Category: General

Kos reports: Of the twenty-four liberal blogs in the top quintile, Dailykos, TPM Café, Smirking Chimp, Metafilter, BooMan Tribune, MyDD, and Dembloggers are full-fledged community sites where members cannot only comment, but they can also post diaries / articles / polls. By comparison, there are no community sites among the top twenty-four conservative blogs. The […]

From Russell Eudcation Consultancy and Productions: Exploiting the educational potential of podcasting.

BadFruit.com has introduced a free plug-in for iTunes that adds podcast support. BadApple lets users view and download podcasts directly within iTunes. (via Podcasting News)

Toby points to Charlene’s post about how companies are using RSS besides blogs.

Lee compares Tivo and RSS and how the two technologies point to emerging trends.

Mark Anderson over at Andertoons has a little swatch of JavaScript that will let you add a daily cartoon to your blog.

Maryam pointed me to this nice little ‘record an audio and get it in email’ site: Save a Wave

I’ve had a deluge of questions to my inbox from people over the world wanting to get started blogging. I’m gonna do a marathon of answers. Ready? Go:

Full audio of our call with LeeLeFever (20 MB, MP3). 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Blogs versus Discussion Forums They are different enough to continue to be separate tools. Lotus of control: in a blog the author calls the shots on where the content goes, in a forum anybody can guide the direction of the conversation. Deeper […]

Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired according to Stephanie Armour of USA Today. Her article talks about bloggers, blogging at work, and, subsequently, jobless bloggers. Some companies have policies about blogging, some don’t. The best policy … leave the work at work!