Weblog Award Competition at Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle ("the German Wave") has a November 14, 2004 article entitled What the US Could Learn About Blogging in talking about its own Best of the Blogs awards ("the BOBs") to be awarded in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
For those interested in this competition, see
nominees.
Monday, November 15, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Yahoo! Search blog: News Search and RSS
The Yahoo! Search blog has announced "the public launch of RSS on Yahoo! News Search" and in that same posting has some tricks for advanced searches.
See also SearchEngineWatch.
See also SearchEngineWatch.
Monday, October 18, 2004
Common Craft - A Blog for Online Community Strategies
Common Craft - A Blog for Online Community Strategies
Common Craft - Online Community Strategies is a blog devoted to "Online Community Strategies", including blogging.
Recent postings include a comparison of blogs and message boards with a well-designed color chart of comparison.
Common Craft - Online Community Strategies is a blog devoted to "Online Community Strategies", including blogging.
Recent postings include a comparison of blogs and message boards with a well-designed color chart of comparison.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Periodic Table of Blogs
Periodic Table of Blogs
The SaltwaterPizza Blog has a posting on unusual periodic tables which is fun.
There is even a Periodic Table of Blogs, which is interesting, even though not true to the actual periodic table of elements.
They missed
the Kaulins Revised Periodic Table of Elements
and many other periodic table variants at Periodic Tables.
The SaltwaterPizza Blog has a posting on unusual periodic tables which is fun.
There is even a Periodic Table of Blogs, which is interesting, even though not true to the actual periodic table of elements.
They missed
the Kaulins Revised Periodic Table of Elements
and many other periodic table variants at Periodic Tables.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Bloggers at Political Party Conventions
Bloggers at Political Party Conventions
Under the title Bloggers go mainstream at US conventions, BBC reports on the newsworthiness of political party conventions and devotes a lot of copy to the emergence of blogging.
35 Bloggers were accredited for the Democratic Party convention in Boston including Karl-Thomas Musselman, a 19-year delegate from Texas, who not only used his blog Musselman for America to run for the office but also blogs directly from the convention.
Punditmania predicts that the day will come - not very far off - that even most members of Congress will have to have blogs in order to stay in touch with their constituents. Or they will have to answer the question: "why do you NOT have a blog?".
Under the title Bloggers go mainstream at US conventions, BBC reports on the newsworthiness of political party conventions and devotes a lot of copy to the emergence of blogging.
35 Bloggers were accredited for the Democratic Party convention in Boston including Karl-Thomas Musselman, a 19-year delegate from Texas, who not only used his blog Musselman for America to run for the office but also blogs directly from the convention.
Punditmania predicts that the day will come - not very far off - that even most members of Congress will have to have blogs in order to stay in touch with their constituents. Or they will have to answer the question: "why do you NOT have a blog?".
Saturday, July 17, 2004
WordPress Encoder Widget
WordPress Encoder Widget
Encode HTML Entities with the WordPress Encoder Widget.
For example, if in HTML code you write the following command
<span ><b>WordPress Encoder Widget</b></span>
the result on the website page is as follows
WordPress Encoder Widget
If you want to show the actual text code of the command rather than the result of the command, then you have to use the following code
<span style="color:#ff6600;"><b>WordPress Encoder Widget</b></span>
The WordPress Encoder Widget converts the code for the programmer automatically.
Encode HTML Entities with the WordPress Encoder Widget.
For example, if in HTML code you write the following command
<span ><b>WordPress Encoder Widget</b></span>
the result on the website page is as follows
WordPress Encoder Widget
If you want to show the actual text code of the command rather than the result of the command, then you have to use the following code
<span style="color:#ff6600;"><b>WordPress Encoder Widget</b></span>
The WordPress Encoder Widget converts the code for the programmer automatically.
New Blogger Post Editing Features
New Blogger Post Editing Features
The July, 2004 Newsletter "Blogger Buzz" from Blogger announces implementation of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) post editor which now allows selection of:
fonts, text sizes, bold face, italic, text colors, easy hyperlink, align left, center, right, justify text, ordered lists, unordered lists, blockquotes, and undo.
Blogger thus now has a special "compose page" in addition to an "html-editing page" in addition to a "Preview" and "Hide Preview" page..
One problem with the new features is that Blogger now changes html edited text automatically to its own specifications, which is supremely annoying to anyone used to writing html-code in a particular unique manner.
For example,
a line coded by hand as
<font color=#ff6600"><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></font>
is changed automatically to
<span ><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></span>
This is fine until such a page must be edited in any way, in which case the html coder is forced to learn and adopt the Google html coding system, with which he is now faced. This kind of coding tyrrany is totally unnecessary.
The July, 2004 Newsletter "Blogger Buzz" from Blogger announces implementation of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) post editor which now allows selection of:
fonts, text sizes, bold face, italic, text colors, easy hyperlink, align left, center, right, justify text, ordered lists, unordered lists, blockquotes, and undo.
Blogger thus now has a special "compose page" in addition to an "html-editing page" in addition to a "Preview" and "Hide Preview" page..
One problem with the new features is that Blogger now changes html edited text automatically to its own specifications, which is supremely annoying to anyone used to writing html-code in a particular unique manner.
For example,
a line coded by hand as
<font color=#ff6600"><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></font>
is changed automatically to
<span ><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></span>
This is fine until such a page must be edited in any way, in which case the html coder is forced to learn and adopt the Google html coding system, with which he is now faced. This kind of coding tyrrany is totally unnecessary.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Blogs in Education
Blogs in Education
Punditmania has found an excellent article on Blogging by Bobby Hobgood, LEARN NC's Teacher Education Specialist. It is found under the rubric "Teacher time savers: Web-based productivity tools". The article is well worth a read for its basic premise that "Blogs are great tools for use in education".
Punditmania has found an excellent article on Blogging by Bobby Hobgood, LEARN NC's Teacher Education Specialist. It is found under the rubric "Teacher time savers: Web-based productivity tools". The article is well worth a read for its basic premise that "Blogs are great tools for use in education".
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Blogstreet Services
Blogstreet Services
I sent an inquiry to Blogstreet about their services and notices concerning inactive accounts, particularly since the site has recently been revamped. Here is their reply of July 3, 2004:
We do send notifications about inactive accounts after 30 days. However, we definitely appreciate your interest in the site.
RSS.Blogstreet aggregates RSS feeds and sends updates in the form of mails in your INBOX. Further, it not only provides you facilities to look at other popular RSS feeds on our service but also lets you subscribe to subscriptions of other users (provided they are public).
Other features include posting interesting updates to your Weblog, exploring blog neighbourhood of other bloggers etc. We hereby take this opportunity to invite you to use our service to the fullest.
I sent an inquiry to Blogstreet about their services and notices concerning inactive accounts, particularly since the site has recently been revamped. Here is their reply of July 3, 2004:
We do send notifications about inactive accounts after 30 days. However, we definitely appreciate your interest in the site.
RSS.Blogstreet aggregates RSS feeds and sends updates in the form of mails in your INBOX. Further, it not only provides you facilities to look at other popular RSS feeds on our service but also lets you subscribe to subscriptions of other users (provided they are public).
Other features include posting interesting updates to your Weblog, exploring blog neighbourhood of other bloggers etc. We hereby take this opportunity to invite you to use our service to the fullest.
Monday, June 28, 2004
BlogOn 2004 July 23 Berkeley California
BlogOn 2004 July 23 Berkeley California
This just in from Becky Sniffen....
"A new blogging & social media conference called BlogOn 2004 ... takes place July 23 in Berkeley, CA. BlogOn explores the business end of blogging, seeking to marry the inventiveness of blogging companies to the investors and tech leaders who will support the humble blog’s rise to the top of the corporate communications ladder. Prominent technology conference host Chris Shipley, along with speakers from the best-known blogging companies, will illuminate the business stories behind social media: the business models that will succeed and fail, the impact of the blogging phenomenon on tech and business culture, the ways in which new social media technologies will drive the next-generation Web, and how corporations can best use this rising technological toolset to achieve their goals."
This just in from Becky Sniffen....
"A new blogging & social media conference called BlogOn 2004 ... takes place July 23 in Berkeley, CA. BlogOn explores the business end of blogging, seeking to marry the inventiveness of blogging companies to the investors and tech leaders who will support the humble blog’s rise to the top of the corporate communications ladder. Prominent technology conference host Chris Shipley, along with speakers from the best-known blogging companies, will illuminate the business stories behind social media: the business models that will succeed and fail, the impact of the blogging phenomenon on tech and business culture, the ways in which new social media technologies will drive the next-generation Web, and how corporations can best use this rising technological toolset to achieve their goals."
Friday, June 11, 2004
Spam accounts for 2/3 of all mail
Spam accounts for 2/3 of all mail
The recent issue (7, 2004) of the German language PC Magazin reports that Brightmail, the spam filter specialist, filtered 96 billion e-mails for its customers, of which 64% were spam, up from 50% in July 2003, and 60% in January 2004.
The Brightmail website reports for May, 2004 that it hit the 100 billion mark for filtered e-mails, of which 64% were spam. 3.3 billion e-mails were fraudulent.
The recent issue (7, 2004) of the German language PC Magazin reports that Brightmail, the spam filter specialist, filtered 96 billion e-mails for its customers, of which 64% were spam, up from 50% in July 2003, and 60% in January 2004.
The Brightmail website reports for May, 2004 that it hit the 100 billion mark for filtered e-mails, of which 64% were spam. 3.3 billion e-mails were fraudulent.
Internet Alive and Kicking - 63 million internet registrations
Internet Alive and Kicking - 63 million internet registrations
The Asia Pacific Media Network carries a June 9, 2004 article from the South China Morning Post reporting that worldwide internet address registrations had surged to 63 million in the first quarter of the year 2004, up 4.7 million from the previous quarter - a record increase.
The Internet is alive and kicking.
The Asia Pacific Media Network carries a June 9, 2004 article from the South China Morning Post reporting that worldwide internet address registrations had surged to 63 million in the first quarter of the year 2004, up 4.7 million from the previous quarter - a record increase.
The Internet is alive and kicking.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Catherine Seipp on Bloggers on National Review Online
Catherine Seipp on Bloggers on National Review Online
At the National Review Online, at her "From the Left Coast" column, Catherine Seipp, who also has a blog at Cathy's World, has an intersting article on politics, color and blogging.
OK, so why was I not invited?
Read the article to understand my question.
At the National Review Online, at her "From the Left Coast" column, Catherine Seipp, who also has a blog at Cathy's World, has an intersting article on politics, color and blogging.
OK, so why was I not invited?
Read the article to understand my question.
RSS at the New York Times
RSS at the New York Times
Here is a NY Times article by John R. Quain of June 3, 2004 handling RSS feeds. The article is by no means complete but has some useful information about "fine-tuning your filter for online information".
Here is a NY Times article by John R. Quain of June 3, 2004 handling RSS feeds. The article is by no means complete but has some useful information about "fine-tuning your filter for online information".
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Online Journalism - Learn the Lessons of Blogs
Online Journalism - Learn the Lessons of Blogs
Dan Froomkin is posting a series of articles on how to improve online journalism.
His first article includes discussion of Learn the lessons of blogs.
This is definitely worth a read for all bloggers and non-blogging journalists as also for those running media outfits and information and content services.
Dan Froomkin is posting a series of articles on how to improve online journalism.
His first article includes discussion of Learn the lessons of blogs.
This is definitely worth a read for all bloggers and non-blogging journalists as also for those running media outfits and information and content services.
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