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Works like del.ic.ious but offers more flexibility in its utilities. You can add buttons to your menu bar and tag posts immediately.  Categories are extensive and supplement those found in other social bookmarking utilities.  (more…)

When you are writing a new post, on the side of the screen you will see a
list of your categories. Simple remove the checkmark from the general
category and place a checkmark in the category of your choice.

Did you ever wonder how to tidy up the URLs which have messy search strings which look like this ?page_id=# ? Well you can use permalinks.

What is a post slug? Actually, it’s just the page name used for your URL if you are using permalinks. By default, your post slug will automatically be your page title, however this can be change in the “Write Page”. I would strongly advise you to change your post slug for your pages if you have page title like “Adding a border to your image using Adobe Photoshop”. The reason being your permalinks will be too long. Instead, use a shorter URL like “adding-border” will be much better.

Go to bookmarks on the dashboard, import bookmarks.

Follow instructions from our course by going to the Steven Downes site. In brief here:

2. Create an OPML file using Stephen Downes' OPML Generator. Select a couple of RSS feeds that you'd like to package together and use this generator to generate an OPML file containing those feeds. All it takes to generate an OPML on Stephen's generator is to provide a name for your file, your name, your email address, the number of feeds you'd like in the OPML file, and finally the feed URLs. Once the generator says "success", you're done! Save the file to your computer then try and add it to your aggregator. A

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How to Assign a Post to a Category

When you are writing a new post, on the side of the screen you will see a
list of your categories. Simple remove the checkmark from the general
category and place a checkmark in the category of your choice. Source:

 Why can't I find where my blog feed is?  What does it look like as a feed address?  

In Blogspot it would look something like this. 

yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SLIC [School Library Information Centre] Current is my knowledge management blog which is gathering Web 2.0 topics and applications. I'm writing this for a larger audience who might want to learn how to create a similar blog.