An online notebook
Some good advice from Susan Mernit:
How to grow your (blogging) audience
The traffic to this blog has gone up in the past three months, and it’s surely at least in part a result of some things I consciously put into practice. So, in the interests of transparency and sharing, here are some best practices: Post consistently…
My link blog has now moved to Blogger. This is so I can use BlogJet to dump stuff to it quickly and easily – something I couldn’t do with the BlogLines blog.
This might be useful and worth checking out, from Renee Blodgett
Blogzine launches, which is New Communications Forum’s new bi-monthly online publication dedicated to exploring new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, (including blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, search marketing, etc.).
It aims to discuss the growing phenomena of participatory communications and their effect on traditional media, professional communications, business and society at large.
Their first issue explores the evolution of new models for journalism, PR, brand marketing, and advertising, and a contribution from blogger Jeremy Wright.
Quite a few interesting posts by Steve Rubel on Micro Persuasion recently, which I am still catching up on.
Folksonomies Turn Chaos Into Information
eWeek: The new term “Folksonomy” has emerged to describe the potential for user-defined tags to organically develop structure out of what might appear to be chaotic collections of information. One of the uncertainties about tags is how they can fit together among various services and what meaning can be gleaned from the tags of a large mass of users.
I haven’t really had much involvement with tagging, on Flickr I rarely bother. But more and more sites seem to be emerging using this technology and maybe it’s time I gave it some consideration.
Want to get paid for thinking about blogging? There are plenty of blogging related jobs available via indeed.com. And there’s even a feed to keep track of them.
However unrealistic, I am going to have to do this. Having a job where I could just do this all the time? Great!
From Ken Leebow: Blogging 101 From Website101
http://website101.com/RSS-Blogs-Blogging/index.html
Website101 offers over 30 articles on blogs, RSS Feeds and how to use them to enhance your business. If you know someone who is a new to the world of blogs, this site could be very useful.
Haven’t had a chance to look at this yet, am working offline, but will definately look these up.