depending on their target audience and interest (Librari*s & ‘Blogs). Some examples of the classification types of blogs include:
Subject matter:
1. Politics, e.g. Donklephant
2. Fashion, e.g. Fashion Tribes
3. History, e.g. Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History
4. [...]

I extracted some explanation of blogging software from my essay.

Blogrolls:
many Weblogs also display blogrolls, lists of weblogs that their authors read regularly; through these lists occasional readers can find trusted “sources” that influence the thinking and writing of a particular Weblog author (Efimova & Fiedler 2004). These links are not only referrals to [...]

The authors of Blogging thoughts : personal publication as an online research tool (I’ve already posted about this article in another entry), Mortensen and Walker argue that ‘Weblogs are written continuously and published without being revised’, and add ‘Sometimes webloggers will revise posts later and republish them; other bloggers make it a matter of principle [...]

I found some good tips on blogging from the course reading,  ‘Blogging thoughts : personal publication as an online research tool‘ (download)
I explicitly quoted from the reading though, the order of words is not the same as in the article. I re-ordered and/or slightly changed words to be seen as a virtual conversation between me [...]

There are initially two ways that I can insert pictures onto my blog.
I guess, this is the easiest way to do it.
1. Click on the circled icon.

2. Click the browse button.

3. And simply click ‘the insert into post’ button on the bottom of the page.

Here’s another way to do it.
1. Click the ‘From URL’ button [...]

I decided to make a few ‘Howto’ series, as I thought it might be good to know the basic methods that I need for blogging before I actually get started, or in the future, these series of posts will pleasurably remind me of the skills and I won’t have to google all over again.
There are [...]