Okay, well not a normal blog today. I have been reading others blogs and found a lot of talk about twitter, I signed up but I still can’t understand the craze. I was reading the blog Is twitter shifting blogging to a new phase,when I just had to laugh, the widgit on the side of the page said translate this page, I had a sudden urge to try it because the blog made no sense at-all to the computer illiterate fools like me. So I have watched the tutorial twitter in plain English, I know that twitter is all about keeping people up-to-date on what you are doing, but is it possible that someone can recommend me a good site to read which will explain this to me more fully. This seams to be a common theme amongst the advice pages on promoting blogs although the justification is often unclear.

Sorry this blog is more questions than answers but I’d really like to find out more!

I was discussing my blog with other students in my course when some-one mentioned they haven’t got any comments yet  their blog. It made me realise I had no idea how you find other blogs and how to generate interest in your blog. So far I have been connecting to others through my blog-roll and sheer dumb luck when I unexpectedly stumble on a fascinating blog.

I had a read of two recommended teacher’s blogs which deal with this issue. In batting for 1000+  Mrs W. talks about how in two months she has built a blog up so much that now she is getting over 1000 readers through her site. She uses twitter to generate interest and connect with like minded people on the web. She aldo cites reading  and commenting on other’s blogs as another important skill.

This brings me to the second part of the question, where do you find other relevant interesting blogs. In Why does technorati still mock me I learnt that there are blog search engines.  Sue Walters recommends visiting technorati and google blog search. Hopefully these will take the guesswork out of finding good blogs for me and make searching for blogs a skill rather than a lucky dip!