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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