Paul: My Blogging Experence

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:44:16 GMT

Cool Photo App

Check out the new program by Albert Lai of Bubbleshare Looks like a winner to me.

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:46:27 GMT

First there were blogs, then wikis, then podcasts, now Wikicasts?.

J.P. Stewart revealed, in an IM message to me, another innovation: the WikiCast. I left a message over there. Anyone can. You just need to know the phone number to call and leave a message. It's a mixture of a Wiki, dial in audio, and RSS/podcasting.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:43:09 GMT

Dvorak teaches blogging to newbies, MSN desktop shortcuts site opens.

What a great into to this. I need to send this out to my friends who need some prodding.

John Dvorak: Understanding and Reading a Blog for Newcomers.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:44:21 GMT

My Leadership Jotspot is still in development so I was glad to see some analysis that matched my postive feel aobut the product.

JotSpot First Impressions.

Playing with JotSpot was once of the things I'd put off until the book was done. Tonight, I grabbed the intro email (almost 2 months old) and signed in.

One of the first things I wanted to do, naturally enough, was change the machine generated password to something I thought I could remember, so I went searching for the usual Preferences link and sure enough found it. What happened next, however, surprised me. When I clicked on it, I got just another wiki page with an edit button. When I edited the wiki page, I got a form instead of the usual freeform wiki entry box. The preferences forms are completely built inside the JotSpot form system. I liked that right off.

I worked through some of the examples in their cook book to get some experience with their forms. They're pretty slick, using the page metaphor to store data and create applications. I'v been intrigued for a while with this idea of pages as the basis for applications and this gives me some food for thought.

Overall, the execution is professional and things worked pretty well for a beta. There were a few times that I suspected it didn't like Safari (my browser), but I was able to work through the issues. For example, the default editing mode is "WYSIWYG" which requires IE. Seems like that would be easy enough to default to something else when someone is not using IE. Changing my default preferences to "Script Markup" fixed the problem.

The tool panel on the right hand side is context sensitive and customizable. I couldn't find out how to install what JotSpot calls "applications." Applications seem to be pre-packaged sets of forms and pages for a given task (like recruiting). There was a way to browse the gallery, but no way to install them on my Wiki even though some of them looked very cool.

All in all, I spent a fun hour playing around and seeing what Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer have been doing with their free time. I'm curious how JotSpot will be perceived by the market with respect to other wikis like SocialText or Twiki. (Bonus link: Analysis of JotSpot by the Twiki team.)

I think that regardless of feature set, JotSpot has a leg up because they're hosted. It feels like going to a Web site and starting to play around--something people are conditioned to do. JotSpot can thus sell to a marketing or sales person with a corporate credit card without the CIO or IT manager ever being involved. That's a huge win because it removes some significant friction from the transaction. If JotSpot is smart (and Joe and Graham are plenty smart) that's where they'll focus their marketing. Position JotSpot as the no hassle way to get things done that the IT department never seems to get to. They're well on their way with their CookBooks and pre-built applications.

[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:13:54 GMT

I will have to track down a copy of this in the AM.

Forrester report on corporate blogs. I just published a report on the corporate use of blogs, including best practices on when and how companies should be creating them. You'll need to have a subscription to Forrester to access the full report. Hereâ€™s the executive... [Charlene Li's Blog]

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:50:27 GMT

CNET posts video on RSS.

CNET has posted a cool video tutorial on RSS. Great to send your friends and coworkers who are wondering about what RSS is.

Thanks to Terry Heaton for linking to that. Yeah, that's on my linkblog too.

Update: Dave Winer is asking "where's the credit?"

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:14:11 GMT

A nice explanation.

Blog Tutorial | What is a blog ?. For more documentation on blogging with WordPress, visit Douglas Campbell's online blog reference : Intro to Blog What is a "blog"? "Blog" is a short version of "weblog", which is a term used to describe web sites which maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. One definition says, "A ... [Blog Portal]

Google,Blogs and blogweblog.com

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:00:22 GMT

An interesting story about Google,Blogs and blogweblog.com/

Since I don't have a google email adress I decided to do a search to see if I could score one. I ended up at one of those sites that has raffles and helps folks link up to swap/sell/share addresses. I spied an artiicle about a blog, http://www.blogweblog.com/ that would consider swapping an invite for link. I figured, what the heck and checked it out. Sure enough, this link http://www.blogweblog.com/ now is on my blog making me elligble. But the real interesting thihg about it was. I liked the blog!!! It contained the type of thing that interests me. That means I get to add ANOTHER blog to add to my aggregator plus I geta chance to get a google email invite. Such a deal! They had a whole area dedicated to inside stuff at google.

P.S. Please send google invites to PAULinMich at aol.com Thanks :)

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:26:39 GMT

Great ideas here. I have tried to interest people and they always say iut is to hard to do. THhis lets them see just how easy it is.

How to Start a Blog. I'm sure there's a million of these on the net, but I get asked occasionally by friends how to start a blog, so here's a collection of tips that I wrote to a friend recently. Now they're written down somewhere... [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Tue, 11 May 2004 01:39:51 GMT

Google unveils new version of Blogger. Google on Monday rolled out an updated version of its Blogger online self-publishing service. The new version features an enhanced dashboard, the ability to post blogs via e-mail, a shared comments function, and author profiles. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Maybe I need to fire up that old blogger blog of mine again.!

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:12:44 GMT

Rogers explains why Radio works so well. And why it is a great tool.

Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:15:09 GMT

How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces. Roland Tanglao: How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces. Read once, then start your own blog; a week later, read again and you'll be in the loop.

[Seb's Open Research]

Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:11:06 GMT

Free Movable Type hosting. [Scripting News]

Just in case I decide to move to Movable Type here is a place to host it for free.

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 01:53:58 GMT

Looks like aol is getting into teh blogging space. They call it journalling

Dave Winer talks about AOL's entry today.

Ahh, now the weblogs will start talking about "the AOL-ization" of the Weblog world. Just the same way we talked about the "AOL-ization" of the newsgroups back when the masses started coming online.

It's been a nice insular world until now. It'll be interesting to see it get bigger.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:30:46 GMT

Blogging Links Resource Guide. I've just uploaded my first draft of Blogging Links. On this page, you'll find hundreds of categorized links to weblog publishing, mobile blogging, blogging search engines and related resources and articles. Please comment and let me know if there are other resources that I should add. [Doug Fox -- The Future of Meetings]

Sun, 22 Jun 2003 02:27:31 GMT

new macro. I found the most wonderful script on the workbench. One macro and voila! All my posts on one page. Sweet! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Sun, 18 May 2003 17:00:54 GMT

Choosing Words with Care.

Zack Lynch offers 3 types of blog readers:

On reading side, there is a whole other set of categorizations to describe the different way people read blogs:

T-people: Title readers, rarely follow links, make quick opinions, probably RSS too many feeds
D-people: Deep readers, follow all links, think carefully about the blog, rarely comment
Q-people: Questioners, read quickly, follow most links, assimilate information, and comment frequently

I am sure there are many more, but you get my point.

And offers the advice to choose words carefully, but not to spoil the fun we are having.

[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]

Mon, 05 May 2003 23:33:07 GMT

Introducing people to Weblogs.

Quote: "Although weblogs began as vehicles for personal expression, they have become something much more. Because they tap into the heart of one of the web's great strengths, personal expression and control, and because they draw on the communication capacities inherent in an inter-network, they have become an effective means of distribution any digital content and at the same time a highly selective filtering and classification system for that content. Weblogs are, right now, the best the web has to offer, and they herald a new era in online process and interaction"

Comment: Stephen has a gentle introduction to weblogs for teachers and other weblog neophytes.[Serious Instructional Technology]

Thu, 01 May 2003 00:01:05 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead is working on a new book about Radio: "Radio UserLand Kick Start" He put a draft of the fist chapter on the Web. Says Roger:

"There's an amazing amount of stuff you can do with the software -- I can't think of another $40 program that supports Internet content management and publishing, information aggregation, programming, object-oriented database storage, and a long list of buzzworthy acronyms: HTTP, HTML, XML, FTP, XML-RPC, SOAP, and RSS."

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:20:52 GMT

Radio usability. Dave Pollard has collected great input from Salon bloggers on the usability of the Radio Userland blog tool. A lot of the concerns reported in there should inform the design of any blog tool. Question 1 is full of ideas on publicizing your blog. [Seb's Open Research]

Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:09:49 GMT

Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:22:02 GMT

SocialDynamX released a preview edition of its FMRadioStation. It looks like an interesting all in one type tool. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:11:44 GMT

Searching the Collective Mind of Your Blogroll.

Here is an interesting differentiation between google, weblogs and blogging.

Some times I want to know what the world thinks                        (google)

Some times I want to know what I think                                        (my weblog)

Some times I want to know what those I respect think                  (blogs I read)....

[The Shifted Librarian]

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:44:13 GMT

Ernie the Attorney: The three stages of blog-awareness. [Scripting News]

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:50:02 GMT

HipLogs

Just as I was getting the hang of blogs, something new arrives. Hiplogs let you send pictures and text to new basic blog via email. A directory of HipLogs. shows the folks just getting started. Photos of people doing dorky things. What else is there? [Scripting News]