9 posts tagged “blogging”

Music fans: I will be mob-logging photos to this blog, and posting short set reviews and other notes to my music links and news blog djchall.com using the new iMT plug-in.

has all occurred at djchall.com, on my writing and music blogs. I would cross-post from there but unfortunately Yuji's excellent PostVox plugin doesn't work on Yahoo! Small Business Hosting (not his fault, Y!SB just doesn't supply the XML::Parser perl library.)

If you're interested, I now have an aggregate feed that pulls in entries from both my writing and music blogs, thanks to the power of MT4's MulitBlog feature:

djchall.com aggregate feed

I am fulfilling another one of my 2006 goals, which is to blog more. as you can see from my sidebar. I don't know that I can break my record from April 2006 (when I was unemployed) but still it looks to be my best month on Vox in quite a while. And this doesn't count all the posting I've been doing to djchall.com, and to the intranet blogs here at work. Too bad I can't create an aggregator blog that would collect all of my posts, both personal and professional, but there would probably be IP issues with that.

Movable Type is so epic. Look at that beauteous tag cloud. If you
haven't checked out djchall.com, I suggest you do (f you like music
news and links, that is.)

I've been a bit embarassed for a while that while I work on Movable Type, I don't actually use it to do any of my own blogging. Tonight while fooling around with the QuickPost feature I realized that a good use for my djchall.com site, which I set up originally to test Yahoo! Small Business hosting, would be a good place to house a music links/news blog. So check it out at:

http://djchall.com

or subscribe to the RSS feed at:

http://djchall.com/atom.xml

Don't worry, I will continue to use djchall.vox.com for personal blogging, and also mp3 posting until I can figure out how to add file uploading to MT's QuickPost feature.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on at OSCON this year. Here's a session I would have liked to have seen:

Open Source Clue Training: How to Market to People Who Hate Marketing: Doc Searls, Linux Journal

Fortunately, Dru Lavigne took notes on the session. There are a lot of great sound bites, including these:

The static web is about spaces and places whereas the live web is about time and people.

The static web is a haystack whereas the live web is organized chronologically: e.g. http://blog.com/year/month/day/post.

As opposed to publishers which publish finished works, blogs are provisional. The best of blogging is about rolling snowballs and watching the momentum grow--if it grows and gets somewhere, the idea is not just yours.

And later, Doc lays down his new rules of marketing:

use tags, they'll only get bigger

learn and relearn from Open Source success stories

read the The Cheater's Guide to Network Testing

podcast everything you can

when developing products, put sales ahead of marketing

send engineers, not marketing, to conventions to talk to the customers

personal blogs matter more than corporate ones

use aggregators to follow what's going on

advertising as we know it (even online) is doomed due to waste

I saw this ad this weekend on MacDailyNews:

I thought it was interesting how they were promoting blogging as the reason to get a Macbook. Tells you that blogging is getting so mainstream that's it's a reason to buy a computer (or buy a new one.)

Ars Technica is reporting that Word 2007 is going to feature integrated blogging . Microsoft Word is legendary for producing for inefficient and ugly html, but it seems that maybe they've fixed that, according to the lead engineer (with the oddly disturbing name of "Joe Friend") on the project on a post from his blog :

The goal for this feature is not pure fidelity, but the right fidelity for your blog. The HTML for this post was created by Word. Go ahead, click View, Source in your browser and look at the HTML starting with "Word is a great tool..." We really are going pretty basic here. Bold become <strong>, Italic becomes <em>, Heading 1 become <h1>, Quotes become <blockquote> and on it goes. There are definitely kinks in Beta 2. For example we are encoding smart quotes incorrectly so I had to turn off that feature in Word, but the goal is to output just what is needed to make your blog post clean and readable (code and rendered HTML).

Here's a screenshot, from the Microsoft guy's blog posting:

Here is the new blog account dialog, which giznankerously doesn't mention Typepad:

When I was blogging a lot to Typepad I used Word a lot, because it felt safer (no chance of browser giznank losing a long post) and because I am very used to editing text in Word. In Comet, I do actually compose using the rtf editor-because it's cooler, and there's a post recovery feature (which is huge) and the easy integration of assets.

That being said, I would actually be tempted to use this Word 2007 blogging feature if:

• it ends up in the Mac version of Office
• it supported Typepad (or Comet)

Those are both big ifs, of course. This seems like something worth keeping an eye on. Maybe someone should evangelize him to support 6A products as well?

It's a blog post about Veronica Mars and other televison blogging. Blogging about blogging. It's like a pyramid scheme... only no one gets hurt. Until the bubble bursts of course. Can the attention economy have meme bubbles? And if so, when a meme bubble bursts, what are the consequences? An empty feeling of having wasted one's life?

Anyway until that day comes, I will continue priming the pump of the Veronica Mars meme. To wit, this article about UPN hosting a Veronica Mars bloggers' day, and how involved the shows' producers, especially Rob Thomas, are with the online community.

I thought this qutoe was interesting, in how being able to connect online with other fans can actually change the experience of "watching" a TV show.

“Movies are more of a one-time thing, and they don't allow for the kind of speculation that TV does,” said Kathie Skerry, a Boston-based blogger whose detailed “Veronica” reports on givememyremote.com got her an invite to the press-day event. “Logan (Echolls) can make some snide comment, and there are 15 different ways you can look at it. When things like that happen, people want to discuss what they see and what it means for the future episodes of the show.

“Since I started blogging, the way I view TV has changed. I feel like it's a whole different experience watching a show knowing that as soon as it's over, I can get online and talk about it.”

This made me think about my earlier post, where I speculated that TV shows were able to push the envelope of narrative complexity precisely because there are so many resources available to fans to keep track of it all. In a sense, one of the big distinctions between print and moving picture media, that with a novel (for example) you can leaf back in the pages and refer to something if you lose your place, but in a movie or TV show you can't do that, you can only go forward as fast as the creator wants you to-is no longer true. Remember Jane Austen's famous quote about the "tell-tale compression of the pages" at the end of Northanger Abbey? Now it's a progress bar in iTunes.