Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'Blogging'
At Gnomedex
I'm in Seattle for the Gnomedex conference today and tomorrow, aptly subtitled "The Blogosphere's Conference."
NCAA Bans Press Box Blogging
According to an AP story, under the NCAA's view, blogs are "considered a "live representation of the game" and blogs containing action photos or game reports are prohibited until the game is over." In fact, this came to light because the NCAA tossed Brian Bennett of the Courier-Journal from a baseball press box on Sunday for publishing live updates.
From The Comments: MovableType On Web Hosting
A belated shoutout to Earthling reader Mark Read who has installed blog software Movable Type on his EarthLink business hosting account. Check out his MT-powered blog at Goreads.com. Mark provides some tips and observations from his install:
A Conversation with Eric Mattson on Corporate Blogging
Rounding out this week in "EarthLinkers in the media", I had an excellent discussion with Eric Mattson of Jenerous.com yesterday about what I do at EarthLink, the value of blogs inside companies, and the ways we measure success, among other things.
Around The Horn With The Product Blogs
A summary of what's going on on EarthLink Product Blogs.
Hello EarthLink Bloggers
We're holding another blogging bootcamp conversation in our Atlanta location in a few minutes. We'll spend some time talking about how the guidelines in our blogging policy work in practical situations, and the rest of the session on whatever blogging-related topics come up.
WordPress Easy Install In Hosting Accounts
EarthLink Web Hosting accounts now offer easy installs of several oft-requested applications, most notably that most excellent blogging platform WordPress currently in use by 699,486 bloggers. Here's the full rundown of what's available:
Insights From A Blogging Boot Camp
We held an event in our Atlanta office today to talk about blogging, mostly as it relates to blogging about the company you work for. Earlier this year, Our Legal and Corporate Communications teams (with some input from me) put together an official Blogging Policy, and part of the goal of today's meeting was to have a conversation about it and how it works in practice.
More on The Masked Blogger at Apple and Anonymity
I think anonymous blogging can be as divisive to a company's culture as it can be a force for positive change. When there's no accountability for what's being said and no one knows whether or not the person they're talking to will be writing up their conversation as part of a larger crusade about the company, I think that can set collaboration and conversation back a few steps rather than advance it. I think blogging under a real identity creates a possible position of advocacy, but it's almost impossible to be a true advocate if no one knows who you are.
New Companies and Employees Blogging
Robert Scoble pointed to a couple of newish employee and company blogs in the past couple of days, Intel's IT@Intel and an anonymous blogger at Apple known as The Masked Blogger.
Who's Got Our Back?
What do you think? Is it better for us be more like Google and Apple, and generally stay out of the every day back-and-forth, or is it better for us to aim to be as vocal as Microsoft?
Bloggers On art
There was something really inspiring about the "Is Your Blog A Canvas Or A Gallery" Session at BlogHer. I've read similar reports from other audience members. It was refreshing to talk about personal publishing not as a marketing tool, a way to make money, a literal communications vehicle, or as a way to change the world in some grand gesture, but as a form of lowercase-a art. Or almost ritual. Something you just do. As both a maker and a reader of them, these kinds of projects have always been some of my favorite things online.
Blog Growth Still Doubling Every Half-Year Or So
David Sifry published another State of The Blogosphere report today, and the number of new blogs continues to grow at an astounding rate. Technorati now tracks over 50 million of them. Sifry makes the point that this growth (as true blogger growth) has to slow soon -- what fraction of the six billion plus people in the world are potential bloggers?
TypePad E-mail Issue Should Be Fixed
I got word over the weekend from SixApart that they'd fixed the problem with EarthLink addresses and TypePad. EarthLink e-mail addresses should now work fine for receiving TypePad system e-mail messages. Thanks to the TypePad operations people and the EarthLink e-mail administrators for getting that resolved.
New Orleans-bound
I'm headed down to New Orleans to participate in the Brain Jams unconference tomorrow, meet as many people as I can (bloggers and non), and learn more about how things are down there. If there's news on our efforts to...
Is Blogging Cooler Than A Firetruck?
A few of the kids really liked it though. Arvind's son wanted to write down the location of his blog so he could post more later. And one of the girls wrote several posts and didn't want to leave. I saw her later and she said blogging was cooler than a firetruck.
How To Use Your Pre-existing Tools To Try Personal Publishing
If you already have an AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger account (Sean, how about supporting MindSpring?), you've got what you need to dip your toe into the personal publishing world. If you also already have a blog or web site presence, this how-to can benefit you as well.
The Need To Be Something Online
Not only has the number of blogs Technorati is tracking doubled in the last six months (to 35 million blogs and counting), but according to Sifry's statistics, 55% of the blogs out there are still publishing new content 3 months after their birth. Over half of the people creating new blogs stick with them for at least three months. That number is up 5% from three months ago. On the downside, spam and junk blogs are rising rapidly as well. That's surprising to me. You'd think that as blogs go mainstream, more and more regular folk start blogs because they've been sold the idea of blogging, rather than having a need and seeking out blogging to fill it. But apparently many of the new bloggers are finding something satisfying in the process, as the new blogs that are going online today are sticking around at least longer than they were before.
Stay Classy, Blogosphere
Since the end of last week, a horde of bloggers have been getting in line to either condemn or lionize Robert Scoble's incendiary reaction to news reports about the delay of Windows' launch of their new operating system Vista. It feels like a compulsory writing assignment if you want to consider yourself an A-list blogger. Should I be covering this?
A Particularly Best Way To Share Audio Comments
The good people at Odeo blogged the other day about this neat little embedded audio recorder they built. Odeo is a site that lets you record and share audio through your computer or phone, and find podcasts and other audio recordings. It's free to sign up for a membership and get access to the tools. It took me five seconds, and then I was able to get this embedded audio recorder for Earthling.
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