Relish The Choices...I Challenge Y O U!

Several of you have asked me about the origin of my web site.
In our St. Pete Times the Monday edition has an insert called
Tech Times and is all kinds of computer info.
In September there was an article called...Blog Bonanza and part of the info is as follows:


Web logs, or blogs, are the personal pages that some say will change the way we communicate. But the digital diaries can range from insightful to insipid.
A blog is a personal Web Page. There are as many different types of blogs as they are different books on Amazon.con.
Blogs can be personal journals or they can be someone’s opinions on the news of the day. They can be used for business including sharing notes from meetings written as they happen. Groups with a common interest, such as computer geeks or journalists or fans of particular sports or TV shows, can share information through blogs. Most have links to other blogs. While blogs have been around for a few years, Sept. 11 spawned new interest, as people wanted to share information through blogs. One of the trademarks of the blog is that they are made up mostly of short items, easy to write and supposedly easy to read.
In short, blogs can be anything bloggers want them to be.
“Everyone truly needs a place on the Internet that they can call their home page, a place where they reside,” said John Robb, president and chief operating officer of Userland, which makes blog software called Radio. “It’s space controlled by the individual. No one has the ability to publish counterarguments. You won it. You own the space.”
“If people are interested in reading what I’m thinking, it’s passive,” Robb said. “They can come or not. They can read at their convenience.”

Blogs also are a lot easier to set up than a personal Web page used to be, when users had to learn coding and other tricks to
set up their page.
Most blogs can be set up for free.
The power of the blog comes from the fact that anyone can do it and use it for just about any purpose.
RaeAnneThompson, (www.paper-rose.diaryland.com/)a Spring Hill blogger says...“It is fascinating to read other blogs....”It’s definitely a way of seeing what’s out there” For me it is a writing release. Then, maybe someone will read this and know they are not alone. That I, too, have a husband who is a workaholic, that I, too, have teenage problems, that I, too, am a nut case.” She laughs easily about her blog and the friends who read it. “No matter where you live, we’re all just human beings,” she said. “We have the same fears, the same problems. We just help each other. And by sharing, that helps.”

WEB SITES FOR BLOGS:
Building Blogs:
www.blogger.com...A site where you can set up a blog for free.
www.diarist.net...Resource portal for online diaries
www.pitas.com...Free basic software for blogging
www.userland.com....Maker of Radio software for blogs
www.weblogger.com....A blog directory with paid hosting tools.

To my family and friends:
NOW I CHALLENGE Y O U.....If I can do it....anyone can.
My web page is completely free of cost and I use www.blogger.com as my server. Their format is so simple and easy like your word processing program. Just follow their easy steps to set up your page. They have template samples with all colors and shapes in their pages for you to choose from. After you get set up you can experiment more. I’m still learning...Also, you can just click on the above link in this page....where it says...Start your own blog spot....and it will take you exactly where you need to start! It is that easy!

One suggestion, their posting page does not have a spell check program....since it is free....so I write my blog on my Microsoft Word program in order to use spell check....and then copy it and paste it to my blogger page for editing....they do have a Blogger.pro format that is better for a small fee and it has a spell check program. It also allows for pictures, clip art, etc. but I have not fully investigated this program yet. Plan to in the New Year.

Start your own family information web page. Send me your address.....It is fun.

Relish the choices we have in America.....Unlimited....plain and simple.
Now I just have to go to these many choices in the stores...and choose my Christmas gifts......with JOY!!!

Give your family a free web page of Love....from Y O U....to them....DAILY.....or WEEKLY.
I D A R E Y O U!!!

Happy Blogging:)