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Web, New Media, Business, BlogsOctober 29, 2006 11:38 am

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Ten tips to a killer blog

Robert Scoble

Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble

 

 

  1. Blog cause you want to
  2. Read other blogs
  1. Pick out writing styles that you like
  2. Are you compelled to become part of the conversation?  If not, blogging really isn’t for you
  • Pick a niche you can own (be dfferent)
    1. People who write about a specific niche seems to gather an audience faster.  Generalists have a harder time.
  • Link to other blogs
    1. Begin a conversation
    2. Talk about them
    3. Comment on their blog with a relevant comment
  • Admit mistakes
    1. Gains credibility
    2. People keep piling on if you don’t
  • Write Good Headlines
    1. Good headlines get noticed by people in a hurry (who read feeds as a “river of news”.
  • Use other media
    1. Techcrunch uses a graphic in every post
    2. Video
    3. Podcast
  • Have a voice
  • Get outside the blogosphere
    1. Go to conferences
    2. Meet ups
    3. Geek dinners
    4. Create those personal relationships
  • Market yourself
    1. Put url on your business card, email
    2. Stand out
  • Write well
  • Expose yourself
    1. Not Chris Pirillo style
    2. People want authenticity and exposing yourself a little lets people know you are a human being.
    3. Tell interesting personal tidbits that show your uniqueness
  • Help other people blog
    1. Bring new voices into the blogosphere, making our world more interesting
  • Engage with commenters
    1. Respond
    2. Respond quickly
  • Keep your integrity
    1. Disclose sponsorships or paid interests
    2. Let people know who you are

     

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    A friend of mine who works in PR in San Francisco came up to me at a party last week, and was wide-eyed at what’s been going on lately at the virtual world Second Life.

    “Now that Reuters has a correspondent actually reporting on stories from Second Life regularly, is this now becoming a real world?” she wondered. “How can you tell the difference anymore?”

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    ONLINE RESOURCES

    Adapt or Die
    http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4111
    AJR, June/July 2006

    A Brief History of the Internet
    http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
    The Internet Society.

    Center for History & New Media
    http://chnm.gmu.edu/

    ClickZ Internet Statistics and Demographics
    http://www.clickz.com/stats/

    CyberJournalist.net (Jonathan Dube)
    (and CyberJournalist.net J-Blog list)
    http://www.cyberjournalist.net/

    The Day of an American Journalist in 2889
    http://eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DayAmer.shtml
    Jules Verne’s 1890 short story. (East of the Web)

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation
    http://www.eff.org/

    Elements for Digital Storytelling
    http://www.inms.umn.edu/Elements/
    Nora Paul and Christina Fiebich,
    Institute for New Media Studies, 2005.

    Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media
    (University of Denver)
    http://estlowcenter.du.edu/

    History of Computing Project
    http://www.thocp.net/

    Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
    http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

    Imagining the Internet - Predictions Database
    Elon University/Pew Internet
    and American Life Project.

    Information Science in the 20th Century
    http://libsci.sc.edu/bob/istchron/ISCNET/ISC20CEN.HTM
    Robert V. Williams, University of South Carolina.

    Institute for New Media Studies
    http://www.inms.umn.edu/

    Internet Archive
    http://www.archive.org/

    The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected (FCC)
    http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/internet/

    Interactive Narratives
    http://www.interactivenarratives.org/
    Andrew DeVigal.

    International Symposium on Online Journalism
    University of Texas at Austin.

    J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
    http://www.j-lab.org/
    University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

    Legal Guide for Bloggers (EFF)
    http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

    Lost Remote
    http://www.lostremote.com/

    Mass Media Web Design Historical Screenshots
    http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/
    design/designhist/wdmm.hist1.html
    Web Design for Mass Media, by Bill Kovarik, 2002.

    Media Bloggers Assocation
    http://www.mediabloggers.org/

    National Digital Information Infrastructure
    and Preservation Program
    (Library of Congress)
    http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

    NAA: Digital Edge
    http://www.digitaledge.org/

    NAA: Electronic Publishing
    http://www.naa.org/Electronic-Publishing.aspx

    Nerds 2.0.1 Internet Timeline
    http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/

    Newsplex
    http://www.newsplex.org/

    Nielsen/NetRatings
    http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/

    Online Journalism Review
    http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php

    Online News Association
    http://www.onlinenewsassociation.org/

    Online Publishers Association
    (and Internet Activity Index)
    http://www.online-publishers.org/

    The Online Timeline
    http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/timeline.shtml
    David Carlson, University of Florida.

    Pew Internet and American Life Project
    (and lastest trends findings)
    http://www.pewinternet.org/

    Podcasting Legal Guide
    http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

    Poynter Online’s “The Chaser”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=56

    Poynter Online’s “E-Media Tidbits”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31

    Poynter Online’s Eyetrack III (2004)
    http://poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/

    Poynter Online’s New Media Timeline
    http://poynter.org/nmt

    Poynter Online’s “News University
    http://www.newsu.org/

    Poynter Online’s Online Resources
    http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=26

    Poynter Online’s Search Engine
    (Example: Type in the word “Convergence“)
    http://poynteronline.org/search/

    Poynter Online’s
    Stanford-Poynter EyeTrac Project
    (2000)
    http://www.poynterextra.org/et/i.htm

    Poynter Online’s “Tip Sheets”
    http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31898

    Poynter Online’s “Web Tips”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32

    PressThink
    http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
    Jay Rosen

    Search Engine Watch
    http://searchenginewatch.com/

    Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

    Twenty Year Usenet Timeline
    http://google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
    Google, December 2001.

    USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future
    http://www.digitalcenter.org/

    Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
    http://www.useit.com/

    Web Credibility Project
    (Stanford University)
    http://www.webcredibility.org/

    WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 World-Wide Web
    http://vlib.iue.it/history/internet/

     


    BOOKS

     

    BOOKS
    1993-2006

    Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet.
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    Albarran, Alan B. and David H. Goff, eds.
    Understanding the Web.
    Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

    Anderson, Janna Quitney. Imagining the Internet:
    Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives
    .
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

    Battelle, John. The Search: How Google and its Rivals
    Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture
    .
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    Berkman, Robert I. and Christopher A. Shumway.
    Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals.
    Ames: Iowa State Press, 2003.

    Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web.
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    Boczkowski, Pablo J. Digitizing the News:
    Innovation in Online Newspapers
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    Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

    Borden, Diane L., and Kerric Harvey, eds.
    The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation,
    and Reporting in the New Online Environment.

    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

    Brooks, Brian S. Journalism in the Information Age:
    A Guide to Computers for Reporters and Editors.

    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

    Burke, Colin B. Information and Secrecy:
    Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex.

    Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

    Callahan, Christopher. A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet.
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

    Campbell-Kelly, Martin and William Aspray.
    Computer: A History of the Information Machine.
    New York: BasicBooks, 1996.

    Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing.
    Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

    Craig, Richard. Online Journalism:
    Reporting, Writing and Editing for New Media
    .
    Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.

    De Wolk, Roland. Introduction to Online Journalism.
    Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

    Dizard, Jr. Wilson. Old Media / New Media:
    Mass Communication in the Information Age.

    New York: Longman, 2000.

    Fidler, Roger. Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media.
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997.

    Foust, James C. Online Journalism:
    Principles and Practices of News for the Web
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    Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway, 2005.

    Garcia, Mario R. Redesigning Print for the Web.
    Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Books, 1997.

    Garrison, Bruce. Computer-Assisted Reporting. 2nd ed.
    Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

    Gillies, James and Robert Cailliau. How the Web was Born.
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    Gillmor, Dan. We the Media:
    Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
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    Goldstein, Norm.
    The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting
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    New York: Perseus Books Group, 2002.

    Graziplene, Leonard R. Teletext: Its Promise and Demise.
    Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University Press, 2000.

    Gunter, Barrie. News and the Net.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

    Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon.
    Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

    Hall, Jim. Online Journalism: A Critical Primer.
    Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001.

    Hane, Paula J. Super Searchers in the News.
    Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2000.

    Hansen, Kathleen A. and Nora Paul.
    Behind the Message:
    Information Strategies for Communicators
    .
    Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004.

    Harper, Christopher. And That’s the Way It Will Be:
    News and Information in a Digital World.

    New York: New York University Press, 1997.

    Hiltzik, Michael A. Dealers of Lighting:
    Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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    New York: Harper Business, 1999.

    Jones, Steve. Encyclopedia of New Media.
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.

    Kaye, Barbara K. and Norman J. Medoff.
    The World Wide Web: A Mass Communication Perspective.
    Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999.

    Kawamoto, Kevin. Digital Journalism:
    Emerging Media and Changing Horizons of Journalism
    .
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

    —-. Media and Society in the Digital Age.
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

    Kolodzy, Janet. Convergence Journalism:
    Writing and Reporting Across the News Media
    .
    Llanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

    Lubar, Steven. InfoCulture: the Smithsonian Book
    of the Inventions of the Information Age.

    Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

    McAdams, Mindy. Flash Journalism:
    How to Create Multimedia News Packages
    .
    Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2005.

    McGuire, Mary and Linda Stilborne, Melinda McAdams, Laurel Hyatt.
    The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists.
    New York: The Guilford Press, 2002.

    Martin, Shannon E. and Kathleen A. Hansen.
    Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link.
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

    Moschovitis, Christos J.P. History of the Internet.
    Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.

    Naughton, John. A Brief History of the Future.
    Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000.

    Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital.
    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

    Nielsen, Jakob and Marie Tahir.
    Jakob Nielsen’s 50 Web Sites.
    Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing, 2001.

    Pavlik, John V. Journalism and New Media.
    New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

    Randall, Neil. The Soul of The Internet.
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    Reddick, Randy and Elliot King. The Online Journalist. 3rd ed.
    Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 2000.

    Rich, Carole. Creating Online Media:
    A Guide to Research, Writing, and Design on the Internet.

    New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

    Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts,
    and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
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    Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006.

    Salus, Peter H. Casting the Net:
    From ARPANET to Internet & Beyond.

    Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

    Salwen, Michael Brain,  Bruce Garrison, and Paul D. Driscoll.
    Online News and the Public.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

    Seib, Philip. Going Live:
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    Stovall, James Glen. Web Journalism.
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    Ward, Mike. Journalism Online.
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    Wendland, Mike. Wired Journalist:
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    3rd ed.
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    Weinberger, David. Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
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    . 2nd ed.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

    Xigen, Li. Internet Newspapers: Making a Mainstream Medium.
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    Before 1993

    Alber, Antone F. Videotex / Teletext.
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    Aspray, William, ed. Computing Before Computers.
    Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.

    Aumente, Jerome. New Electronic Pathways:
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    Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987.

    Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires.
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    Frieberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley:
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    Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New:
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    in the Late Nineteenth Century.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

    Nyce, James, M., and Paul Kahn, eds.
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    Postman, Neil. Technopoly:
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    Provenzo, Eugene F. Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy.
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    From the Drum to the Satellite.

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    Wells, Herbert George. World Brain.
    London: Methuen, 1938.

         
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