Like Phoenix rising ....

ITnitwit resurfaces from technological inertia to tackle Web 2.1 ......
She would like to claim persistence in using a variety of Web 2.0 tools since completing last year's course but that would be a lie. She hasn't blogged at all but did go into a few other 2.0 course member blogs and leave comments.
There are of course a myriad of blogs she could have looked at, both professional and recreational, but she hasn't. What does she like about blogging? Well, apparently not enough to bestir her into participating in them, but she does appreciate their simplicity to use and the variety of elements that can be included. She still thinks that blogs work best for information dispersal ('vertical') and that wikis are better for communication between professionals - where sharing information is the prelude to creating new information ('horizontal').
She tried very hard to update her blog using a couple of templates from two of the third party sites, but without success (she did inadvertently end up with one design as her desktop wallpaper which was a bit unfortunate - she managed to get rid of it in the end ...). The colibri floral design was particularly appealing. However she was a bit comforted by reading in the comments below that template on the site that about half of those trying to download it failed and they got the same error message that she did ....
So she just changed to a new blogspot template, and added a couple of facts and a picture downloaded from Clip Art to her profile.