The art and craft of the personal blog ā and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
The comment volume on our blogs is waaaay down this week. And half the office are about to go on holiday. And that got me thinking: Do blogs now have a silly season? In the early days, us obsessives would keep the reader and comment levels high right through the
Blogging
Iāve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Timesā blogs and their traffic figures [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/
advertising
Another sign that blogging is in the mainstream now: [via [The Bloggerās Blog](http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=726082)]
Blogging
In many ways, I think Shaneās [following post](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/blog/2008/07/23/suddenly_everybodys_buying_blogs) hits the nail more accurately on the head:> This seems to be a change in direction for a blogosphere. Instead of bloggers trying to reach
Blogging
A word cloud based on my recent blog posts, generated by [Wordle](http://wordle.net/). Iām going to start using this tool to see how closely what our bloggers are posting about tallies with what they think theyāre posting about.[via [Noodlepie](http://www.noodlepie.com/2008/07/
Blogging
Paid Contentās interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart [http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-video-interview-olivier-creiche-vp-six-apart-selling-to-sup-and-the-end/] . Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):
Blogging
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/2547939737/ "photo sharing")Frustration in Moleskine [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/2547939737/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/adders/].
Blogging
It appears that today, Iām mainly working as support for the Computer Weekly Blog Awards [http://broadstuff.com/archives/997-This-is-a-bit-embarrassing,-but.....html]ā¦
Blogging
Calling all blogging journalists ā Paul from the Online Journalism Blog is doing some research into [how blogging has changed the way journalists work](http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/how-has-blogging-changed-your-journalism/) for a book heās writing.You can take the [short survey online](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?
akismet
Darren of Problogger finally articulates something that has been bothering me for a while: [Aksimet](http://akismet.com), Automatticās comment spam filtering system, seems to be [throwing up a lot of false positives](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/05/27/my-love-hate-relationship-with-akismet/) of late.Iāve been using Akismet
Blogging
Weāre doing lots of work on video at RBI in the moment, much of itĀ shepherdedĀ by Andrew [http://engagement101.blogspot.com]. One recurring theme we here is how we need to do really high quality stuff ā and usually they mean technical quality rather than content quality. Our highest
Blogging
In the category of things I really ought to have blogged about before now: [Computer Weekly](http://www.computerweekly.com) is running its first ever [IT blog awards](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogawards.htm). The team are looking for the best of the technology blogs,Ā particularlyĀ those with a UK
