Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging in the Mainstream: Blogger gets the Girl Paid Members Public
Another sign that blogging is in the mainstream now: [via [The Blogger’s Blog](http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=726082)]
What is the role of MSM blogs? Paid Members Public
In many ways, I think Shane’s [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
Seeing What You're Writing About Paid Members Public
A word cloud based on my recent blog posts, generated by [Wordle](http://wordle.net/). I’m going to start using this tool to see how closely what our bloggers are posting about tallies with what they think they’re posting about.[via [Noodlepie](http://www.noodlepie.com/2008/07/
Blogs Becoming Social Networks, Says Six Apart (Europe) Paid Members Public
Paid Content’s 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):
Frustration in Moleskine Paid Members Public
[](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/].
In Which I Become A Helpdesk Paid Members Public
It appears that today, I’m mainly working as support for the Computer Weekly Blog Awards [http://broadstuff.com/archives/997-This-is-a-bit-embarrassing,-but.....html]…
Has Blogging Changed Your Journalism Paid Members Public
Calling all blogging journalists – 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 he’s writing.You can take the [short survey online](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?
Aksimet: Too Enthusiastic in Spamming Comments? Paid Members Public
Darren of Problogger finally articulates something that has been bothering me for a while: [Aksimet](http://akismet.com), Automattic’s 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.I’ve been using Akismet