Red Sweater software bought MarsEdit in February of this year. They came out with some minor updates right away, which was nice because MarsEdit hadn’t been updated much since the original release. Those minor updates were helpful, but today’s release of version 2.0 of MarsEdit is a nice jump. Better integration with media through a […]
CNet tries to map out the early days of blogging in an article today.
Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?
They […]
The Sunday LA Times (print only) has a review of “Realty Blogging” which is a book about how realtors can use blogging to improve their business. One of the authors is a “blogging coach,” a term I haven’t see before but which might be something to consider. The book is a guide for anyone getting […]
The blogging class has only one student enrolled, so it’s probably not going to happen for February. I’ve stopped working on the course materials but will resume at some point since the class that meets in April has a better chance to get enough students. That one meets at the main UCR Extension building and […]
I’m scheduled to teach a one day, 3 hour class on blogging for UCR Extension on February 24th. That one meets in Palm Desert. Another version of the class will meet on April 17th in Riverside. It’s going to be part demonstration and part hands on with discussion and questions throughout. I’m working on the […]
I borrowed a copy of Blog Design Solutions at the new Temecula Public Library today. It goes into quite a bit of technical detail on blogs. In particular, they cover 4 blogging platforms — Moveable Type, Expression Engine, WordPress, and Textpattern — in depth, showing you how they work and how to modify them. There […]
I had unchecked all the ping sites when I set up this blog, so it was not indexed by any search engines. I’ve fixed that and added a few more ping sites. In a few days, things should be working better. I also installed the sitemap plugin and set that up, and I added the […]
I am using the PressRow theme. It makes the site look like the New York Times, I think, but it is much more readable than other themes I’ve used. There are some quirks though. I don’t like the default image handling settings which run the text right into the image. You can’t use vspace and […]
Jay Mathews at the Washington Post is looking for the best education blogs. He’s going to run a contest to find the best blogs about education. Walt Gardner, retired teacher and prolific writer of letters to the editor, is going to help him as a judge. It sounds like it will be interesting. Based on […]
The guy who posted the emails from Mark Foley to a high school student which led to Foley’s resignation from Congress and was just one in a string of Republican mess ups leading up to this week’s election is the subject of a story in the LA Times today. Lane Hudson kept his identity hidden […]
Another Robin Good article — he points to Robert Scoble’s presentation, 10 Ways to a Killer Blog, but his headline says 15 points to a Killer Blog. Which is it? Actually, both are right as the title says 10 and there are actually 15 points. I think this is supposed to be an example of […]
Setting up a site with Adsense and RSS feeds sounds like a no effort money maker. The problem is that it doesn’t work. Robin Good explains in his entry today, AdSense Money Machine? The Problem With PLR Articles And Automatic Content Generators.
The time for littering the web with fake automated content is over. Use […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
My former colleague and collaborator at Apple, Bonnie Nardi, has done some interesting research on blogging. I really liked Why We Blog [PDF], which was a study of various people and why they started and continued to maintain their blogs. We read that paper in a couple of classes I taught and students enjoyed it. […]
The Dummies Guide to Google Blogger isn’t related to the the Dummies book on Blogger. A little confusing, but there are still some useful tips on the site. How to build traffic to your blog is one of them. Another one that comes in handy once in a while is how to change the order […]
Journler is a nice application for the Mac. It is designed for journals, as the name implies — actually, I thought the name was “journier” which is French for something, I think. Journler has a blogging feature, which is handy, but limited. You can post to a site, but you can’t edit the post once […]
