Commenting (for portfolio assignment)

By now, I’ve received several messages from you, with the URLs for your blogs. I’m already reading interesting insights about what draws you to popular culture. I’ll get to that in another post, or in comments on your blogs.

What I really want to address now is a logistical matter. In the syllabus, you’re asked to comment on someone else’s blog regularly. One of you asked if those comments were going to be posted on your blogs, or on the other person’s blog. I now have an answer for that. You’ll be posting them on YOUR blog, but make sure that you include a link to the original post. The link will set off a pingback, and your comment will appear on the other person’s blog as a link.

Filed under: Course matters, Blogging, Blogs, Course matters, How to

Embedding video on WordPress

In class today, someone asked me about embedding video into posts. If it’s from youtube, it’s actually very simple. All you need to do is click on the upload/insert button, paste the video’s URL and voila! you’ve got video. However, if you’re embedding from another service, like Vimeo, it’s a pain. It took me about half an hour to figure it out, and only after I stumbled on this post by Will Wolf-Myren.

This is collective intelligence at work. Thanks  Will, because I don’t have to re-invent the wheel.  You already have it all categorized and ready to go.

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