Entries from October 2006

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Search Engine Blog

I like some of the stuff I’ve read on Paul O’Brien’s blog, SEO’Brien. He covers online marketing and search engine optimization and has experience doing that kind of stuff for HP and Yahoo. I wonder how he has time to share his expertise or why he does it. He did two items on Seach Engine […]

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Blogger.com ups and downs

I keep my work blog on Blogger.com and I have a couple of others on there too. It’s a nice service and has reasonably good tools and it’s free. Since Google manages Blogger, I figure it’s pretty reliable, but over the past three days it has been anything but reliable. Either very slow or just […]

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Blogger tips and Tricks

Blogger Tips and Tricks is a site devoted to things related to using Blogger. The most recent post deals with the switchover to the new version of Blogger, currently in beta. I think I will hold off on using the beta because you never know what kind of changes will be made and it’s not […]

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Waiting for the Rough Guide to blogging

I ordered the Rough Guide to blogging and look forward to getting it and reading it. I’ll post a review once I have it. If it’s anything like the Rough Guide to the Internet, I’m sure it will be a good book. There’s always something to be learned.

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Screencasts Online

ScreenCastsOnline is a unique video podcast done by Don McAllister. Each week, he creates a 15-20 minute tutorial about a Mac or web-based application. These screencasts are excellent in terms of production quality and they are nicely done as far as emphasizing the right points. In fact, watching a couple of them convinced me to […]

Friday, October 20th, 2006

elearningpost

The elearningpost blog is one of my favorites. It’s not updated multiple times per day or even every day, but the stuff on there is good. I lost track of it for a while, but now I’ve got it in my Google Reader list and check it weekly. It’s a little more wide ranging than […]

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Online Video Tutorials

Those screen videos, also known as screencasts, have become popular ways to learn to use software. The two big names that I’m familiar with are Lynda.com and Atomic Learning. Atomic Learning seems targeted towards teachers while Lynda.com is more for creative professionals. The prices and quality of each service is reflected in the cost. Atomic […]

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Stanford has one course on iTunes!

Open Culture points out that Stanford is moving beyond posting lectures to iTunes U and have now made a full course available to the public. The course is The Literature of Crisis which is a once week lecture you can download.
I’m not really convinced that people who aren’t enrolled in these free courses actually […]

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Rough Guide to Blogging

I really like those Rough Guide books — the travel books, the ones about musical genres, and I also enjoyed the Rough Guide to the Internet. They have recently published the Rough Guide to Blogging by Jonathan Yang. Positive customer reviews at Amazon.
The Rough Guide site has more info on the book, which costs US$12.99.
Jon […]