Category: General

  • Map to CARR Training

    Hey BlogNashvillers, clueless like me about how to get to tomorrow’s CARR Training at Vandy? Here’s a map. (PDF)

  • What is Tagging? What’s a Folksonomy?

    You may have heard some to-do about the notion of tagging. Tagging is organizing content organically and without a pre-determined structure. So, instead of starting off with a big list of categories to choose for your posts, you ‘tag’ the posts as you go along with relevant keywords. You might write a post and tag […]

  • Hi to all the Coachville Attendees in New Orleans

    I’m not making it this year to the Coachville Conference. Enjoy the hot tub everybody! I’m off to Nashville!

  • BLOG-L Discussion List Launches

    My buddy Pat over at BlogNanny (and a stupendous moderator of many great discussion lists) has launched a listserv for bloggers – BLOG-L. We wrestled with keep it as a blog or a list and decided that the people that really need to know about blogs aren’t in the blog-reading habit yet so we’re going […]

  • BBC Show on RSS

    British technology start-up Market Sentinel is to bring RSS technology into the mainstream tonight, featuring on a BBC show about the media. Featuring on BBC4’s media show “The Desk” tonight at 10pm, Mark Rogers, CEO of Market Sentinel is to talk about online buzz tracking and how it can be used to track the general […]

  • Blogosphere: We Still Hate Paris

    Isn’t that amazing. Even if you wrap perennial Stupid Spoiled Whore Paris Hilton in the ‘ooh shiny’ gossamer of podcasting, she is still a drug-addled whiny wretch.

  • Huffington’s Celebrity Group Blog

    Dan on Arianna Huffington’s foray into group blogging: I’m especially waiting to see if the contributors engage with the readers in a genuine conversation. If they do, I’ll lead the cheers. If not, then the site will just be a scrolling op-ed page. I’m guessing it is going to be the latter. This has that […]

  • ‘Tags’ Ease Sifting of Digital Data

    Thanks Lyle: Tagging is fundamentally about tapping the collective human wisdom, rather than relying on a computer algorithm, for search, said Ben Shneiderman, who teaches human-computer interaction at the University of Maryland.

  • Disneyland to Podcast Launch of 50th Anniversary

    Even the Rodent is getting it together: The podcast will incorporate a collection of exclusive celebrity-interviews, music, historic anecdotes and live event coverage that convey the excitement of the event and the story of what has made Disneyland a national treasure over the past five decades.

  • Gearing Up for BlogNashville

    I am so looking forward to the BlogNashville conference this weekend. Plus, I get to spend time with my sister and her hubbie. I’m attending the Thursday and Friday training for ‘citizen journalists.’ I think it is going to be a great time. See everybody there! I’m testing WordPress’s tagging feature – we’ll see if […]