Topic 4: Blogging

I've decided each post will have a title referring to which "Thing" of the 23 I'm currently working on. In this case it is the topic about starting a blog (I've yet to complete Topics 2 and 3 (See and Share, Movi) ). This task took me about 20 mins. A third of that time was trying to create my Blogger account. The verification words are hard to decipher. Even when I thought I correctly identified an 'a' and an 'i' were separate and were not in fact just an 'a', it still rejected it. I had to repeat log in details and hope to get a word that was easier to identify. I had the same trouble with Google accounts - it took me four times before I got the word correct. This process may be successful in keeping away spambots creating bogus accounts etc, but it might also be successful in keeping away legitimate users. Once past the account creation stage, it was easy to get started and post a message.