Blogging 101
Northern Voice
Vancouver, British Columbia
February 22, 2008
Richard Eriksson
http://justagwailo.com/

What?

Reverse-chronological

Conversational

Permalinks

Comments

RSS

Tags!

“Links are first-class
citizens in web pages.”
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-amaya-970220.html

Where?

Blogger

TypePad

WordPress

LiveJournal

Buy a domain

Why?

Exposure

Expression!

“They don’t expect
privacy. They value
openness.”
—CSI Archie Johnson

Public record

Conversation!

Types of blogging

Eventblogging

Liveblogging
http://miss604.com/

Microblogging

Sketchblogging

DSblogging
http://sachachua.com/

Tumblogging
“quick and dirty stream of conciousness”
http://www.kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

Podcasting

Videoblogging

The Future!

OpenID
http://openid.net/

Prospective search

Just write.