How-tos

Wordpress blogs do not only support text and audio but video as well.

It is possible to create a video podcast (unfortunately sometimes called a vodcast) with a Wordpress.com account. You can do this in two different ways.

Use iSquint to compress your video. If you are preparing a video to play it over the internet may need to make your video smaller, which is known as compressing and/or transcoding.

If you are using a Mac we recommend using a freeware tool called iSquint to compress it into a smaller size. We've chosen iSquint here as it is very easy to use for basic compression.

If you are an advanced user you might want to check out FFMpegX.

Make animated GIFs using GIMP. There are two methods described here; the first method is using image layers and the second uses an additional GIMP animation package called GAP.There are two basic steps to create an animated GIF:1 - create frames using your favourite drawing program - animate them using GIF animation softwareHere are few tips to bear in mind:

This guide to Anonymous Blogging was written by Global Voices.

Global Voices provides the following disclaimer;

Set up a Wordpress blog. If you would like to set up your own website that can be regularly updated with new ideas and descriptions of events in a chronological order, it doesn't get much easier than using Wordpress.com.This guide takes you through every step you need to follow to set up a blog using Wordpress and make simple modifications to the way it looks. Get blogging! This guide makes it easy!

Try out the skills and software you need to record a two minute interview with a minimum of equipment. This means doing an interview using just one microphone and a laptop.

You will need: