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Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog
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Sunday, November 24, 2002 |
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Friday, November 22, 2002 |
My Blog Software Directory had grown to 14 pages and I have lots more I intend to add, but it was getting unwieldy for me to edit, and I suspect perhaps bandwidth hassle for some potential visitors, so I restructured the introductory content so as not to lose anything, but now have more focused stories.
Blog Books is something for you to print and hand carry to your local book store to help you look for particular titles, authors, publishers. It lists a dozen titles, with links to reviews, summary of some contents. Obviously I know more about some than others. (3 pages)
Blog Software is my directory of relevant software out there that I am aware of so far, in which I have populated some of them with what they have in common or different. (now 9 pages). I am contemplating further breaking this down into chunks by contiguous letters of the alphabet such as
Blog Software A - B (2 pages) over 20 such as Blogger variants
Blog Software C - F (1 page) over 20 such as Dairyland
Blog Software G - J (1 page) about a dozen such as Graymatter and Grok Soup
Blog Software K - M (1 page) about a dozen such as Live Journal, Manila, Moveable Type
Blog Software N - P (1 page) over 20 where I named them but not yet know much about them
Blog Software R - S (2 pages) about a dozen such as Radio Userland
Blog Software T - Z (2 pages) about a dozen such as Tinderbox, Web Crimson, Weblogger, Xanga
Blog Software Perspectives is the do-it-yourself Consumer Reports comparison of what your Weblogging Choices are. (2 pages)
Blog Software MT and RU collects links to various people opinions pros and cons different suites. (4 pages)
Blog Software Start is introduction for beginners to this Blog Software collection, like Radio Doc Sources Introduction and Radio Start are for Radio Doc Sources, so that experienced users can skip that verbiage and go direct to the meat. (2 1/2 pages)
Blog Software Types charts what is involved in the major different approaches, that I have conceptually figured out so far. (2 pages)
Link Services are for any weblog, not just Radio Users, a starting point for how to find out about other Weblogs that may be of interest to you. I need to add the Random Blog links here also. Much more to come here ... Search Engine Tips includes links to many services I have not yet checked out ... as I do so, I plan to write up here what each has to offer. Most of them here do not yet have much explanation. What happened was I had just started this thing, beginning to compare, then I got a flood of discoveries, whose links I put into the Search Engine Tips, planning to look into them later, and expand this. (1 page)
Enhanced Radio Tools is my directory of add-on software in which right now it includes stuff that works for Radio, plug ins for Browser, services for any Weblogging. Later I plan to split this up into Radio only, Browser only, general Weblogging, and perhaps some of the major categories in there such as Comment alternative systems. (3 pages)
Search Engine Tips include a score of Weblog Directories you might consider for registering your weblog. This is another story that has exploded in size and content that I may later split up by function: Traditional Places; Specialized Places; Weblog Places; Actual tips for using them; Links to tips for putting one or more on our weblog; Intro to all this. (10 pages)
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Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
Radio Wish: When we have something from News Aggregation, that we Post + Publish as is or edited or with some of our remarks upon on our site, the act of publishing it the first time causes a ping on the referers of where ever we got the data from. Perhaps if we revise the story, and republish, there goes another ping. This would automate notification of who is using our stuff, to help expedite our interaction with each other. Perhaps it could be in Preferences whether or not we want this happening.
2:22:44 PM
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Radio Referer Wish: I have previously stated a desire to get at something more than 24 hours ago, and sometimes think more about what kind of form I want it in, so that I can aggregate it into some kind of personal data base.
- Search engine hits ... what host sites are they using ... what text strings are they using ... give me the option of ignoring all the search engine hits and just list the real people
- Other webloggers - point me to WHERE on that web site the link to me came from, and to which of my pages it got directed.
Well my latest thought on this topic is that perhaps we could have additional columns on the chart.
- Date time of 1st connecton hit out there
- Date time of last connection hit
- The above two datums could then tie into preferences of how far back we want our referers to be stored ... for example ... I might normally want to allow for me not looking at the data for 72 hours, then after I got my fill - push a button to get rid of everything that is over 24 hours old.
- I would like little boxes beside them ... kill all these search engine and spammer links from My personal referer review
- The mass public sites would still show the same kind of data we now have, but when I am looking at my referers, I am more interested in who is quoting me, and other people interests that are following the threads of those quotes and discussion. Perhaps there are some other tools that I ought to be using to get a handle on this.
- I would like something at the very top of the referer list ... when by some miracle I have made it into the top 100 Ranking for the day ... let me know that factoid, so I only know to go look when in fact I am there
2:34:31 AM
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PC Question: How do I get rid of this new hassle? Every time I arrive at the News Aggregation page <http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/news#250> up pops Security Warning (mislabeled advertisement) Do you want to install and run Macromedia Flash Player 6, a quick free download? I select NO, then the next time I arrive at the News Aggregation page, there it is again. This started this week, since I got the same thing when visiting one of the sites found in my referers. I am not interested in downloading any more load onto my PC until it is obvious to me why I need this or that. I have a clog problem as it is, without adding more baggage.
1:39:00 AM
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Monday, November 18, 2002 |
Expanding on my previous post inspired by Phil Wolff on mapping the Blogsphere, we can discuss what we think might do the job effectively, then state a series of wishes for additional standards that apply to more than one vendor for this to work, assuming they are sufficiently motivated for it to happen. Here is link to other people comments on Phil Wolff idea.
There are a lot of sites that don't show up on the radar screens of search engines or weblog directories. Newbies who might delay self-registration until they get more self-confidence. Weblogs inside the intranet firewall of a business, school system, or government agency. People on project teams can have private multi-author sites known only to each other and need password to access the content. Some Blog Software is free unregistered until get paid services, or lacks the high environment options of the leaders. Pirates want a low profile. Do we want to count all of this in our blogsphere map?
Some Blog Software outfits claim 750,000 customers or some such number, and we know many not registered with weblog.com. Many can be inactive for a broad spectrum of reasons ranging from newbie got suck or hyper active ran out of disk space and continued on next installment space. Would some Blog Software places accept an outside audit of where they get their customer count, and who would pay for such an audit?
From this we can hopefully get ratios of total customer volume vs. weblog.com radar that are reliable proportions across consistent Blog Software Types (on line, off line, publish, community, etc.). I call this the radar ratio ... how much is out there as opposed to how much is actually on the radar screens. I think that journalists and researchers would be highly motivated to get a handle on what that is, and might be where the funding come from for my proposed audit.
Some Blog Software is more appropriate for educators, journalists, intranets, and other non-hostile labels of WHAT AM I motivation for weblog. On/off global radar screen probably vaies by types of such communities.
There must be at least 50 different directories of weblogs, and counting. There needs to be a registration service where it is easier for the beginner to fill in all the info about self, that the various services desire, and say to send this to ALL the directories, or NONE of them, or SPECIFIC ones. I am thinking of a page connected to the Prefs, in which there would be links to each of the directories basic info, so the blogger could say YES register me with THIS one also. An important part of this is WHAT AM I in terms of categorizing type of personal interests intended for this blog, which will change over time. We might need a variant per category. There should be some info pre-calculated here that you cannot change ... WHAT AM I in terms of what Blog Software.
I have seen posts saying this or that content focus is not a real weblogger, and the phraseology is invariably somewhat hostile. We need to come up with non-hostile labels and definitions linked to the self-registration page such that a person who really is that type of user vision for blog usage can say YES that is what I want to be or accomplish, and check off a particular self-assessment, or NO none of these match my self-image goals, so they optionally key in text describing personal blog goals.
Different directories for different purposes do want different info, and quite probably someone filling out their page will not have enough info to get properly registered at one or more Link Service directories. We'd want the rest of the input to get to the registration updates, leaving like an error list that you can individually click on and deal with - either cancel attempt to register with a site, or add the additional info they want. Later some services might want more info, leading to a new error message you want to deal with at your convenience.
Now the recently updated chart in weblog.com in addition to current info would have some WHAT AM I column(s), one being abbreviated which Blog Software like RU MT with unmistakable what we talking about, and another being user vision for blog, short form of the non-hostile labels, and perhaps link to the person's registration info page link, if that individual had checked off YES to making it available here.
This serves many interests. End users faster and more easily locate similar to self, and are inspired to update their own WHAT AM I page. Link Service directories combine how recently updated on weblogs.com with WHAT AM I classification, for all sorts of interesting correlations.
11:14:57 AM
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[Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ] Quotes [Phil Wolff: Blue Sky Radio] asking a question to which I think I can add some answers, starting with the notion that this is worth an occasional review and I agree that there are several tools that can be added to our collection to improve the picture. Take a look at past stories and posts that I have done of relevance.
- Sep 30 I did a post listing some Search Engine and Link Service directories of weblogs with how many known to each ... How do they find these places? Is it purely user registration and www.weblogger.com? Weblog Compendium lists 35 directories of Weblogs Look at Sebastien Paquet's Weblogs by Profession - How do Seb and friends locate sites to be listed? Can we do a SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guestimate) what proportion of such sites actually get found to be listed like this? Will this vary by profession? Can we help locate additional sites that should be added? Do weblogs appeal particularly to particular professions? Can we estimate what percentage of the people in a profession are likely to be turned on to this hobby?
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Link Services and Search Engine Tips include a score of places that try to keep score on what's going on in blogspace, for those bloggers who register with them. Perhaps we need some centralized service for all this, that is similar to www.weblogger.com but we also need something to count the secret sites that do not register with weblogger. Review my Sep 9 post about www.alexa.com because perhaps we need Link Services based on improvements to existing ones. Do places like www.blogrolling.com have statistics on how many people are using their services?
- I have found over 100 suppliers of Blog Software but only begun to categorize Blog Software Types. I suspect our hypothetical census will want to know how many of each combination type are out there. As I came across claims of how many this or that Blog Software out there, I added that to my Blog Software story. Also see my Sep 11 link to key info on the Wired article claiming 1/2 million weblogs on the Internet, with analysis of patterns of webloggers giving up on one kind of Blog Software and starting over with another.
I might also add some questions to the survey.
- Proportionally how many posts are never quoted by other people, how many get quoted / copied at least once, how many get multiple copied? Of those bloggers doing quoting / copying, what proportion of copies are done with proper credit, just copied without comment, commented on by the person copying the material?
- Which weblog software providers claim to have some number of customers, and are they willing to open that portion of their books to some kind of outside audit to validate those claims?
- Can ISPs or Search Engines tell whether a web site is a weblog, or something else? Can information from ISPs and Search Engines be combined to count how much volume is on various domains that is what kind of web site?
[Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ] from [Phil Wolff: Blue Sky Radio] QUOTE
We need a census of blogspace..
A friend of mine asked: how many webloggers are there? This is like "How big is the Internet?"
I searched through Nua and a dozen other internet sites and haven't seen any research on the size of the blogosphere.
I ask you:
- Do you have an educated guess?
- Do you know of any prior work in this area?
- Can you think of a methodology or two to create useful measures of the number of bloggers and the number of weblogs?
- What related questions would you want answered?
- How might you use this information?
- Pitfalls to avoid?
- Would you join a BlogCensus.org to provide and share stats?
My wild stabs:
- Do you have an educated guess?
- Do you know of any prior work in this area?
- Can you think of a methodology or two to create useful measures of the number of bloggers and the number of weblogs?
- Some vendors host weblogs and have relevant stats. We could add those up.
- We could look at download and registrations from the top 5 vendors, and add fudge factors to cover other tools and disadoption rates
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What related questions would you want answered?
- LiveJournal.com, has a statistics page: (numbers as of 10 November 2002)
- Total users: 770910
- Users that have ever updated: 635168
- Users updating in last 30 days: 280213
- Users updating in last 7 days: 200543
- Users updating in past 24 hours: 72587
- Gender:
- Male: 201452 (36.3%)
- Female: 354085 (63.7%)
- Unspecified: 131153
- Account Type
- Free Account: 718109 (93.2%)
- Early Adopter: 14282 (1.9%)
- Paid Account: 36718 (4.8%)
- Permanent Account: 1218 (0.2%)
- Country of origin (Mostly English-speaking)
- US state of origin (California, New York, Florida, Michigan lead)
- Age distribution (mode=17)
- Client usage (90% web)
- Activity: posts by day overall (147k posts last Wednesday) Per-person would be interesting too.
- New accounts per day (eyeballing a chart it looks like 900-1400 new LJ users per day, averaging about 1100)
- I'd love to know:
- How many entries have ever been blogged? (the cumulative number of posts).
- How many links in posts? (excluding blogrolls and navigation)
- What blogging tool or service they're using?
- Blog lifecycles:
- How long to bloggers of various stripes blog?
- How many change hosts? Change tools?
- Why do people abandon blogging?
- Is there a critical mass, a minimum number of posts per day/week/month that separates those that blog from those that fail?
- Of people who take a break, how many start again?
- Number originating within a company or operating behind a firewall
- Connection speed (does broadband make it easier to blog?)
- Payload distribution. How many people include pictures, sounds, flash games, or movies? How many bytes are home pages?
- Syndication. What percentage syndicate their sites?
- Duplication/Overlap:
- How many blogs per person?
- Do you post to them equally? How many are updated daily/weekly/monthly?
- How many tools do you use?
- What ancillary tools do you use?
- Graphics and other media
- News readers
- HTML editors
- email clients
- blog-specific search (daypop, google)
- blogosphere navigation (blogdex, blogtree)
- How might you use this information?
- As a blogger.
- Always good to know where I stand in relation to the pack.
- Trends might tip me to new capabilities
- As a consultant or IT leader.
- Make better choices about deploying blogging and community tools
- Use the "bandwagon" sell when appropriate
- As a blog tool maker.
- Understand the markets I serve vs. the ones I don't
- Pitfalls to avoid?
- Hype
- Irreproducible results
- Bias - vendor, country
- Would you join an BlogCensus.org to provide and share stats?
- As a user, with anonymity.
- As a vendor, sure.
What say you? [Phil Wolff: Blue Sky Radio] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]
2:26:55 AM
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Weblogger Hosting Tip: If you running out of disk space for your weblog, you might check out this possibility. One of my Southern Indiana neighbors in the world of personal web pages is www.greeblie.com (the other one that I have found so far is http://www.countermoon.com/) who is considering offering free hosting for a limited number of experienced journal-type bloggers (Dave not looking for pundits and lookie-heres). I am now at 70% of my 40 meg and falling, and there is a lot of stuff I am not posting because I know it will accelerate my fall, but my interests are all over the map.
1:38:30 AM
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
This month I have continued to update many of my stories. Those with the most additions and updates are shown below with links to the respective stories. The most volume of recent input to my stories categorized here as NEW A B C D.
- Alternate Realities - This Science Fiction Topic has nothing to do with Radio or Weblogging how-to. Here I basically try to explain the Games Dimension, with a few movies, and I plan to do books later. This is NEW in the last few days. It could well be that this concept is so alien for some people, that it is as difficult to explain to newbies as it is to do documentation for weblogging.
- Blog Books - still stands at a dozen choices - I have now got my hands on a couple of them, and I have inserted brief overviews of what their contents are all about. C
- Blog Money = a few more ideas. D
- Blog Software directory - I have not added much in the way of new links to software providers, but rather most of my recent additions have been expanding details about what each has to offer that is different, and links to more info. A
- Blog Software Types - this is a NEW story (2 pages long) started today, supplementing my Blog Software directory, by helping understand the fundamental differences that are out there - off-site / on-line / Radio mixture, and stating major advantages and disadvantages with each kind.
- BPCS Doc Sources - This has nothing to do with Radio or Weblogging. BPCS is the ERP at my day job. Documentation Sources is a recurring hot topic in some discussion groups, so I thought I would create something conceptually similar to Radio Doc Sources, and this is a NEW story (8 pages so far) built up this weekend.
- Link Services is a story that I started last month, and periodically been adding to, with respect to syndicating your weblog. D
- Heaven Dimension - This Science Fiction Theology has nothing to do with Radio or Weblogging how-to. I have been a long time Science Fiction fan of Alternate Realities and I came across a depiction of Religion in a novel that I thought was extremely well done, although to some people this might seem a rather controversial notion. NEW
- Radio Doc Sources - directory of links to different people who supply documentation for Radio users ... just a little amount added so far this month. D
- Radio Start = a few more links for beginners. D
- Search Engine Tips - this keeps growing with links to cool things we can get from different sites. C
- Understand Radio Categories = additional nuances. C
- Understand Radio News Aggregation got a major rewrite expansion (now 6 pages), to clarify some jargon and concepts that had not previously been spelled out in what I thought was a satisfactory manner. I am now making heavy use of analogies, comparing aspects of this to how TV News shares the headlines. A
- Understand Radio Referers - periodically I add additional nuances to this big picture. D
4:14:00 AM
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Wednesday, November 06, 2002 |
Radio Weblogs Wish: I have checked the preferences box to notify www.weblogs.com when my Radio Weblog is updated. There are various other services that feed off of this, that I talk about in my stories about Link Services, Search Engine Tips, etc. My updates are often in the area of the individual stories, most of them have to do with some Radio Documentation, or Blog Software in general, but the latest one I working on is a Science Fiction topic. What seems to show up on www.weblogs.com is the url for my general home page. It might be nice if it was the url of what changed or updated, unless the story I working on is not quite ready for people to see yet. So here is my idea for a future variant on the current service.
On the page where we do the Preferences to notify www.weblogs.com there would be a secondary box ... if we are updating stories do we want what is sent to www.weblogs.com to be the url of our home page or the individual stories we just updated? Then on the page where we have a submit button to input the text to some stories we just added or changed, there would be another check box (only if notifying www.weblogs.com had been activated by us on the regular Preferences) where we would have the option for this particular update to just have our regular home page url be what goes to the folks viewing www.weblogs.com - this way we can have the best of all possible worlds.
Some people may continue to keep their stories hidden from public view until ready to share them, while other people can make it easier for people to see what stories just got updated or added.
12:36:13 PM
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Tuesday, November 05, 2002 |
Radio Tip for Macintosh lovers: Previously WYSIWYG editing of Radio Weblogs was only available for PC Windows users via Internet Explorer, but now you too have this option.
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] QUOTE
I'm quite pleased with the response so far to the screenshot of our Simple Blogging Tool. The idea came about while designing the ultimate 'idiot-proof' weblogging tool. First of all, it can't be done. Nothing can be that simple :)
I've retained Marcus for several months now, he's been developing what will result in a Radio UserLand tool that prsents you with a simpler interface, and an all new wysiwyg editor box, now also available for the Mac.
Bonus: The tool now also includes Dutch localization. UNQUOTE [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
12:23:04 PM
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Radio Tip: Check out http://www.blogrolling.com/ I found out about this in the book Blog On by Todd Stauffer (see Blog Books for more info on that book and many others), then I went to the Blogrolling site to start reading their documentation. Over 80,000 sites have been Blogrolled using this service.
Doubtless you have seen many people maintaining long lists of navigation links on the sides of their web pages. I plan to explain about that in my Link Types story, but in the mean time use Jenny Levine's Radio Docs 101 how to. For someone, like me, who is a relative beginner to HTML, it seems like a big hassle to maintain this kind of thing. Well let http://www.blogrolling.com/ do the dirty work for you. Allegedly it can work for any of the major Blog Software choices. I plan to write this up in one or more of my stories, after it sinks into my brain which one it belongs in. You go to this url, register (it is free), and create YOUR blogroll, where your links will be stored. They provide the code to be inserted in our Radio for it to display the blogroll provided - documentation to read because Radio is but one of many software packages that can use this.
Once we have populated whatever we want to populate into this http://www.blogrolling.com/ service, we will need to republish Radio, from Open Radio Application / Radio / Republish, or whatever the equivalent deal is for people on some other Blog Software. Jake Savin has written up documentation for how to make this work for Radio Outliner.
There's a couple different ways to add more to the list. You can do one at a time type in title, description, url, then let http://www.blogrolling.com/ manage the collection for you, or you can get a Bookmarklet (I thought that was a Moveable Type feature that Radio Userland did not have, but now I see it is an optional feature added to our Browser ... see my MT compared to RU story) on your Browser Favorites toolbar. When you surfing the Internet and see a cool site you want added to your Blogroll, you can click the Bookmarklet, and up pops a window for you to edit what you want to say about this site, click add, and now it is added to your Blogroll. Your Radio Application does not need to be running on your PC, because this is added to your Blogroll at the http://www.blogrolling.com/ site, thanks to communications from your browser, while your Radio weblog has a standard link to this outfit.
http://www.blogrolling.com/ provides us with cut and paste code to put in our Radio Template Preferences so this will work. At least that is the theory. I have not tried it yet. You need to visit http://www.blogrolling.com/ to backup your Blogroll because what is on your PC with Radio is the code to access your Blogroll in http://www.blogrolling.com/
This is integrated with www.weblogs.com
Careful, you do need to read the FAQ on this.
12:21:45 AM
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Monday, November 04, 2002 |
Radio Wish: When we use News Aggregation to post something about some other person weblog, I would like that person to have something that is LIKE the Referers directory that lists who all used your RSS feeds today to post something on their sites, commenting on your stuff, and when we click on the connections, we would see not just their site, but where they doing the commenting on us. I would like this directory to NOT get wiped out at midnite, in which we would have access to a YESTERDAY directory of all the people who used RSS as basis of comment links to our stuff.
This would not get people who accessed our site directly using copy shortcut. What this does for me is several benefits: One, it automates polite notification of people that we used their stuff. Two, we find out sooner about the links. As it stands now, unless we post a comment or e-mail to other person site, the first they know about the quotation is when someone else links to their site from seeing what we said. This would make for faster discovery of people who are interested in your stuff, and faster notification of any problems with our presentation.
11:43:41 PM
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I have seen mention before of the importance of placing keywords on our web sites to tell search engines about the general content, but I ntever before had figured out where or how to insert this.
I am skimming through the book Blog On by Todd Stauffer. He addresses that issue by says that we need to dig into our HTML templates and add some metadata code, in which he gives specific examples:
- below head
- title of our site
- meta name keywords followed by content such as
- blog, exploring Radio Userland, comment on computer news, books
- (which I think need to be names, very short things)
- meta name description followed by content in the form of a sentence list such as
- A weblog that comments on hot topics in the news, and explores how to work weblogging, through Radio Userland.
Radio Question: I skimmed through my Radio Preferences trying to figure out where I am supposed to put this stuff. I first thought HOME PAGE TEMPLATE but I not even saw the title of site there. It is obviously working, so it must be arriving via a macro. I am speculating that the meta name description is handled by our site description, and what I need are the keywords. I was wondering if there is a preference where the only thing we enter in is list of keywords we want to supply to search engines.
Radio Wish if I wrong about this = add a preference to do exactly that.
10:59:35 PM
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Al Stories recently updated within the last couple weeks.
- A list = most heavily updated recently, in terms of volume of new stuff added to the story.
- Understand Radio News Aggregation
- After explaining the basics, I have links to other people documentation, and it is that latter section which has had a dramatic increase.
- B list = quite a bit of stuff added but not as much as on the A list
- Search Engine Tips
- Inspired by a recent question in our community, this story now has approx 20 portals or directories of key sites to register our weblogs, not counting the humongous collection of search engines. Most of the 20 have working links. You might want to print this story, then check off which weblog directories you already know about then for those that are new to you, check them off as you check them out.
- C list = several recent updates, but not as much as above - typically one or two sections added.
- Blog Books
- currently stand at a dozen, plus I have links to where you can find reviews
- Blog Software
- (directory - I think this is now over 100 - I not counted recently)
- Blog Software MT and RU
- Enhanced Radio Tools
- Most recent addition was in the area of new links to various places with commenting support.
- Understand Radio Referers
- This clarifies understanding of
- actual links vs. active links
- spam links
- referer links
- D list = almost trivial, such as adding one or two additional links.
- Blogs worth revisiting
- Etiquette On-Line
- Link Types
- Now up to a dozen different types demystified
- Radio Doc Sources
- Understand Radio Categories
- Radio Start
- Radio url number system
I had intended to put posts like this in a format such that all the links working on categories, with me adding to the directory periodically, but a short cut experiment failed miserably. I now thinking I will use a story that is as of some time frame, that has directory of links to my stories, with a little bit of info on each and some kind of list hash marks at the end ... currently I use a note pad with list of stories I recently worked on, then hash marks after title to show volume of updates ... A list has like 10 hash marks for example, since last time I shared this kind of directory.
9:54:54 PM
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Friday, November 01, 2002 |
[Radio Free Blogistan] QUOTE
Question: Where are the key sites to register your blog?
Answer: I would say Eatonweb, Blogdex, Daypop, maybe Yahoo and the usual directory places, blo.gs? Bloghog? Bloghop? Blogsnob? Blog Hot or Not? The list is potentially endless, but what are the essential portals or directories of blogging today, assuming they exist?
UNQUOTE [Radio Free Blogistan]
See links to most of these places in my Search Engine Tips, and I just added reminder notes to hightlight those where you might want to register your weblog. My emphasis has been on how to increase search engine traffic to your web site without you investing any $ other than your time improving your weblog. I want to see what's practical for free before reviewing what benefits are worth paying for.
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