Favicon

Favicon is the image that appears in your tab and on your url when you are on a site. on Blogger its just an orange and white capital 'B.'  But to customize it so your blog is unique you can go to FaviconGenerator.com. Which is what i did to create my favicon.

Spring Widgets App

Spring Widgets is an app that provides you with the most popular and most helpful widgets. These widgets can be put on your blog, profile, or homepage. it also gives you an option to create your own widgets to help you out with your personal wants and needs.

Addictomatic App

Addictomatic is to assit people in locating information on the web on any topic, event, or subject.  It gives them the most recent information too. It also gives them links to sites about the topic you search. And the main page also gives you recent and most searched topics.

App vs. Web

Blogger has an app. There are many differences and similarities, but the web is what I would choose to use. The web version has many more options. You can see your gadgets and blog list on the screen on the web but with the app, you can't. The app has a few shortcuts to where you can do some things faster, but there are only a fe of those. The web allows you more access to things about your blog.

Symbaloo

Symbaloo is a web site where you can create your own tiles, in which can be your short cuts to the sites you visit daily. Like Facebook, and Twitter. You can also search web mixes of things you like and add them to your Symbaloo. This may benefit a lot of people because instead of going to the url and typing each website over, and over, again, you can set it as your home page and everything you routinely go to is right there.

Gadgets

One gadget i have is a fish tank. This isn't for educational purposes, but more for entertainment.

View Stats

All of my page views have been from the United States. 50% Have used Safari, 38% have used Firefox, 5% have used chrome, and 5% Have used UniversalFeedParser. THe systems that have been used to view my blog are Macintosh, Windows, and Linux.

Blog Guidelines.

1. Thou shall not confuse thy opinion with gospel truth. There is a strong temptation, particularly when discussing contentious issues, to claim unimpeachable authority on the subject at hand. Yes, everybody is entitled to express personal opinions, but by treating your blog or wiki like a panel rather than a pulpit, the dialogue will more likely be divine.

2. Thou shall not invoke personal attacks. One of the magical powers blogs and wikis seem to possess is the capability of turning otherwise sensible people into bickering schoolchildren. Unless the discussion subject is "Say something insulting about somebody who holds a different opinion than you," leave the personal invective out. Rule of thumb: Argue with the post, not the poster.

3. Thou shall stick to the subject at hand. Blogs in particular can get tangential in a hurry. To some, that's part of the charm - you start with an idea and end up somewhere completely different. That's all well and good, but let tangents arise organically within the context of the discussion. If you've got something wildly off topic to say, start a new thread or keep it to yourself until it becomes relevant.

4. Thou shall cite thy references. As we all know, people can come up with statistics to prove anything; 40 percent of all people know that. So, set yourself apart from the herd by showing where you get your facts. You'll look knowledgeable, honest, and trustworthy. What's not to like about that?

5. Thou shall punctuate and capitalise. We're not saying you should write every post with one eye on The Chicago Manual of Style, but writing several paragraphs as one gigantic, all-lowercase, run-on sentence is a definite no-no. As is writing in ALL CAPS, WHICH IS LIKE SHOUTING! Punctuation is your friend, so use it.

6. Thou shall own up to thy mistakes. Despite online chest-puffing to the contrary, nobody's perfect. You are going to make mistakes. You are going to be wrong about things. Instead of being defensive and denying it, just admit your blunder and move on. If you have the urge to browbeat somebody about making a mistake, refer to the second commandment.

7. Thou shall not use aliases or sock puppets. If you have to invent a separate identity in order to create the illusion of agreement, then perhaps your point isn't as good as you think it is. Although it's tempting to play games with the pseudo-anonymity the internet provides, it's far better to stick with one identity.

8. Thou shall not feed the trolls. When people spew insults, pick fights, or take contrarian positions just for the sake of being contrary, ignore them. Insulting online miscreants or engaging them in arguments accomplishes nothing, it just further pollutes the pages with pointless back-and-forth.

9. Thou shall resize thy images. Remember, not everybody has screamingly fast broadband connections like you, and not everybody has the patience to wait for that huge picture of your pet iguana to download. Plus, margin-breaking pictures are just plain annoying.

10. Thou shall respect the old adage: What happens on the wiki stays on the wiki. It's wonderful how blogs and wikis can provide you with new knowledge, insight, and perspective, and you should certainly carry what you learn with you when you leave your computer. But all the bickering, arguing, correcting, and other antics it took to get there? Leave those behind. There is no need to bring your wiki-capades home with you.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/internet/9550/blog-etiquette-top-10-dos--donts/?pn=2

Basic guidelines for bloggers

• Never offer any personal information including your last name, contact information, home address, phone numbers, school's name, e-mail address, last names of friends or relatives, instant messaging names, age, or birth date.

• Never post provocative pictures of yourself or anyone else, and be sure any images you provide do not reveal any of the previously mentioned information. Always remember to look at the background of a picture too.

•  Assume what you publish on the Web is permanent. Anyone on the Internet can easily print out a blog or save it to a computer.

• Use blogging provider sites with clearly stated terms of use, and make sure they can protect the actual blogs, not just the user accounts, with password protection. (Even so, it's better to assume anyone can see it.)

• Avoid trying to "outdo" or compete with other bloggers.

• Keep blogs positive and don't use them for slander or to attack others.

http://blog.safetyweb.com/

Schedule Test.

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My First Blog Post:)

Hi I'm Laurel. People call me Larrel. I live in Abilene, Kansas. And I am a freshman in highschool.