TAG: blogs
the uncanny valley of relationship marketing
"They plunge into a kind of direct marketing uncanny valley where the more desperately they try to personalise their message the more I'm reminded that they're not really my friend. The more 'personal' information they utilise the more it freaks me out."
Tags: marketing advertising blogs
"In a world where many people get their music for free, we wanted to create a site where bands we loved could put their music out there for free AND get paid for it."
Tags: music advertising mp3 blogs
the best thing i learned today
Brilliant idea for a blog.
"So to make things easier for you, here I present my top 50 graphic design blogs. I’ve categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog."
Awesome blog full of visualizations by the guy who did the McCarren Pool reviewed.
Tags: blogs culture data visualization
"Instead of personal points I will count how many times the content of the blog has been bookmarked in Del.icio.us, which I think shows how interesting the content produced in that blog actually is."
Tags: advertising blogs
NxE's Fifty Most Influential Bloggers at Weekly Articles About Blogging
"These are the movers and shakers. When they speak, the blogging world listens. These are our Fifty Most Influential Bloggers, and if you don't know them, you need to."
"First and foremost you need to build an audience, build trust with them, deliver on a regular basis for them. There's no way people are going to come back again and again if your blog doesn't enlighten, entertain, and inform."
"What Om, Mike and Paul are doing is effectively creating lightweight professional publishing outlets; complete with all the offering a newspaper/magazine has, with the added benefit of less overhead and easier (if not frictionless) distribution."
Fake Steve Jobs: "Now you've ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder. Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina."
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'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean
An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, “Fake Steve.�
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"It’s simply that new content startups understand the value of being lean and mean and constraint-free, whereas old media houses are too stuck in the mindset of big, fancy and infrastructure-bound."
Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future
A not-so-hard-to-imagine future vision from Bruce Sterling.
Tags: blogs culture future local rfid science technology
The vintage allure of Fake Steve Jobs
"What the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon has to say about our culture is that perhaps "new media" isn't as new as we'd like to think it is."
Tags: apple blogs writing culture
House of Naked: The Home of Naked Communications NYC
The Naked blog.
"I sat there at one moment thinking what it would cost me in time and effort to meet any of these people. Tons. Tons of time and effort. But these people have found one another, thanks to the internet, blogging"
Tags: blogs culture community trend
Blogger Outreach Done Right - The Nikon Blog Ambassador Program
"With this program i think Nikon provide a very good example of how to get extremely valuable devices in the hands of bloggers without a hint of the cronyism or accusations of undue influence that have often come along with $1000+ giveaways to bloggers."
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Trench Warfare: Blogs, Podcasts and Vidcasts
"When you first start a blog, like The Simpsons, it’s a very badly drawn character. But as you continue, it starts to look more like you, you find your niche and you build your brand."
Tags: blogs conference branding
"So as our cities grow more dense, our social relationships are moving into Twitter time. Bettencourt and his coauthors would claim that this is neither good nor bad -- it's simply the inevitable outcome of urban growth."
Tags: culture blogs twitter mobile time trend
Ways in which working on kottke.org is like gardening
"Pruning the list of RSS feeds I follow."
Notes on a transparent apology
"I’m still snickering over the recent comments of Fake Steve Jobs at about famous PR guy Steve Rubel."
Tags: transparency pr marketing blogs
Anil Dash weighs in on the nasty side of the blogosphere.
Tags: blogs culture ethics community
"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
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Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct
This strikes me as a very analog solution to a digital problem.
Tags: blogs ethics culture conversation
"I have a philosophy: I post first!"
"Fire the publicist. Go off message. Let all your employees blab and blog. In the new world of radical transparency, the path to business success is clear."
Tags: transparency business blogs trend marketing culture
How Ze Frank became a Web video star
"The perceived importance and value of entries to readers is inversely proportional to the frequency of entries on any given day."
Narcissism and Fame Are a Little Too Easy
"The act of conveying information to others is in itself a very pleasant experience for most people . . . Sharing gives you a buzz, especially when that sharing is acknowledged directly."
Tags: blogs attention community culture
A Good Corporate Blog: Southwest Airlines
"ts strength lies in it's the diversity of its writers who represent a number of different sides of Southwest's business; from pilots and attendants, to schedule planners."
Tags: corporateblogging blogs business travel
As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
Tags: attention radicaltransparency identity culture trend blogs youth technology
"I thought I'd bounce around a few thoughts. It's basically about taking a few key trends and looking at them at a different angle."
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Just another lonely, terrorist-like blogger
CK breaks down why bloggers are not necessarily as lonely as one professor seems to think they are.
Tags: blogs community culture books
Graphs for everything you can imagine.
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Bears fans vent anger on blog site over snubs
Da Bears Blog gets a nice mention in the Chicago Tribune.
"A consultancy called the Attention Company has just complete a fascinating survey of what it calls "Out There" people---think Mark Cuban and other promoters of radical transparency."
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What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2)
"Some of these are based on my experience in open-sourcing my book research on this site, which worked great. Why not apply the same lessons to a magazine?"
Tags: blogs collaboration magazines media2.0 transparency opensource
10 Social Media Strategies for the Fortune 1000 Corporations
"Social Media (Blogs, Forums, Wikis, Podcasts, Video blogs and other tools) are appearing in every industry. Below are my 10 strategic themes for 2007."
Tags: socialmedia blogs community business marketing
"Under the new model, a blogger can permanently "activate" the content, distribute it and allow the New York Times to generate ongoing ad revenue from the article."
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"Can marketing actually make life a little better? I think so. If we celebrate Marketing for Good and decry Marketing for Bad, will more marketers chose the former over the latter? Perhaps."
In Praise of Radical Transparency
"Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency."
Tags: transparency identity privacy technology trust blogs communication
The indie music site that everyone loves to hate.
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Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging
From Organic and their blog Three Minds
Tags: blogs business tips management
Observations from the first few months of blogging.
New audience metric needed: engagement
"Well, as an advertiser I want to talk to an audience who’ll actually DO something. Yeah, I’m hoping to get a sale."
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"With 175,000 being created every day and the blogosphere doubling in size every six months, the standards for a quality weblog have become much higher. Here are 7 ways to optimize yours."
Announcing The Techdirt Insight Community
"Companies sign up to engage the Techdirt Insight Community to raise issues, get feedback, test ideas, review products, make strategy suggestions. . . or any number of other services that require a dedicated group of experts."
Tags: blogs business research marketing technology
Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
My oneaday made the cut: "In a more self-reflective variation, our pal Noah takes a photo a day using the webcam built into his MacBook." Cool.
Tags: photography blogs
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
Tags: design internet blogs search attention web2.0
More on the PayPerPost Debate (or "Tim Draper where are you!?!?!)
Jason Calcanis on PayPerPost as what he calls 'deceptive marketing.'
Tags: blogs advertising ethics marketing
Calculating the ROI of blogging
Charlene Li at Forrester offers some thoughts on how to think about the ROI question as it relates to blogging.
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The Unique And Beautiful Snowflake Trap (Or Why 90% Of You Must Die)
"Because despite what Google says it’s not about page rank. Or page views. Or even popularity. It’s about inspiration, ideas and cool people."
"Summarizing the latest news and discussions from 212 NFL blogs."
A blog dedicated to the best food in the entire world.
Tags: blogs food reviews travel
How Brands Participate in the Conversation at OMMA East
"There is no "ideal owner" for social media initiatives within an organization, but there is definitely a first mover advantage where the individual with the passion for doing something with personal media often becomes the internal champion . . . "
Tags: blogs marketing business media2.0
BuzzLogic calculates social media influence
"BuzzLogic looks at content relevance, using full text analysis; the number of messages from a certain publisher over time; traffic, including users referred by influencers and total number of pages views . . ."
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Blogs About Business Travel Begin to Feel the Power
Another article about bloggers getting attention from busiesses.
Tags: travel blogs business nytimes
"Inner blogging: your mind becomes a blog, and your sensory impressions are the posts. Your entire life seems like an ongoing "blog" of sorts. Blogging is then like praying. You are constantly "publishing" new "posts" to your inner consciousness."
Tags: blogs brain thinking technology
Andrew Teman, who used to work at Intermix, calls foul on the new Myspace article published by Valleywag.
Tags: blogs journalism myspace
Great list of popular blogs and their stereotypical post.
"Successful vlog stars are not actors. They are successful because we believe them. They are anti-actors. It’s the realness of them which make them successful in the first place."
Tags: video blogs business media2.0 television
"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
Tags: blogs business change bestarticlesof2006 entrepreneur innovation attention
"From the boulevards of Washington D.C. and the sunny fields of Silicon Valley, we bring you the latest in new media spaces, emerging programming, communication practices, and online standards."
Tags: blogs nicedesign
10 things you should be monitoring
"In order to manage your reputation you need to track the right things, so here's a list of 10 things that you absolutely need to be monitoring."
Tags: marketing attention blogs business pr rss
On Ethical Weblogging (Part Two)
Tome Coastes of plasticbag.org lays out the ethical guidelines for his blog.
The invisible hand on the keyboard
Why do economists spend valuable time blogging?
Tags: blogs economics education attention
"When I'm deciding what links to post here, I'm essentially curating ideas, collecting them to "send" to you (and to myself, in a way). And unconsciously, these seven points factor into my decision on what to post here."
10 Reasons Readers Donâ t Leave Comments
"Compelling content causes comments." Good point.
Lily Allen, Britainâ s New Pop Star, Has Cheek, and Bite, to Spare
"She symbolizes a new blogging-age, middle-class girl: cockily ambitious, skeptical yet enthusiastic, technically savvy, musically open, obsessed with public expression and ready to fight back."
Tags: music nytimes blogs myspace attention
"These are my passions, but they reflect the part of me that is about horses, running, skiing, skating, the environment, writing, or creating. If I relabel them to reflect my gender, I believe both (my gender and the labeled thing) are diminished by the "
Tags: blogs gender culture identity technology
Yet another self-serving corporate blog!
The first post at the new Yahoo! corporate blog Yodel.
The "Snakes on a Plane" Problem
The tragedy of the best titled movie in the history of film
Tags: movies culture blogs marketing
"Blogs -- like all modes of contemporary media -- are not historically unique; they draw upon and resemble a number of past traditions and forms, depending on their focus."
Tags: blogs journalism
LG taps into the power of blogs
"LG appears to have enlisted the power of bloggers to help promote its new Chocolate phone. "
Tags: design mobile technology marketing blogs
Promotion from LG about their new "Chocolate" phone. They are incredibly open about wanting to recruit bloggers to talk about the product. Cool stuff. (If anyone there happens to read this, I'd be happy to help.)
Tags: design mobile technology blogs marketing
Wonkette's Ingredients for a Successful Blog
"The idea that someone could enter into a conversation, you know, based just on having an opinion and an argument. And it’s a conversation that includes people who have real power in the world."
WE ARE ALL CNN (Or New Media That Matters)
Chartreuse is putting up $1,000 to send two people to New Orleans with a video camera to document what's going on.
Tags: journalism documentary blogs politics media2.0
Blog Traffic Week #1: Getting on Top of Digg, Reddit or Del.icio.us is EVIL
Four ways to be a better blogger from okdork.com
Tags: blogs networking writing del.icio.us
10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work
"So, you’re seeing too many of those “how to� and list headlines, and want to try a few different angles? Let’s move beyond those common headline formulas you see over and over, and add some new blood to your attention-grabbing arsenal."
Tags: copywriting blogs writing
On blogging: "I don't consider this writing, I consider this thinking."
"I am my brain's publisher."
"I’m Internet famous. It’s a rough life I live, but I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. And if you actually believe all this shit then you must be Internet famous like me."
Tags: attention blogs identity
Russel Davies' presentation on brands and blogs.
Tags: blogs branding marketing
"Our multiple selves overlap, intersect, and interact in ways that are much messier. Erasure is not an acceptable ideology - every interaction, every mouse-click, every blog entry becomes a new piece in our larger distributed, networked identity."
Tags: identity blogs connectedness
The 1% rule: bloggers can't do maths
The ratio of uploads to downloads on YouTube is 0.065%. In other words, a comparatively small group is uploading the majority of the content.
Tags: youtube video blogs community
"We are all eventually going to free agents and it’s important you have people who around you who realizes that and know how to exploit it to your benefit."
Use twttr to stay in touch with your friends all the time. If you have a cell and can txt, you’ll never be bored again…E V E R !
On media elitism and the "derivative" myth
"Technorati currently shows more than 152,000,000 posts that use the word "I". So that's roughly 300 times more people talking about themselves (and the world around them) than talking about what the New York Times has written about."
Tags: blogs journalism media2.0
"The real power is how personal media fragments the mass market audience by turning readers, watchers, listeners, into writers and video and audio creators. Most of these folks won't make money and it won't matter."
"If you believe that tools influence content, and I absolutely do, then the most important thing we can do with all this technology is to try to build tools that encourage meaningful expression."
Tags: technology creativity communication community relationships blogs
On the Fimoculous redesign: "Although it might look like I've merely thrown a bunch of widgets on the page, it's actually intended to signal a notion that I've lately been bouncing off people: the future of blogging is self-aggregation."
Tags: blogs design aggregation attention
Robert Scoble answers readers questions on lots of topics.
Tags: microsoft blogs technology business
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen's state of the media audience.
Tags: blogs media2.0 community trend journalism
The Race To The Bottom ( Or Oprah, Lesbians, Jason Calacanis And The Future Of Blogs)
"So now what’s happening to blogging is the same thing that has happened to all successful media before it.Tits, ass, celebrity, music and sex."
Russel Davies: "Blogs blur the line between employees as corporate mouth and employees as people. Blogs work best when they're expressions of real personalities, not when they're written according to corporate guidelines."
Tags: blogs business marketing communication
Ford is documenting their attempt to save the company.
Tags: branding business cars marketing blogs video
Jeopardy super geek Ken Jennings has a blog.
Tags: blogs television
After stormy discussion CSSBloom team has chosen the best 20 blog designs.
Tags: design blogs lists bestof inspiration
Momus answers the question: "What should I blog about?"
Tags: writing blogs creativity bestarticlesof2006
Individual Talent as Media Brand
"As Google continues to destroy the value of branded content, individual media brands may be the last line of defense."
Tags: branding identity blogs media2.0
1/3 of referrals to washingtonpost.com from blogs
"In a signing of the growing power of blogs to drive traffic online, WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Jim Brady says that one-third of the referrals washingtonpost.com gets now comes through blogs."
Tags: newspapers blogs trend
"When it comes to jobs, let your blog be your screener. If you run into potential employers similiar to those Kristine had to deal with, then screw ‘em, there are better places out there that’ll have more respect for you."
Tags: blogs jobs trend culture identity
"A showcase of headline typographic design from across the web."
Tags: design blogs inspiration
A gallery of blog comment designs.
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"True learning happens when learners stop seeing themselves as mere students who do homework and complete assignments. True learning happens when they don’t see it as learning."
Tags: education blogs learning community writing
"We're pretty happy to announce that the complete spam protection that WordPress users have enjoyed since Akismet started is now available for Movable Type."
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"This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they’re creatures of fierce untameable beauty."
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Referential vs. Experiential Bloggers
"The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at this."
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Blogging For Blogging's Sake or The Tyranny of the Term
"Take “blog� as another example  “web log� software is simply a publishing platform  an easy-to-use content management system  but it has come to connote an iconoclastic, power-to-the-little-guy ethos."
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels takes on Robert Scoble, Shel Israel and corporate blogging.
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14 of the Fortune 500, or 3%, blog.
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A Guest Blogger, and an Unwritten Law
George Clooney doesn't really write a blog post. Arienna Huffington refuses to apologize and says the medium is not the message. Everyone gets real mad. Huffington finally realizes she's wrong and apologizes. Times picks up story.
Tags: blogs journalism celebrity nytimes politics ethics
Eric Asimov's New York Times blog all about wine.
Frank Bruni's new New York Times food blog.
"Blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence. No Modern Library edition of the great polemicists of the blogosphere to yellow on the shelf."
How to design your blog with C.R.A.P.: Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity.
Manifesto for "blogjects" -- objects that blog
"Ever since this "blogjects" topic has started circulating, I've been asked lots of things, but two questions have come to the fore. First, why would objects want to just blog? Second, why would I care if objects "blog"?"
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"ExpressionEngine is a highly flexible, feature-rich web publishing system that empowers individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to create dynamic, content-driven websites."
"There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others."
Tags: funny celebrity blogs education
He of Tipping Point and Blink fame has finally entered the blogosphere.
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"The democratization of content creation will not democratize value creation. Only a small handful of people has the gift of original insight and original ideas. All the rest is echo and noise."
Tags: internet blogs culture media2.0 web2.0
On the New York Magazine Blog Article
Terry Heaton: "This otherwise excellent piece of work begins with the assumption that the purpose of getting into blogging is to reach the largest audience possible and monetize that audience through advertising."
Tags: blogs media magazines advertising
"Now enter the blogosphere, where ideas are born, nurtured, transmitted and evolved -- all in a single day. Ideas have a life of their own; good ones seem to create their own connections."
Tags: blogs brain networking
When It Comes to Blogs, There Aren't Enough Words
"Think about how we use 'blog' in conversation and compare that with our more evolved slang for print publications. Nobody calls Sports Illustrated a 'group magazine.' And we don't call everything we read on paper a 'print.'"
Tags: language blogs media slang
From Dan: A Letter to the Bayosphere Community
Dan Gillmor explains why and how Bayosphere failed as a citizen journalism project.
Why Blog Networks Will Fail This Year
Is there any real value to starting a blog network?
Tags: blogs networking business
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy
Further proof Jason Calcanis is obnoxious.
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How to bring the information buried deep in your blog forward.
Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index)
There are seven basic blog posting formats: "link-only, link blurb, brief remark, list, short article, long article and series postings."
Seedmagazine.com - Lookin' Good
How Movable Type was implemented as the content management system for Seed Magazine's new website.
Tags: blogs magazines design movabletype
A blog featuring the best online banners from around the world.
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Blog from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Eye Level will be dedicated to American art and the ways in which the nation’s art reflects its history and culture."
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Blogging as Attempts at Understanding
Blogging "has the potential to help us create . . . communities of learners who approach learning as engagement with epistemic texts, learners who see writing and reading as cognitive tools, who understand the value of thinking through texts."
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Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.
McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."
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Teen Content Creators and Consumers
"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
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A gallery full of screenshots and links to good blog design. It's in Spanish, by the way.
Panasonic Targets Power-Hungry Device Users
"Afterhourscity.com is run by a handful of bloggers in five target markets, with Oxyride along as a sponsor with no editorial control over the blog's content, Murano said."
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"While blogging can be about playing on a world stage to influence . . . there are millions of people who are happily publishing daily without those motivations. For them, it's more about expression, self-reflection, and communication."
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I hear this a fair amount myself, no necessarily from media people, but just randomly. It always feels a bit bizarre.
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Jakob Nielsen: "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,"
Tags: blogs usability design ui lists posted
"The Ogilvy PR BlogFeeds are our feeds from some of the most influential blogs out there. The ones we're reading every day."
Tags: blogs marketing pr rss posted
Nick Denton: "The whole point about blogs is that they're not part of big media. Consolidation defeats the purpose. It's way too early. Like a decade too early."
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Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused
"A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging."
Tags: funny research blogs podcasting england posted
Not surprisingly, it's a blog about designers who blog
Steven Johnson: "Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life"
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"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
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It's not what it is, it's what it enables
"Let me state the obvious: the real value of blogs and wikis is not the tool itself. It's what the tool enables. Sadly, many advocates overlook this simple fact."
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Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments
"Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged."
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With RSS
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Interview with Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens of 9rules
"Paul "Scrivs" Scrivens is barely 25 years old and already has a productive entrepreneurial effort underway building a loose network of high quality blogs under his "9rules" banner."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
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when mainstream media cite blogs
"There's something funny about watching mainstream media pick up their reporting habits from bloggers. I wonder if we get misspellings next?"
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"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
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"This is a website written by a guy who likes to complain about the small fiddly parts of things."
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When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
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"Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Typeâ„¢, TypePadâ„¢, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto."
Tags: apple free blogs photography plugins movabletype posted
"Join a distinguished panel of guests as they discuss the possibilities and limitations of blogging as a guerilla marketing device."
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The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York.
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Street art around New York, all being released to the public domain
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WYSIWYG under Movable Type 3.x
Using FCKeditor to implement WYSIWYG in MT
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SFist bitches out the Blog Business Summit PR department
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"Shaun Inman is the designer/developer responsible for Designologue, Mint and IFR. Originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area, he now resides in Baltimore, Maryland"
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"First Comprehensive Study of the Actual Online Behavior of Blog Visitors Now Available"
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"We believe both web applications and learning about how to create web applications can always be better."
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"This site was designed as a place for me to convey some of my ideas and keep a record of my thoughts. If it helps people code better websites, then that will make me happy."
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Killer resources for entrepreneurs
Tags: blogs business entrepreneur tools webapp software posted
Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability
Catalyst’s proprietary test of the usability of blogs, conducted in late June and early July of 2005
Tags: blogs design usability research ux
The fired nanny from the New York Times article refutes many of the claims from "The Nanny Diaries are Now Online"
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Once again showing that people don't get fired for blogs, but for their indiscretion in using them.
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Anil Dash offers tips to clueless PR people for pitching bloggers
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Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book
"For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like Mr. Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books."
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Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy.
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A VC: "Blogging 2.0 has developed to the point that the $410 million that The New York Times paid for About.com is going to look really cheap in a few years."
Tags: blogs business nytimes posted
Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
Tags: history blogs business internet journalism writing posted bestarticlesof2005
Internet's new wave proves hard to catch
The press wants to get bloggers on its side, but a US experiment shows it may not be easy, writes Rafael Behr
For a fee, some blogs boost firms
"With a growing number of businesses using blogs to help promote their products, sometimes in ways that are not very transparent, it is increasingly difficult to discern who or what is behind a blogger's pitch . . ."
Tags: blogs business marketing posted
"DeVigal pointed to the website of Noah Brier as a place where he goes to keep an eye on trends in this developing field, so I’ll just pass on that reference before I run."
With Audioblogger you can post audio to your blog from any phone.
Tags: blogs free podcasting posted tools
Garrett Dimon: "We learn something new, a competitive advantage if you will, and we post about it as soon as we can to share it with the world."
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Customer Relationships are Fundamental
Feedster CEO writes about turning on customers to your brand through blogs.
Tags: blogs business branding posted
"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected"
Tags: blogs journalism law reference tips posted
10 Commandments for The Era of Participatory Public Relations
Micro Persuasion: "Here are the 10 commandments for public relations professionals as I see them in the Golden Era of Participation…"
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Transparency and sponsorship in the blogosphere
Marc Canter's explanation of his "pay bloggers to blog" strategy
Chinese blogs face restrictions
The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites.
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Khoi Vinh’s Web Site
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How to appear in a hipster photoblog
myblogispoop: "Don't look directly at the camera, look off to the side as if to indicate that something really cool is happening. But please, don't be excited that something cool is happening."
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Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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"This is an extension to the way, WP handles categories, aimed at making the whole process more “taglike� and adding the ease of use and extensions we have come to expect in tags."
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David Galbraith: "Blogebrity is an interesting experiment to see if you can create a viral meme where there is almost no information payload within the replicator by making it highly attractive to potentially contagious hosts, a 'headline only' meme."
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A replacement for MTCommentFields
Trying to find a workaround for MTCommentFields
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Installing Movable Type on Tiger
Want to install Movable Type on Mac OS X Tiger? Justin Williams shows you how to get up and running with Movable Type using SQLite, the lightweight database engine included with every copy of Tiger.
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Once blogs 'change everything,' fascination with them will chill
USA Today: "More likely, a few years from now, after the blog bubble has normalized, we'll look back and say that this technology made a difference and that our total fascination with it seems quaint."
Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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2005 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
The Morning News: "These are the sites we enjoyed the most in the past year, sites that impressed us with their stories, or how quickly they became indispensable in our daily surfing."
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SimpleBits explanation for highlighting a specific author in MT comments
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"MovableType has conditional tags that are true when entries and pings are enabled. The following tags allow you to test whether comments or pings exist."
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NYTimes: "DON'T ask Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media and its growing list of popular Web logs, about his empire. "People come up to me as if it's witty and say, 'How is the empire going?' " Mr. Denton said, "which is pretty pathetic.""
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A collection of MP3 blogs organized by genre and alphabetically