• your topic/theme for your blog     My theme is a rambling discourse of Emergency Medical Services in Alabama. 

• anticipated audience                    Paramedics in the State.

• blog used                                   Wordpress on my own domain

• list the widget(s) you are going to use and explain why you chose them for your blog
• Archives
• Search
• Recent Comments
• Recent Posts
• Meta 
• Links
• RSS
• I chose these widgets because I am not familiar with the m and they seemed like things I would like. 

Twenty Ten 1.2 by the WordPress team

The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.

• provide your thoughts/reactions (on the class wiki) about using a moderated blog versus an invited reader blog.

                I am all about freedom of speech, except on my dime. I am a fan of the moderated blog because I know that some of those readers of my subject matter can be a bit high strung at times. They might post something without thinking and I wish to prevent that.

               The invited blog will still have the uninvited reader crash it or get through a backdoor.

                Maybe it is a control thing, but I want dominion over my site.

I was intimidated over this Blog thing, word press, and dreamweaver. Stephanie worked with me one Sunday afternoon and demystified wordpress and talked me through buying a domain and setting up hosting.

Thanks Steph!