Saturday, August 06, 2005
Naked Conversations And Other Blogging News
I haven’t been blogging a lot about blogging nowadays, even though I do keep up with the news. I was just reading Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s blogging book, which they’ve now christened “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers.” Very nice! It’s a welcome change from the previous “Blog Or Die” title. They seem to have 11 chapters written so far. I’m not one of those who likes reading online, so I guess I have to wait till the print version is out to read it in its entirety.
Via Steve Rubel comes these interesting little tidbits.
Reader beware of the truthfulness in blogs, warns an editorial in the Missouri Valley Times, noting that blogger’s have “a glorious freedom in their ability to simply “publish” whatever they please with no regard for accuracy or whether their diatribes cause pain and suffering.” Strange, because that’s the very reason I never joined Main Stream Media (MSM) - and people actually believe what they write.
If you’re a picky reader, Forbes Best Of The Web 2005 has a list of the best blogs in categories ranging from Art and Literary Blogs, to Small Business, Marketing, Shopping and Music Blogs.
Money Isn’t the Primary Motivation for Blogging, hits the nail on the head by noting that two out of three Web loggers maintain their online publications because they like to write. However, Kevin O’Keefe cites a survey by BlogKits that found 48% of bloggers do so with money as the motivating reason. Not very surprising, since BlogKits is a blog advertising program, whose audience largely represents those with interest in commercial blogging.
Video blogging or vlogging is in the news with the NY Times doing a piece on it and Videoblog, the first video-blogging service being launched for 3G mobile phones in Italy.
Podcasting changing the face of politics, says another report. Great! Now we don’t just get to read about slime-bag politicians, but also get to listen to them on our MP3 players. Ugh! The upside to that is that people who are clueless about terms like blogs and podcasting will now get an intimate introduction to them.
Even extra-terrestrials wont be spared the tedious prose and outpourings of earthling bloggers. Techtree reports that bloggers can now submit their blog feeds for transmission into deep space via an earth-based satellite broadcast using a free service called BloginSpace, which optimistically exclaims “Aliens Love Blogs!“. Hmmm, I wonder what sort of comments the little green men would have in response to that.
Maybe all ET really needs to read is Andy Wibbels’ post where he responds to 40 Questions About Blogging with just as many answers. Andy also offers a special report that’s a 20 page intro to the ins and outs of blogging and how it can fire up your business online.
Other blogging book releases include Tinu Abayomi-Paul’s Rescue Your Blog book that shows you how to boost traffic to your blog. She ’s also written a free download called “Why Blog? Quick Tips On The Ifs, Whys and Hows of Business Blogging in Plain English” (interesting title!) that you can download with a bunch of other blogging books when you subscribe to my Marketing With Blogs email course. I wish I was as prolific a writer as this amazing woman!
Anne Holland writes in a two-part report in Marketing Sherpa that “Blog Copyright Theft On The Rise “, something I whined about in an earlier post on spam-blogging. Part II of the article has some advice from readers and useful hotlinks. The must-read link I found here is the Bloggers’ FAQ on Intellectual Property.
I was pretty sceptical about Tagging ever becoming a useful tool for categorizing information because of the possibility of over-eager SEOs using it to spam search engines, a concern that was shared by Danny Sullivan. But it could be useful for those using blogging software like Blogger which doesn’t support the use of “categories” as Wordpress does.
Paul Chaney is using both categories and tags and points the way to a little tutorial on tagging by Technorati, which is very similar to a tagging tutorial by IceRocket, whose link I got via Steve Rubel. Thomas Pierce has compiled a lot very useful links for anyone wanting to learn more about tagging. There’s even a blog on tagging for the evangelists.
But it was Yahoo’s new social search engine, My Web 2.0, that really made me change my opinion about the benefits of tagging. It includes features that allow tagging and sharing tags between your personal group of contacts with whom you share web pages and knowledge. It remains to be seen if this really results in better searching, but there’s no doubt that My Web 2.0 is very interesting and might be fun to try - provided your friends are also using it.
Problogger Darren Rowse has some interesting observations on what he calls “blogging rythms” or daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly patterns that repeat themselves in the life of any blog. In other blogging news, blogs are helping people get book deals, get fired or “dooced” and get new jobs.
Business blogging is booming and many big companies have put rules in place for employee blogging. An article in the Chicago Tribune has experts like B L Ochman advising that before you launch your blog, research existing blogs, noting what you like or don’t like about other blogs. And make sure you have something to say.
If you think your blog is boring, make sure you read this article by Susan Solomon in Marketing Profs which offers useful tips to “make your blog sizzle.”
But the best advice I read about blogging this week came from Stephanie Klien whose blog “Greek Tragedy” landed her a lucrative book deal. “When you’re honest,” said Klein, “you can’t be boring.”
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Originally Posted on 8/6/2005 4:17:56 PMContent source: http://marketingslave.com/2005/07/28/naked-conversations-and-other-blogging-news/
Via Steve Rubel comes these interesting little tidbits.
Reader beware of the truthfulness in blogs, warns an editorial in the Missouri Valley Times, noting that blogger’s have “a glorious freedom in their ability to simply “publish” whatever they please with no regard for accuracy or whether their diatribes cause pain and suffering.” Strange, because that’s the very reason I never joined Main Stream Media (MSM) - and people actually believe what they write.
If you’re a picky reader, Forbes Best Of The Web 2005 has a list of the best blogs in categories ranging from Art and Literary Blogs, to Small Business, Marketing, Shopping and Music Blogs.
Money Isn’t the Primary Motivation for Blogging, hits the nail on the head by noting that two out of three Web loggers maintain their online publications because they like to write. However, Kevin O’Keefe cites a survey by BlogKits that found 48% of bloggers do so with money as the motivating reason. Not very surprising, since BlogKits is a blog advertising program, whose audience largely represents those with interest in commercial blogging.
Video blogging or vlogging is in the news with the NY Times doing a piece on it and Videoblog, the first video-blogging service being launched for 3G mobile phones in Italy.
Podcasting changing the face of politics, says another report. Great! Now we don’t just get to read about slime-bag politicians, but also get to listen to them on our MP3 players. Ugh! The upside to that is that people who are clueless about terms like blogs and podcasting will now get an intimate introduction to them.
Even extra-terrestrials wont be spared the tedious prose and outpourings of earthling bloggers. Techtree reports that bloggers can now submit their blog feeds for transmission into deep space via an earth-based satellite broadcast using a free service called BloginSpace, which optimistically exclaims “Aliens Love Blogs!“. Hmmm, I wonder what sort of comments the little green men would have in response to that.
Maybe all ET really needs to read is Andy Wibbels’ post where he responds to 40 Questions About Blogging with just as many answers. Andy also offers a special report that’s a 20 page intro to the ins and outs of blogging and how it can fire up your business online.
Other blogging book releases include Tinu Abayomi-Paul’s Rescue Your Blog book that shows you how to boost traffic to your blog. She ’s also written a free download called “Why Blog? Quick Tips On The Ifs, Whys and Hows of Business Blogging in Plain English” (interesting title!) that you can download with a bunch of other blogging books when you subscribe to my Marketing With Blogs email course. I wish I was as prolific a writer as this amazing woman!
Anne Holland writes in a two-part report in Marketing Sherpa that “Blog Copyright Theft On The Rise “, something I whined about in an earlier post on spam-blogging. Part II of the article has some advice from readers and useful hotlinks. The must-read link I found here is the Bloggers’ FAQ on Intellectual Property.
I was pretty sceptical about Tagging ever becoming a useful tool for categorizing information because of the possibility of over-eager SEOs using it to spam search engines, a concern that was shared by Danny Sullivan. But it could be useful for those using blogging software like Blogger which doesn’t support the use of “categories” as Wordpress does.
Paul Chaney is using both categories and tags and points the way to a little tutorial on tagging by Technorati, which is very similar to a tagging tutorial by IceRocket, whose link I got via Steve Rubel. Thomas Pierce has compiled a lot very useful links for anyone wanting to learn more about tagging. There’s even a blog on tagging for the evangelists.
But it was Yahoo’s new social search engine, My Web 2.0, that really made me change my opinion about the benefits of tagging. It includes features that allow tagging and sharing tags between your personal group of contacts with whom you share web pages and knowledge. It remains to be seen if this really results in better searching, but there’s no doubt that My Web 2.0 is very interesting and might be fun to try - provided your friends are also using it.
Problogger Darren Rowse has some interesting observations on what he calls “blogging rythms” or daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly patterns that repeat themselves in the life of any blog. In other blogging news, blogs are helping people get book deals, get fired or “dooced” and get new jobs.
Business blogging is booming and many big companies have put rules in place for employee blogging. An article in the Chicago Tribune has experts like B L Ochman advising that before you launch your blog, research existing blogs, noting what you like or don’t like about other blogs. And make sure you have something to say.
If you think your blog is boring, make sure you read this article by Susan Solomon in Marketing Profs which offers useful tips to “make your blog sizzle.”
But the best advice I read about blogging this week came from Stephanie Klien whose blog “Greek Tragedy” landed her a lucrative book deal. “When you’re honest,” said Klein, “you can’t be boring.”
more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/6/2005 4:17:56 PMContent source: http://marketingslave.com/2005/07/28/naked-conversations-and-other-blogging-news/
