Radio Tip: [Dog News] Here's one way that's quite wonderful and integrated right into your weblog. Metalinker by Blogdex for instant blog gratification! Blogdex ( http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ ) has done it again: they've created another great tool for you to keep track of the weblog community's debates and discussions. It's easy... really... just go to ThinkBlank at http://www.thinkblank.com, add a little code to your weblog and that's it. The semantic web is taking shape, bit by bit... (you'll find out from your own weblog who's linking to your article (or not) and who's linking to your posted links (or not). This solution requires javascript, but other than that, wow... and you can put the thinkblank.js in your gems folder (just rename it thinkblank.txt) and call it with the txt extension in your homepage template. [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]
This is a good tool but it is not woven deep enough in the presentation layer of the blog. I don't want my blog to littered with "[b]". I want a more visually subtler intergration with the presentation layer. maybe I'll use it onli in one or two categories if it had value to the information.
Shirky: Weblogs and Publishing. (SOURCE:Clay's email newsletter)-Another must read from clay Shirky! A lot of people in the weblog world are asking "How can we make money doing this?" The answer is that most of us can't. Weblogs are not a new kind of publishing that requires a new system of financial reward. Instead, weblogs mark a radical break. They are such an efficient tool for distributing the written word that they make publishing a financially worthless activity. It's intuitively appealing to believe that by making the connection between writer and reader more direct, weblogs will improve the environment for direct payments as well, but the opposite is true. By removing the barriers to publishing, weblogs ensure that the few people who earn anything from their weblogs will make their money indirectly. [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
Most of us can't make money and it's OK. I am not maintaining a web log for profit but to share tidbits of knowledge somebody else could use.
