Monday, October 7, 2002

Writing better for the Weblog medium Good advice for how to write a Weblog A List Apart by Jeffrey Zeldman is one of my favorite sites. I got to know the Z-Man when I was running the edit side at CNET Builder.com and spending all my time focusing on Web builders. Zeldman is one of the clearest thinkers and finest communicators (to say nothing of superb designers) in the space. Some how, I missed this piece which Jeffrey published but didn't write. It's a good start on some basic ideas for writing a better Weblog. Obviously, not every blogger cares about this subject; the vast majority of people with Weblogs don't care if anyone outside their coterie of friends ever reads it. That's cool. But if you're one of those people who fancy themselves as having something worthwhile to share with the world and you want a bigger blog audience, read that article as a starting point. This is a topic to which I'm going to devote some substantial effort over the next few weeks, so maybe I'll have some things to say to amplify what Dennis A. Mahoney says in that article. 11:42:47 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

No Business Model YET The Mass Amateurization of Journalism? [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Clay Shirky gets most of it right. Dan's reservations echo my own. There will be a business model. It may require us to factor in co-opetition, information brokering, and bionomic models. But thinking about it is such fun! 2:05:43 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Commercial Use of Weblogs? Commercial Use of Weblogs? I may have created a monster. I was talking enthusiastically with a client this weekend about Web logs and how they work. He is an online marketer of some repute. He now wants to talk with me about putting together an eBook on using Weblogs as the next generation of online selling. He sees both the immediacy and the easy maintainability as being huge wins for folks who sell online information (eBooks, membership sites, eZine subscriptions, that sort of thing). Does anyone know of any examples of folks using Weblogs for such purposes yet or will my client be a pioneer if he heads in this direction? Any general thoughts (other than, "Omigod here come the spammers!")? 1:19:24 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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