This is the 23rd post in our “How I Blog” series. To read the rest, visit the archives. Interested in participating? Drop us a note about ‘How I Blog’ along with a photo or yourself or your blogging space at tips [at] blogmedia [dot] biz.
Wayne Yang, Freelance Writer, Photographer, Blogger.
Sometimes my blog looks like a photoblog. Other times it’s text heavy with reams and reams of I/O I/O I/Os.
My blog used to be more of a grab bag, an electronic scrapbook of articles, book excerpts and electronic marginalia, unruly and bursting at the margins in which I’m forced to (self)-publish. These days, I’m more focused instead on my personal writing and photography. Recently, I’ve started using my blog to conduct interviews of photographers, writers and editors who I want to meet online. We never get to see eye to eye, and yet I get to ask them for their deepest thoughts. My blog changes as my interests change.
I read an interesting article this morning that, while not directly blogging related, seemed to best fit as blogged here. As bloggers, our jobs often overlap with Search Engine Optimization, web promotion, advertising, and the ilk.
Needless to say, the story from the Technology Liberation Front alarmed me. The story is that a Senator from South Carolina has introduced an amendment to legislation that would illegalize Google’s “sponsored links” program where advertisers have the opportunity to buy prominent positions in search results. read more
This is the 22nd post in our “How I Blog” series. To read the rest, visit the archives. Interested in participating? Drop us a note about ‘How I Blog’ along with a photo or yourself or your blogging space at tips [at] blogmedia [dot] biz.
This one is a little different. Our friends over at The Man Blog offered to share their own blogging manifesto known as ‘How We Blog’. I’ll warn you now – if you’re easily offended, don’t read this.
We’re not normal. I mean, come on, let’s face it. Most people still don’t understand RSS,feeds and the concept of web syndication. Some people think RSS is the email killer. Others don’t. Chances are, if you read this blog, you’ve got a feed-reader chock full of subscriptions. If you’re like me, you even subscribe to searches on your own name.
But there’s still a real barrier for normal everyday people to fully grok RSS and its benefits. Devin Reams mourns this barrier: read more
Summer camp directors have a new scourge, and it is not mosquitoes or impetigo. It is the Internet, specifically sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, where young people often post personal or revealing information.
Camps say they are increasingly concerned about being identified in photographs or comments on these sites, even innocuously. They worry about online predators tracking children to camp and about their image being tarnished by inappropriate Internet juxtapositions
Seriously, isn’t this getting just a tad bit overblown?
I’ll leave it to Chris to outline all of the design choices that he made – and why. He also writes quite eloquently and in quite some detail about the backend shenigans that he pulled to make this design provide the functionality that we were looking for.
