Blogging

Hammersley on TypePad...

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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Battle of the blog builders The standout feature is the template maker. Users can design their blog without knowing, or seeing, any HTML code whatsoever and with a very great range of control.

Other features include real-time statistics, posting by email, and automatic creation of Friend of a Friend data - instantly taking an experimental standard and taking it to the mainstream.

This looks very interesting. I have teachers who want to use MovableType, and would gladly pay to have it hosted...

Weblog Presentation

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Tonight I am making a presentation to a group about weblogs...

Background and Perspective

Weblogs: A History and Perspective... by Rebecca Blood

Understanding Weblogs, O'Reilly Net Article

Blogging Goes Corporate, Wired Article

Trent Lott Gets Bloggered, Online Journalism Review:

Weblog Software:

The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup

 

RSS:
Rich Site Summary, Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) Site Summary, Real Simple Syndicaton....

What is RSS?

Making an RSS Feed

 

News Aggregators

NetNewsWire

Newscrawler

Newsisfree

Syndic8

 

Sample Weblog Sites

Megnut

Zeldman

Vagabonding

Scripting News

Douglas Rushkoff

Dan Gillmor

NY Times News Headlines

Ms. Leake's Classroom

Will Richardson

Joe Luft

 

Jon Udell: High-tech PR in the age of blogs

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RSS holds the promise of becoming a key part of a company's media relations strategy and execution. [PR Tactics: Using RSS for corporate communications]

In short, I don't want you to pitch things to me. And I don't want your clients to pitch things to me either, at least not directly. I do, very much, want them to speak in their own authentic voices, about the technologies and products and services that inspire their passion, to everyone who might have a reason to care. I want your clients to explain what they do, how they think, and why their efforts matter. And so, of course -- and more importantly -- do current and prospective customers. [Jon's Radio]

Part of a series of pieces of how weblogs can be used to share information with customers. A good example of this is how Macromedia allowed several of their community mangager create weblogs associated with their product line.

The firm needed a way to quickly respond to questions developers might have as they use the new products... [Wired]

As Jon Udell mentions I don't want brochures and press releases, I want to hear the people who develop products and services talk about them and share their passion and knowledge. Same goes for the classroom too...

 

Another Day, Another MT Plug-In: OtherBlog...

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MT Plugin Directory: OtherBlog
Author: David Raynes
Description: Plug-in based way of including posts/info from other blogs on the same installation.

Just installed this one today and now we can route the excerpt of the most recent recommend book from the media specialist's weblog to the front page of the school web site. Plan to use this one to route art work from the art teacher's weblog to the front page.

Also discovered two others that are very useful. MTGrid adds tags to make tables or containers from data inside of MT. When used with Kevin Shays' Collect plugin the allow you to create a page of thumbnail images form your posts. I still need to figure out which category tags I need to use to pull out individual categories, but you can see an example on Ms. Avidan's classroom site.

Stepan Riha is the author of MTGrid and was very gracious in helping me to get MTGrid working.