2005-02-23
Notes on the Newbie Session - Bloggercon III
IT Conversations hosts the complete audio archive of the Bloggercon III held November 2004. My first stop was the Newbie Session, hosted by Rebecca MacKinnon.
quick notes:
* many use cases for blogging (keeping an open (text or rich media based) diary for oneself as an outsourced memory device, establish a way of communication between a defined set of people, establishing a sense of local community, addressing a global audience with ones expertise, increase marketability via corporate blogs, political activism, blogging as complementary practice for news organizations,...)
* when is a blog a blog and not just writing or a homepage? (sense of sharing, possibility of feedback and interaction via trackbacks and comments, broadening ones conversational networks,...)
* what is a good workflow for posting? which tools support them? (blogger.com good for starting out but lacks trackbacking [1], as you get into blogging and want more control over your layout you might want to look at Typepad, Moveable Type, Radio UserLand, Wordpress - but these tools do require some technical skills, some are hosted, some require your own server, lot of confusion...)
* RSS, aggregators (for taming your private information overflow, for improving the overall web experience, as filtered feeds in a corporate scenario, summary vs. full article feeds,...)
* blogs are not the only tools for communication, connecting interest groups, supporting corporate collaboration out there (Wikis, various groupware products, forums,...), but they do contain a hell of a lot of potentiality
[1] if anyone is interested in how I set up trackbacking here (a blogger.com blog), drop me a note.
[blog] [web] - trackback
quick notes:
* many use cases for blogging (keeping an open (text or rich media based) diary for oneself as an outsourced memory device, establish a way of communication between a defined set of people, establishing a sense of local community, addressing a global audience with ones expertise, increase marketability via corporate blogs, political activism, blogging as complementary practice for news organizations,...)
* when is a blog a blog and not just writing or a homepage? (sense of sharing, possibility of feedback and interaction via trackbacks and comments, broadening ones conversational networks,...)
* what is a good workflow for posting? which tools support them? (blogger.com good for starting out but lacks trackbacking [1], as you get into blogging and want more control over your layout you might want to look at Typepad, Moveable Type, Radio UserLand, Wordpress - but these tools do require some technical skills, some are hosted, some require your own server, lot of confusion...)
* RSS, aggregators (for taming your private information overflow, for improving the overall web experience, as filtered feeds in a corporate scenario, summary vs. full article feeds,...)
* blogs are not the only tools for communication, connecting interest groups, supporting corporate collaboration out there (Wikis, various groupware products, forums,...), but they do contain a hell of a lot of potentiality
[1] if anyone is interested in how I set up trackbacking here (a blogger.com blog), drop me a note.
[blog] [web] - trackback
