Bloggers' Rights https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers Bloggers' Rights
One of EFF's goals is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.
To that end, we have created the Legal Guide for Bloggers, a collection of blogger-specific FAQs addressing everything from fair use to defamation law to workplace whistle-blowing.
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602 The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
Great diagram visualisation
You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers
Idiots Guide to Blogging http://www.idiotsguidetoblogging.com Idiots Guide to Blogging
IGTB is a blogging how-to offering tips and tutorials for both new and experienced bloggers.
State of the Blogosphere 2008 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ State of the Blogosphere 2008
Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments.
Since 2004, our annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the numbers of the Technorati Index to deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind.
For the first time, we surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and resources used to produce their blogs, and how blogging has impacted them personally, professionally, and financially. Our bloggers were generous with their thoughts and insights.
The Top 25 Blogs (from TIME) http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1725323,00.html The Top 25 Blogs (from TIME)
From millions of blogs about nothing, we've selected the 25 best about something—from politics and global affairs to shopping and sports. And, yes, we've got a few about nothing, too ...
History Timeline for Blogs http://tinyurl.com/yuhj4m History Timeline for Blogs ... in 2007 Blogs were ten years old
Edublog Awards 2007 Finalists http://edublogawards.com/edublog-awards-2007-finalists-announced/ Edublog Awards 2007 Finalists
We are delighted to announce this years finalists, and to officially open voting. Once you’ve had time to evaluate the finalists yourself, click through the category titles to vote.
A Tour Through Blogger http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g A Tour Through Blogger
What's a blog? => Publish your thoughts => Engage your friends => Design your blog => Post photos => Go Mobile => Get started
What is a Blogroll (definition at Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogroll What is a Blogroll (definition at Wikipedia)
"A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. When present, blogrolls are often found on the front page sidebar of most weblogs."
Blogs and Blogging: Videos and PowerPoints http://bloggingvideos.blogspot.com/ The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here.
If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this this button
International Blog Awards http://www.thebobs.com/ BOBS : Best of the Blogs
International Blog Awards .. useful if you are looking for some examples of what are considered good Blogs.
TEDtalks : Intimate Internet (video/talk) http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/ TEDtalks : Intimate Internet (video/talk)
Mena Trott is the 28-year-old founder of leading blog software company Six Apart (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:30)
Interview with Mena Trott of Six Apart http://www.twit.tv/itn/mena_trott_of_six_apart Interview with Mena Trott of Six Apart
Six apart os the umbrella company for some of the major blog platforms including typepad, movable type and the most recent "Vox"
This audio online interview gives you an idea of the growth of the company and what will be available in new versions to the blog hosts to come .. especially Vox
Mena is a very talented web designer and co-founder, with her programmer husband, Ben, of Six Apart, a company that publishes blogging software. They started with Movabletype, built Typepad, acquired Live Journal, and their newest blogging platform is Vox.
Blog Glossary http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary.html Blog Glossary
e.g.
Advocacy blog | Anti-idiotarian | Barking moonbat | Blawg | Bleg | Blog Digest | Blog mute | Blogathy | Blogerati | Blogger ecosystem | Blogopotamus | Blogosphere | Blogroach | Blogstipation | Captcha | DNQ/DNP | Dowdification | Fisk | Flame war | Instapundited | K Log | Landmineware | Meme | Permalink | Pundit blog | Splog | Thread | Trackback | Tranzi |
The Corporation in a Blogging World (Podcast) http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1067.html The Corporation in a Blogging World (Podcast Audio - Interview)
Scoble and Israel are the authors of the book Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, published in 2006. While many blogs started as personal journals, the authors believe that they can be an important way for businesses to interact with the public. This allows the blog to represent the corporation.
In an interview format, hosted by Shannon Clark, the event organizer, Robert and Shel discuss the background of their book, including its creation and development as part of a blog.
Much of the presentation is devoted to questions and comments from the audience, discussing such issues as the difference between group and individual blogs, as well as how corporate bloggers are dealing with the possible tension between authority and freedom of expression.
Webcasts about Blogs and Blogging http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Category:Webcasts Webcasts about Blogs and Blogging
e.g.
Welcome to the Blogosphere - PBS | Blogumentary | Online Ads for Nonprofits - Matt Turk of WordOfBlog | Report on Chinese Bloggers | Weblog Project |
EFF: Fighting for Bloggers Rights http://www.eff.org/bloggers/ EFF: Fighting for Bloggers Rights
EFF's goal is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.
To that end, we have created the Legal Guide for Bloggers, a collection of blogger-specific FAQs addressing everything from fair use to defamation law to workplace whistle-blowing.
copyright | intellectual property | blog | blogs |
Big in Japan : Blog Tools http://www.biggu.com/ Big in Japan : Blog Tools
Big in Japan is an integrated toolkit for prosumer bloggers.
We started off by building little widgets that helped us in our daily Web lives (for our consultancy Weblogs Work and our own blog projects). We built a URL shortener with Web 2.0 features called elfURL. And some other things. Then we decided that it would be even better to have an integrated workbench so we could mash up widget functionality as we liked. Enter Big in Japan is a set of Ruby on Rails apps touched up with with Ajaxian gee whiz-ardry. Built to mash.
PodServe | FrankenFeed | ElfURL | InstantFeed | SocialMail | FeedVault | MailFeed | QwikPing | FoneFeed | StatsTool |
Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they?e tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
Blogossary http://www.blogossary.com/ Blogossary
The doors to the blogosphere? dictionary have finally opened. A few things may seem out of place as blogossary gets settled in, and there will, no doubt, be some changes made as time progresses.
To get started, either use the search feature or select a word from the definitions list.
FastBlogIt http://fastblogit.com/ FastBlogIt is a collaborative internet Mind for internet cybernauts. It brings together various trains of thought, subjects, text, pictures & other media self-organized by it's authors & groups using folksonomy tags and other features. Another way of saying it is that FastBlogIt is a hyper-threaded folksonomous wiki-blog
web 2.0
Blogdigger http://www.blogdigger.com/ Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.
Bloggers and Blogging : Series at ITConversations http://www.itconversations.com/series/blogging.html Bloggers and Blogging : Series at ITConversations
You can subscribe to this series of programmes about blogs and blogging as a podcast or just download the mp3 directly
Pew Report on Teenage Blogging / Use of Internet (Nov05) http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Content_Creation.pdf Pew Report on Teenage Blogging +
Teen Content Creators and Consumers ... Internet and American Life
More than half of online teens have created
content for the internet; and most teen
downloaders think that getting free music
files is easy to do.
Bloggers' FAQ - Student Blogging http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-students.php Bloggers' FAQ - Student Blogging
The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students.
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Weblogs are a form of website. The thousands of normal website usability guidelines therefore apply to them, as do this year's top ten design mistakes. But weblogs are also a special genre of website; they have unique characteristics and thus distinct usability problems.
Google BLOG Search http://google.com/blogsearch Google BLOG Search
Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves.
Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well.
Bloggers' FAQ - Intellectual Property http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php Bloggers' FAQ - Intellectual Property
I found something interesting on someone else's blog. May I quote it? | What is fair use? | May I freely copy from federal government documents? | Am I free to copy facts and ideas? | How does a Creative Commons license help? | I'd like to let other people copy from my blog. Can I license it? | If a reader comments on my blog, does she license the rights to me? | Can I "deep link" to someone else's website or blog post? | When can I borrow someone's images for my blog post? | I want to parody someone. Can I use some of their images and text in my parody? | Questions About Trademark |
The Weblog Project (Video Clips about BLOGS) http://www.theweblogproject.com/ The Weblog Project
The first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to support and promote the blogosphere where featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors are the bloggers themselves.
TWP is an open source movie about blogs in which everyone can contribute and produce other versions of this internet movie.
Technorati : BLOG search engine http://www.technorati.com/ Technorati brings you what? happening on the web right now.
Technorati is a real-time BLOG search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere ?the world of weblogs.
Technorati tracks over seven million weblogs
Freedom Blogs awards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4099802.stm Freedom Blogs awards
The best weblogs on the net which have defended freedom of expression have been recognised in the Freedom Blogs awards, voted for by the public.
The seven best blogs out of 60, shortlisted by Reporters Without Borders, represent six locations.
Legal Guide for Bloggers http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ Legal Guide for Bloggers
Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.
BlogStreet http://blogstreet.com/ BlogStreet
An tool that allows you to find information about known blogs' originators, traffic, and "neighborhoods" of related blogs.
A Weblog Webliography : BLOG http://kairosnews.org/blogbib A Weblog Webliography : A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy ... i.e. what are people doing with weblogs
BlogBib http://blog-bib.blogspot.com/ BlogBib : An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...
Articles & Interviews About Blogs | Blogging at Your Library | Blogging Tools | ect Librarian/Library Blogs | Books on Blogging | Studies on Blogging | Presentations on Blogging |
Mobile Podcasting Leads to Mobcasting http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=110 How to Create Your Own Mobile Podcasts and Mobcasts
An essay about the concept of mobcasting -- using mobile phones and blogging tools as a way for large groups of people to create audio podcasts on the same website. Podcasts are a type of audio blog that are set up so listeners can audiomatically download your audio messages onto an MP3 player like an iPod -- hence the name podcasting.
Below are seven easy steps to creating a mobile podcast or mobcast using free online tools. The first five steps will get you started with your own podcasting site. And if you want to create a mobcast site for a group of people to use, steps six and seven will take care of that for you.
The state of blogging http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture.
Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs.
Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is.
Kinja http://kinja.com/ Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.
Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers.
Kinja is not aimed at early adopters. Users wanting to analyze patterns of meme propagation, and other sophisticated data, should try the excellent Technorati.
A Bloggers Code of Ethics http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php A Bloggers' Code of Ethics
Some bloggers recently have been debating what, if any, ethics the Weblog community should follow. Since not all bloggers are journalists and the Weblog form is more casual, they argue they shouldn't be expected to follow the same ethics codes journalists are.
CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers' Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to as well.
Blogging 101 http://www.unc.edu/~zuiker/blogging101/ Welcome to my presentation on blogs and blogging. This is meant to be an overview of the development of weblogs and an introduction to the ways you might use a weblog. I welcome your comments and suggestions - send me a message. Blogs are frequently updated web pages on which authors post short comments about news items, interesting websites, their thoughts and more. Blogs are part of a nanopublishing revolution that allows individuals to express themselves to the world. Blogs are easy to create, easy to maintain and fun to read.