Category Archives: Blogging

Blog Flux, Or Why I Have Joined Web Worker Daily

I suggested to Shelley that the reason her semantic web post didn’t appear on techmeme was because of blog churn (referring to her refactoring of her blogging across various sites) and not because of gender discrimination; she pointed out how I was wrong, and I stand corrected. But I think the concept of blog churn […]

Blogging Past and Future

Shelley Powers is in the midst of refactoring her blogging again. That makes me bold enough to tell you about my own blogging plans. I can’t tell all, not yet, but I can sketch it out at least. And I will start with a little bit of history, because this is my blog, and I […]

Blogger Relations: Person to Person not PR to A-Lister

I’ve been following the TechCrunch/Mother’s Click story with fascinated horror. It seems to encapsulate all that is wrong with blogger relations today. Tara nailed it: “for Mother’s Click…wtf are they thinking? Why even target Mike and TC? Huh? The majority of your audience isn’t even there - you want to go to BlogHer and Dooce […]

How to Engage with the Tech Blogosphere: Ten Tips for PR and AR Personnel

Most big companies know how to deal with the press and with industry analysts… they have entire departments devoted to that. But bloggers are the mystery meat of corporate communications. How do you connect with them? How do you relate to them? How do you sort the riff raff from the ones who have important […]

Creating Ourselves through Dialogue

The power of blogging is not that it allows us to broadcast our voice and ideas to many people, but that it supports human scale interactions, dialogues between and among people that wouldn’t otherwise happen. This is what Jeneane Sessum has called M2Y, me to you, and it’s what ProBlogger Darren Rowse wrote about today […]

Outbound Links = Inbound Ideas

Via Mathew Ingram, I’ve rediscovered Kent Newsome after he somehow escaped my subscriptions list during our move from Maui to Denver at the end of March. Mathew blogs regularly on Saturdays and Sundays and so do I. We occasionally find each other in the quiet halls of the weekend Internet. It’s peaceful, like when you […]

Switching to WordPress from Blogger

My original Anne 2.0 blog was published by Blogger via ftp to my own webhost. I decided to switch to WordPress for these reasons:

The variety of themes offered by WordPress
Its open-source AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) architecture
The array of interesting plugins made available by the WordPress community
The control WordPress gives me over my blog presentation
The fun of playing […]

You Are Now Reading My WordPress Blog

In the next couple of days, I’ll post the steps I followed to move from Blogger to Wordpress, including importing Blogger posts and Haloscan comments. I haven’t yet fixed up all the permalinks, so some links to my blog may be broken.
I chose Fredrik Fahlstad’s fspring theme for now, because the orange continues stylistically with […]

Can’t-Do-Without Blogging Tools

Scott Mark is curious about what offline blog tools people use and mentions w.bloggar and Qumana, neither of which I’m familiar with. However, I’m working every day getting my blogging and development and general computing environment set up for maximum production of hot air, so I’m curious what tools you can’t do without.
Here’s my setup […]

Drive the Boringness Out

When I was a baby, just two or three months old, I cried. I cried and cried and cried ’til my mother wanted to shoot her head off… or maybe mine. She thinks I was bored. Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet, so I couldn’t keep my neurons engaged with that, and I wasn’t […]