Today’s blogging 101 prompt isn’t a prompt. In fact it doesn’t even require a post to your blog. Weird, huh?
Today we are being asked to follow five topics in the wordpress.com Reader (think of it as an RSS feed specific to wordpress.com) and to follow five blogs. Sounds easy enough.
You follow a topic by entering a tag into the Reader page. It then spits out posts with that tag. Seeing as I am tagging this post with Blogging101, and the photo posts with photo101, I will start with those two. Done and done.
I was a little disappointed to see the results of photo101. Most of the first batch of posts that were returned used photographs that were not taken on the day of the post. Granted, no where in the rules does it say you have to take today’s post’s picture today, but I’ve been doing that so far, and I hope to do it for the whole month. (having said that, I make no promise that any given day’s post will be made on the actual day the prompt is given. I absolutely reserve the right to push things off until I can get somewhere to take an appropriate picture. I’ll try to keep things in order though)
So what other tags can I follow in Reader? I actually already have about a metric ton of topics followed, but I can add a few more. RPM Challenge and FAWM are already there. I wonder if rpm2015 is too. That’s the official 2015 RPM Challenge twitter hash tag. Turns out the only posts are mine. What about audio hosting sites. Will there be anything for soundcloud or hearthis.at? Again, I am the only person to tag a post with hearthis.at, but soundcloud has a bunch of hits. That’s three, even though I hate soundcloud. Oh, what about GarageBand and Logic Pro? Done and Done.
As for the five blogs I will follow. Well, none of your business. When looking at GarageBand posts I did stumble on an RPM participant. That’s one. While looking at Logic Pro I found someone who used the light bright looking Moonenite that caused such a terrorism scare in Boston a few years ago as a profile picture. That’s two. The final three will all be people who posted photo101 pictures today. Then I’ll add a sixth blog for luck. Someone who has entered a post about Boston.
Done and done.
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