Category: General

Measuring investment in blogging CEOS – from CEO Bloggers Club – which always reminds me of that awful miniseries Billionaire Boys Club. Are you actually measuring the investment in your blogs in any kind of systematic way? Have you been thinking about ROI at all?

San Diego State U’s NPR channel has a short program on podcasting – although in Windows Media format: http://www.kpbs.org/archive/thesedays-tue1.asx

Grabbed this link to Dave’s presentation from BloggerCon: Blogging howto for small city newspapers

In tandem with their TV show Best Week Ever – their week-in-review snarkfest – they launched a companion blog which amazingly, has comments! Score!

Yay! I (and a bunch of other bloggers) have garnered entrance to the Media Bloggers Association: Media Bloggers Association (MBA) is a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting MBA members and their blogs, educating bloggers, and promoting the explosion of citizen’s media. Yippee! I feel like I’m on The Swan when they open the curtain and […]

Good God, the hand-wringing is just endless. There is nothing less dynamic than seeing 2 talking heads reading blogs on television. They are wondering by Michael Jackson isn’t oft-discussed in the political blogosphere. Duh. It’s not a political story. Everyone kvetches about Judith Miller’s shilling for Chalabi and basically being a war-mongering, sabre-rattling fluffergirl but […]

I’m attending the 2005 Social Networks conference… the keynote is availabe on audio and features a great summation of the past 20 years of social networks/forums/etc. The biggest question: The technologies for online collaboration have developed enourmously – but has the conversation developed? OSN 2005 Keynote

One of the most exciting things about podcasting is its ability to turn anyone into a broadcaster at minimal cost. Podcasting is to traditional broadcasting as blogging is to mainstream news media; both put powerful publishing tools into the hands of anyone with a computer. Full article: Applications for ‘Podcasting’

What are the coolest uses for RSS feeds out there? I’m looking for information that isn’t just “newest posts” on a blog, or NYT headlines, but something more along the lines of rssweather.com or Netflix’s RSS feeds. What are the most outside-the-box uses of syndication?

Tomorrow is the big day! Everybody’s favorite open-source blog tool turns to version 1.5. I’ve been tinkering with 1.5 on my fitness blog and it’s pretty derned slick. I can’t wait to install it on my other blogs.