Thursday, January 13, 2005

Blogging For Newbies

BLogS ?

A friend asked me a question about "Blogs" which got me thinking, as much as they are a rage and impacted the presidential campaign (or at least the reporting of it), it's time I wrote an article on the subject.first part of the article, stumbling into the blog worldsecond part of the article: how to effectively use blogs (an ongoing process)

The "B" Log (BLOG) Investigationby Joe Viglionejanuary 9, 2005 2:32 PM

This is from the perspective of someone jumping in feet first and figuringit out later.

What the heck is a BLOG or "B" Log? While searching forsome script from

THE MATRIX that I wanted to post on a woman named
Erin's blog:
http://tracie1828.blog-city.com/read/995707.htm

and found the dialogue on this site:
http://www.uppity-negro.com/archives/001338.html
by doing a google search on Persephone and a bit of the dialogue, it came up.
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On abasic level, B-Logs are a great place for me to archive mysongwriting and pull together my various articles, where they arerepublished, and articles reviewing my own work. The first B-Log I wentto was
http://www.blogspot.com and created these two blogs:
http://therealcount.blogspot.com
http://visualradio.blogspot.com

Then I lost my password and e mail address! I figured out it was my homeComcast account http://by10fd.bay10.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=444f691e7d825f1da1676e6b1a8182d1&mailto=1&to=writer2005@comcast.net&msg=MSG1105301119.8&start=1299549&len=9767&src=&type=x Once you remember your e mailthey will send you a new passcode, but even though I foundTheRealCount it was impossible for me to find VisualRadio.blogspot.comguess what?It was a blog within a blog! Blogspot allows you to create multipleblogs inside the same account! So now I have about ten blogs:---songwriting---varulven retail catalog---my AMG biographiesetc. etc. etc. all within the same "B" Logthat makes archiving and organizing very simple.on http://therealcount.blogspot.com - along with my songwriting -

I have a little Blog directory of my own:


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Hi Everyone - and welcome to The Real Count Directory of Blogs
Joe Viglione's writings:
http://joevigfirstimpressions.blogspot.com
http://therealcount.blogspot.com
is The Real Count - it is part of

http://visualradio.blogspot.com
but Visual Radio also has its own blog:

http://vrtv.blogspot.comwhere you can read about our guests

http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com buzzylinhart@sbcglobal.net

http://bobbyhebb.blogspot.com hebb_project@yahoo.com

http://joetortelli.blogspot.com joeyrome@yahoo.com

http://mattoconnor.blogspot.com mattoconnor7@yahoo.com

http://jeffland1.blogspot.com jefflandpr@yahoo.com


and our political ramblings!
http://nudgereport.blogspot.com/ NudgeTheDrudge zeusipuss@yahoo.com

http://cowieharr.blogspot.com TheMadFaxer@hotmail.com

http://impeachgeorgew.blogspot.com/ visualjoe2002@yahoo.com


Now the "Nudge Report" was interesting because there was another Nudgereport that kept coming up. I was making sport of Matt Drudge, of course,but "Nudge" is a Jewish word it seems and there was a Jewish politicalactivism site. My Nudge seems to have bumped it out...oops...I waswilling to change my name but Blogspot seems to have given me the greenlight - oh well...


Kimberley Jaeger's "Common Ground" information needed to have a site so Icreated http://kimberleyinterviews.blogspot.comEric Linter, the Astrologer, needed a site, so in about 60 seconds or 120seconds I zapped up http://ericlinter.blogspot.comamazing.Now be careful what you post. One friend wrote on his blog how he, ofcourse, is "straight" but that he has gay friends like Count Joe. Great.I would like to out myself when ready, thank you. Google grabs the pagesand has them "cached", so even though he took that "some of my bestfriends are gay" post down, it is STILL up on Google.OK, so I'm openly gay, but I cringe when looking through Google for myreviews and interviews and find something totally irrelevant about myprivate life forced upon me because someone was rambling stupidly on theirBlog. The guilty party actually crashed at our house last night, yep, thestraight guy slept in a room in between two gay guys, and he wasinstructed how to remove the CACHED stuff from Google. It is good to knowthat these things stick on the web like glue.keep in mind there are tons of BLOG companies which pop up on my Alexatoolbar http://www.alexa.com is now part of Amazon.com - they got theirclaim to fame when they had the Ken Starr report ready for people to readwhen it was released. My Alexa Toolbar shows other areas to go to on theweb - and when I'm in Blogspot.com other Blog companies pop up like this:Blog-city.comBlogstudiocamblogbloghornblogeasyBlog DepotBlogged upblogHarborhttp://www.antville.org/Interblogdiarylandcafelog.comxanga(Jo Jo's son Bozzie uses Xanga WEBSITE: www.xanga.com/bostonkaneo )BlogmeBlogger.comFree-ConversantDigital ExpressionshatelifeOpendiarynotifylistblurty journalsDear DiaryRememory.comMy Dear DiaryDiarylandit's ridiculous, isn't it? YIKES.So I created two with Blog-City.comhttp://thecount.blog-city.com/http://saltwatersummers.blog-city.com/You can learn a lot about them by reading the Mission Statements of eachcompany. Blog-City.com is supposed to be "easier". It isn't. But it iseffective - my Blog-City sites like "The Count" showed up immediately in asearch engine. Amazing. Maybe it was pure luck or maybe they arepositioned on the web to move up the ranks?WHAT IS A BLOG:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&oi=defmore&q=define:Blog+--+(weB+LOG)My search on Google says: define BLOG and lots of stuff comes up, amongthem:Definitions of Blog -- (weB LOG) on the Web:A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activityof updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a"blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allowspeople with little or no technical background to update and maintain theblog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological orderwith the most recent additions featured most prominantly.www.matisse.net/files/glossary.htmlFrom "Web log." A blog is basically a journal that is available on theweb. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps ablog is a "blogger." See also: WWWwww.mitsol.co.za/help_glossary.htmOK - what are the best blogs out there that I've seen so far?Danny Goldberghttp://www.dannygoldberg.com/He's the record executive, of course, with Artemis (Peter Wolf, CindyBullens, etc.)Check out MusicOfAmerica Blog which I found looking for Danny Goldberg'shttp://www.musicforamerica.org/blogTim Riley of NPR, the Beatles author, is great:http://www.artsjournal.com/riley/very effective. Tim returned to Visual Radio a couple of weeks ago, he'sbeen on the show twice.So this is the first draft of a real look at BLOGS. As I work them morestuff will be revealed. For me, they represent a big upgrade over myexpages:

http://www.expage.com/visualradio

http://www.expage.com/jvbiographies

http://www.expage.com/summerwindsoundtrack

http://www.expage.com/joeviglione

http://www.expage.com/varulvenmagazine

Band on Boston RR #20

http://www.expage.com/varmints

Eli Stover
http://www.expage.com/elibio

Eli linked a stack of Expage material together; but B-Logs make thatobsolete.

Expage - something Morgan Huke showed me which he seems to haveremoved:

www.expage.com/mofoinfo

http://www.geocities.com/morganhuke/ seems to be more efficient for him.

Morgan did create this:
http://www.expage.com/livingblueschart1200

Not mine, but pretty cool on the Werewolf

http://www.expage.com/varulven

Expage is obsolete! It is stingy with the webspace, not as easy to loginto, and will disappear on you if you don't keep logging back in.So that's part 1 on my story!

At least the BLOGS gives me the option of "Blogs Within Blogs"

http://jvmiscellaneous.blogspot.com is where this page is located!

http://radioessays.blogspot.com

http://jvlinernotes.blogspot.com

http://jvbiographies.blogspot.com

http://jvreviews.blogspot.com

http://coversandlovers

http://jvlaunch.blogspot.com

http://varulvenrecord.blogspot.com

http://joevigtop40.blogspot.com
The Joe Viglione Song Catalog

http://Varulven.blogspot.com

http://countradio.blogspot.com




Keep on blogging

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http://varulvenrecords.blogspot.com/

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Safety Of Pets

The Safest Place For Pets is Home Sweet Home
By Joe Viglione

President Bill Clinton's dog "Buddy", a chocolate Labrador, was a three month old pup in December of 1997, was named after Clinton's great-uncle Henry Oren "Buddy" Grisham, who had passed away six months prior to the dog's arrival at the White House. Early January 2002 "Buddy" was killed by a 17 year old driver on the busy two lane street outside of the Clinton's cul-de-sac Old House Lane in Chappaqua, New York. Six months later The Clinton's brought home the great nephew of their beloved dog, a puppy born about a month after Buddy's passing, and named him Seamus (pronounced Shay-mus). Born at the same time as Seamus was a cloned cat in Texas named CC (for Copy Cat). The ability to "resurrect" your pet is impractical, the wild dreams of the 81-year-old financier,John Sperling, who is behind "cat cloning", making the fantasy from Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Sixth Day" movie a reality. "Copying" a pet is a perfect solution for careless owners who aren't concerned about their companion's well being in this world of Feline Leukemia, teenagers speeding in cars while on cell phones, or natural predators like hawks and alligators. The modern world is fraught with danger for our four-legged friends making home sweet home a heavenly concept for owners who want to give their pets the best chance at longevity. The horror a friend or colleague feels when they run over someone's pet is compounded by the fact that events like that wouldn't happen if people kept their pets inside a loving home. Cats and dogs can also bring diseases into the household when their natural predatory instincts have them going after moving - living - objects that are better off left in the wild. There's an excellent webpage http://www.abcbirds.org/cats/ titled "Cats Indoors! The Campaign for Safer Birds and Cats" which explains how cats were "domesticated in Egypt around 2,000 BC... (and) were introduced to North America when European settlers arrived. In the 1960s this writer recalls the next-door neighbor distraught that he had just killed "Richie", their cat. The memory of how it shook up the twenty-something fellow next door remains to this day - his words "I killed Richie." "The Campaign For Safer Birds and Cats" also states how "Domestic cat predation on wildlife is a serious conservation issue, particularly in California, Florida and Hawaii." Another site is the "Keep Your Cat Indoors" webpage hosted by the Champagne County Humane Society of Illinois. http://www.cuhumane.org/topics/indoor.html It states that "Although cats are smart, alert, and adroit, they are no match for the many perils that await them outside. That's why the average outdoor cat lives only a third as long than the cat who's kept safely inside." The page goes on to list dangers such as poisoning, the threat posed by other animals, becoming lost or trapped, diseases, people and - the big killer -cars. Yet another web page, http://teched.vt.edu/TE/StudentWebSites/SPCA/Cats.htm , provides "Pet Care Tips" noting: "The average lifespan of an outdoor cat is only 2-3 years. Wouldn't you like your pet to be around longer than that? An indoor cat's average life span is 12 to 15 years or more." The site also reminds us that because mankind decided to domesticate felines "Cats are no longer wild animals that fit into an ecosystem, but are dependent on us, receiving the things they need to live from us." At one time we had seven wonderful strays making the transition from living in the cold cruel world outside to finding a warm and loving home where they have each other as well as us, the humans who take care of them. Country Club Merchant Magazine publisher Ava Cannie actually drove Zsa Zsa and Duffy all the way from New Jersey to Boston after the two littermates were found under a house in New Jersey. Zsa Zsa lived to eleven, having developed a thyroid problem. She was a rambunctious little ball of energy who loved scampering on the lawn only under the supervision of her daddy. And as smart as she was, she would have been no match for a car. The thyroid problem eventually led to complications and her passing left a void, but we cherish the eleven years she spent with us, years we might not have had if she were allowed to zip in and out of the house and face the constant dangers presented by the outside world. At least two of our cats were killed by cars in the mid-1980s which made this writer determined to keep these precious little personalities inside the safety of home sweet home.

http://www.countryclubmerchantmagazine.com

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