Blogging & Blog Culture
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Blogging Announcement
A day earlier than planned but glad that this is now out in the open. Cross-posted on Scottish Blogs, with a similar post on BritBlog. BritBlog and Scottish Blogs Join Forces Some of you may be familiar with the British Blog Directory, a site similar to Scottish Blogs that focuses on (as the name suggests)…
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One Blogger only
Yesterday, during my experiment with Odeo – experiment, mucking about on the ‘net; potAYtoes, poTAHtoes – Richard asked “if you could only ask one… from anywhere in the world.. which blogger would you invite along to the blogmeet on Saturday?” My initial reaction was to look overseas, and at one of the better known bloggers.…
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Blogosphere*
Are there three blogospheres? asks John at Syntagma. He proposes the notion that blogging/bloggers can be categorised in three groups: Primary – ” “Blogging” as a topic of discussion means nothing to them” Secondary – contains the purely-for-business blogs Tertiary – which comprises all those folk who talk endlessly about “the blogosphere”… serious bloggers, info-providers,…
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Blog Etiquette*
Prompted by this comment thread over at troubled-diva, which started when mike revealed, according to his recent site survey, that “By far the strongest currency in blogging is inter-blog linking, be it on a main post, a linklog post or a blogroll” and that “Comment-whoring doesn’t work!” I, amongst others, was slightly taken aback by…
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Hear me blog!
As someone else somewhere recently commented (can’t remember who or where, sorry!) blogging can be said to be like “shouting into a very large hole in the ground”. I only mention that particular metaphor as it’s a fairly accurate description when you consider the core problem with those new to the blog world – scale.…
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Bloggies 2005
The results are in. But before I pick out some of my choices I thought I’d take a moment to jot down why I’m quite interested in the results. Quite simply, I want to win one. No I’m kidding (well kinda), despite all the easy arguments against this kind of thing I think it’s valuable…