The Computer for Children Project

Part five of my seven part series: Why you should let your children blog.

5. A blog is a fine financial decision.

a) A blog be a possible means of income.

This can be done by building a business, selling thing others want, selling information that others want, allowing advertisers to use space on the Web site.

b) Blogging continues to make good use of that $400 to $1000 investment you made in technology.

Writing, cultivating and encouraging an expertise in an area and honing social skills is built in with blogging. It’s more productive than gaming, MySpacing, and messaging.

Part four of my seven part series: Why you should let your children blog.

4. A blog is much easier than creating a Website.

Technically, a blog is a Website. However, it uses special software to set up the blog format, making it much, much easier to create a site on the Web. Even easier: using a free service like WordPress or Blogger or of MySpace to create a blog.