English Language Blogs Have Narrow World View

B.L. Ochman on Rebecca MacKinnon and more...

English language media, and particularly American bloggers are xenophobic, says former CNN bureau chief turned blogger Rebecca MacKinnon. If they even cover world events, she says, they cover them very simplistically and only link to what mainstream media covers in rest of the world. Because of their narrow view, they miss a lot of stories and trends. "There are huge blogging communities developing around the work telling you stuff that you'd never get from mainstream media," she says.

In 2004, MacKinnon left a six-figure job at CNN, where she was Tokyo Bureau Chief and correspondent, to do a fellowship at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. It is an absolutely worthwhile tradeoff, she says emphatically. She wanted to experiment with ways a journalist could use blogs to go beyond traditional reporting. "I feel that I am in the middle of new media innovation, working with people on the cutting edge of where media is going in the future," MacKinnon says.

Carnival of the Vanities at Sophistpundit

Blog Business World

"The 145th edition of the longest running internet blog carnival, the well known Carnival of the Vanities, is up at at Adam Gurri's political and philosophical blog known as Sophistpundit.

Carnival of the Vanities is the original collection of blog postings, assembling some of the best and wide ranging bloggers on the internet.

This week's Carnival of the Vanities entries include politics, literature, science, medicine, technology, business, culture, comedy, and sports."


We got to meet "Silflay Hraka", the creator of the Carnival of Vanities, and even share a few beers with him after the Triangle Blogger Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) ((Earth)). A swell gentleman with good ideas.

Wiki Inventor Pitches Openness to Content Managers

Ed Cone interviews Wiki's Jimmy Wales

"Wikis are really a social innovation, not a technological one."

Blogboro's own Ed Cone interviews the creator of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, who will be attending the ConvergeSouth conference in Blogsboro (Greensboro, NC) in October. Read this excellent interview, then sign up for the conference, which still has room for you and yours. Speakers include:
Amanda Congdon - Rocketboom
Michael Brown - Cobb
Dave Winer - Scripting News
Ed Cone - EdCone.com
Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
Tiffany Brown - BlackFeminism.org
Sandy Carmany - Political Blogging
Nancy McLaughlin - Front Pew
David Hoggard - Hoggs Blog
Ruby Sinreich - Orange Politics
Ted Vaden - columnist (News & Observer)
John Robinson - The Editor's Log
Lex Alexander - Lex Files
Bob Steele

Blogcritics.org

"A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics."

Free Ethics Books

from Online Books 4 Free

Including:
- All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things
- A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
- Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1922) by Emily Post
- Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
- Getting On in the World: or, Hints on Success in Life by William Mathews
- Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
- Manners and Social Usages (1887 edition) by Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood
- Good Morals and Gentle Manners by Alexander Murdoch Gow
- The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion (1858 edition) by Margaret C. Conkling
- The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione, ed. by Walter Raleigh
- The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness by Cecil B. Hartley
- The Gentlewoman's Companion, or, A Guide to the Female Sex by Hannah Wolley
- The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility, in Manners, Dress, and Conversation by Emily Thornwell
- The Laws of Etiquette: or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society

Tips for effective use of blogs

Blogging Blogging for Fun and Profit

San Francisco Chronicle wrote Tips for effective use of blogs for businesses, on May 5, 2005. It was written having business blog in mind...

The tips mentioned are:
-make it clear the goal of your blog
-know your audience
-blog is not an advertisement
-don't take individual or political blogs as a business blog model
-figure out who will write the blog
-promote the blog
-plan for the long haul
-post regularly and frequently

Who Let the Blogs Out?

by Biz Stone, Genius



I just got through reading "Who let the blogs out?" by Biz Stone, and am going to heartily recommend it for anyone wanting to learn about the past, present and future of blogging, particularly business blogging. As Stone says, "Blogging will make you smarter", but it will also make you richer, and he gives the reader tips on how to make it happen.

Among his tips is this one:

If you use Google's AdSense, you will probably do better to have the ads appear on each post, rather than simply on the main page...as the ads will be targeted to the contents, which are usually more discernible on each post, rather than the entire page in aggregate. Of course, the ads don't appear on each post as they appear on your main page, but only appear as each post is seen individually.

So, how do you make such a change? Simple. Find the AdSense script in your template, and, in brackets, place the term "ItemPage" before the script, and "/ItemPage" after the script...which even says "script". In place of "quotations marks" you will use instead, < >. (I know I am making it sound more difficult, but I can't use the code on here, or it will try to read it, instead of printing it.)

Stone covers nearly every aspect of blogging, and does it will style, wit and the knowledge experience affords. From Dave Winer's early creations to blogs as weak-tie machines and bizblogging, to tips for improving your blog, to political and community blogging, the book covers it well, and keeps you turning pages all the while. I finished it within a couple of hours.

Delightful and instructive...as a good book should be.

-Dave

Pregnant Quotes

"There are five kinds of companies: those that make things happen; those who think they make things happen; those who watch things happen; those who wonder what happened; and those that did not know that anything had happened." - Anonymous

"Marketing is so basic that it cannot be considered a separate function. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.... Business success is not determined by the producer but by the customer." - Peter Drucker

"You cannot bore someone into buying your product". -David Ogilvy

"Create the possible service; don't just create what the market needs or wants. Create what it would love." - Harry Beckwith

"Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.” It is a set of general principles — distilled over the course of the twentieth century, spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering, and management.... During the last thirty years, these tools have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional, economic, political, ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a sensibility — for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character." - Peter Senge

If I face a human being as my Thou, and say the primary word I-Thou to him, he is not a thing among things, and does not consist of things. Thus human being is not He or-she, bounded from every other He and She, a specific point in space and time within the net of the world; nor is he a nature able to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. But with no neighbour, and whole in himself, he is Thou and fills the heavens. This does not mean that nothing exists except himself. But all else lives in his light. Just as the melody is not made up of notes nor the verse of words nor the statue of lines, but they must be tugged and dragged till their unity has been scattered into many pieces, so with the man to whom I say Thou. I can take out from him the colour of his hair, or of his speech, or of his goodness. I must continually do this. But each time I do it he ceases to be Thou. - Martin Buber

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Alan Kay (Father of the Personal Computer)

The blog is the killer app

Blog: The killer app

Once upon a time, email was considered the "killer app", or the piece of software that was going to revolutionize something or another. Well now email is largely just a pain in the fundament, and the blog is fast becoming the new killer app. Jut what at what it is doing to news, communications, marketing, business, education, politics...and yet email was around in the 80's, and took nearly a decade to catch on. Blogs are spreading like wildfire. And for good reason! Just look around this site and you will see hundreds of ways in which it is changing the world of business, marketing and communications, and so much else.

If you would like to share your success stories, please drop us a comment, and let's talk.

-Dave

Blogopaedia

Some useful links for bloggers:

All Consuming - aggregates what the weblog community is reading.
Annotated New York Times, The - tracks blog postings that cite articles published by The New York Times.
blogcount.com - Blogcount asks: How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject.
Blogdex - Blogdex is a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory tracking the diffusion of information through the weblog community. Ideas can have very similar properties to a disease, spreading through the population like wildfire. The goal of Blogdex is to explore what it is about information, people, and their relationships that allows for this contagious media.
Blogdigger : RSS / Atom Search Engine - Search Blogs Blogdigger is a search engine for blogs. Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.
Blogdigger also uses it's vast collection of blog content for novel applications:
Blogdigger Groups is a state-of-the-art online aggregator, providing RSS or Atom feed grouping into a single configurable page. A Group can be filtered either by blog or by keyword, and content is exported in RSS, RDF, Atom, OPML and OCS, making it the richest and most full-featured feed splicing tool available.
Blogdigger Link Search provides backlink checking, seeing which posts are linking to other online content, tracking the conversation as it evolves.
Blogdigger Media provides RSS feeds of recent media content for many well known media types (WindowsMedia, MP3, QuickTime, BitTorrent) that support RSS 2.0 enclosures. Subscribers to the Media feeds are automatically pushed links to media content of their choice.
BlogPulse - automated trend discovery for weblogs mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 blogs using machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
blo.gs
blogsearchengine.com
BlogShares - Fantasy Blog Share Market
BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and ...BlogStreet. BlogStreet India login faq. Blog Profile, RSS Ecosystem, Search &Directory, Blog Tops. Blog Profile, RSS Ecosystem, Search and Directory
Bloogz The Blog Search Engine: Bloogz The Blog Search Engine. ... Weblogs, Url. Search Blogs in. Italian, English,German, Español, French. All languages Order by Relevance
Daypop Top 40 Links - regularly updated list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world.
eatonweb portal
Globe of Blogs An index of weblogs as submitted by their authors. ... Globe of Blogs.
Intelliseek - Marketing Intelligence, Business IntelligenceUsing cutting edge technology, Intelliseek helps F1000 companies transformunstructured data into relevant, actionable insights.
memeorandum - following the latest meme of the political and news blogs.
Myelin: Blogging Ecosystem - ranks blogs that are the most linked and the most prolific linkers.
Popdex - web site popularity index.
PubSub PubSub is the world's first Internet-scale matching engine
Truth Laid Bear Blogosphere Ecosystem, The - application which scans weblogs once daily and generates a list of weblogs ranked by the number of incoming links they receive from other weblogs on the list.
Waypath - Blog Discovery Engine
Weblog BookWatch - tracks links to books and other media appearing on weblogs.
Weblogs, Inc. Weblogs, Inc. is dedicated to creating trade Weblogs (aka “blogs”) across niche industries in which user participation is an essential

Blogging, Podcasting & "Social Media" on Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins

Friday, April 15, 2005 at 9:00 AM on WFAE 90.7 FM Your NPR News Source

You can also dial in from the internet, like Iddybud from New York does.

Here is the description:
We'll explore a developing form of communciation on this edition of Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins. Dubbed "social media" by one of our guests, blogging and podcasting are two young stars of the internet landscape. Web logging or "blogging" has made regular citizens into political pundits, journalists and government watchdogs while podcasting is creating a new world of amateur talk hosts and making programming controllable for the every-day listener. Learn more about this on the next Charlotte Talks and join us by calling 704-926-WFAE (9323) or 1-800-603-WFAE (9323) or email charlottetalks@wfae.org.

What is Citizen journalism?

Citizen journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory journalism," is the act of citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. They say, "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires."

History

The public journalism movement emerged after the 1988 U.S. presidential election as a countermeasure against eroding trust in the news media and widespread public disillusionment with politics and civic affairs. Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, was one of its earliest proponents. From 1993 to 1997, he directed the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation and housed at NYU. More recently, he runs the PressThink weblog. Former Wichita Eagle editor Davis "Buzz" Merritt steered his newspaper in a public journalism direction and wrote "Public Journalism and Public Life," published in 1995. Academics and others who have written about the topic include Ted Glasser , Philip Meyer & his students , Arthur Charity, Lewis Friedland, Jeff Dvorkin , Leonard Witt , Herbert Gans , and Jan Schaffer.

Specter of regulation haunts political blogs

via KRT Wire