Sunday, May 19, 2002

Ed Cone is a Professional writer, and now....a blogger.  "As someone who gets paid to write, the idea of writing for free seemed counterintuitive at first. But in my experience, writing more has made me a better writer. Meanwhile, the blog lets me publish work that might otherwise go unwritten." [Story Link] Via  [Scripting News] Yep.  And if blogs mean that professional writers will write things that they might not have written, then it is even more so for the average person.  This blog revolution has just started.   Wait until, say, twenty years from now when some blogger dies and it is discovered that the person had kept detailed online notes (some visible and some not) of basically their entire (post-cognitive) life.   Sort of like the Truman show, except with blogs. 12:53:07 PM

Blogging Books for Summer 2002 From Phil Wolffe  The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood. What's In Rebecca's Pocket? is her blog and its on my regular reading list. I haven't read it yet, but Handbook may wind up as a bulk purchase, giving out copies to friends and family for the holidays, and passing them around at work. At 144 pages, it is slim, hallmark of something people will read! We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture by same editors with an intro by Rebecca Blood. Sociology, speculation, mediacrit. Should be good for a laugh.  Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz Stone. The book's home page and Stone's blog.  Via [a klog apart] 12:26:11 PM

From Scott Rosenberg's Much ado about blogging, in Salon: [Doc Searls Weblog] 11:25:12 AM

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