I came across this site whilst responding to someone visiting my site today.
If I can, I do like to thank those who have taken the time and trouble to visit my blog, it just seems right.
I know of course, that as my vast internet empire expands, I will employ thousands of minions to do that for me. Now, while it is still small enough to be totally hands on, it is a privilege and a pleasure to acknowledge the effort and interest of my fellow blogrine.
Anyway.. This site ..
What struck me about this site was not the mutual backslapping to gain visitors, or the sites dazzling array of useful tips or spells which would magically open the hidden dwarf doors of Blogmoria, it was the naive honesty of the writer to reveal all of their current, if meagre earnings from their net endeavours, and to express it with an air of optimistic, infectious enthusiasm as regarding the future of their blogging ambitions, which I found to be both inspiring and strikingly familiar.
So.. thanks Forest. :-D
At Last I'm Free
Friday, 9 November 2007
At Last I'm Free
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Socialstream
Socialstream
If you read my previous article on how I use Netvibes to bring all of my profiles under a Unified Home Page, well this is an article on a similar theme called Socialstream which is a Google-sponsored project Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute where they are looking also towards Social Networking Unification.
(Maybe I could get a grant!! LOL)
(Taken from the Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute's website)
This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other:
Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking
Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.
Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project's scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications. Our user research examined needs related to online as well as offline social networking and considered how they related to a unified social network service model. Through this user research we identified a set of archetypes that represent common behavior patterns that existed across multiple study participants and also formulated a summarized list of their high level needs.
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
BloggingZoom / User / Pablothehat / Submitted
Well I spent quite a bit of time on the BloggingZoom site this morning, setting up links to my Helium posting as they are sadly lacking in readership, and without readers, how do we know we are progressing as writers?
I really love this site, I love the idea, I love the layout, I love it's simple, uncluttered interface.
If you haven't signed up yet it is because you are in a coma.
BloggingZoom / User / Pablothehat / Submitted
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
BloggingZoom / Upcoming
One thing that I really enjoy and that is how helpful and community minded many of the people I have met on the net. I like to visit as often as I can, those sites I have reviewed earlier in The Tao, and one of these by Grizzly I visited this morning.
He was reviewing a social networking site Blogging Zoom which is set up for bloggers to bring more traffic, created by two more internet guru's (don't you just hate cliques!) I had not yet encountered, Courtney Tuttle, and Vic Franqui.
Apparently this social networking site is more geared to us 'Little Bloggers of the Lower Shire', those of us who are trying to gain a tentative, hairy, bare-foot hold on the Steep Winding Stair of Darkest Blogmoria.
By joining and submit your blog or article posting to Blogging Zoom along with a short description of what the item is about. It is then cast, like bread on the waters (pearl's before ..poof...go away little demon! ) to be voted on by other users.
This will hopefully start a community of bloggers who are all helping and supporting each other.
The creators site.
See your postings get listed where they can be voted upon by our peers...
You can monitor your posts progress in real time!
Once I signed up and had my first couple of posts up and running on BloggingZoom, I included it on my Netvibes page, where is mashed in quite easily.
As part of the incentive for spreading the word around about BloggingZoom if you create an article about Blogging Zoom and publish it on your site you will get a link from his Alexa ranked/ PR3 site.
Quality links are our life blood.
Check this out, this is a great idea and just might work if we all support each other.
By the way, did I mention that it is free? No? Well just shows how enthused I was!!!
Yes, there is no fee for this service, which sorta restores one's faith in your fellow human..for five minutes anyway!!
BloggingZoom / Upcoming
Monday, 5 November 2007
Managing all those Social Networks getting like hard work?
It is hard work all of this socialising. When you are paying attention to one, you are negleting another, ( at least that's how my partner feels!!)
Keeping on top of all those profiles in these different social networks and blog directories like facebook, myspace, blogcatalog, bloggertalk, mashable, technorati, zimbio, linkedin, xing, bebo, orkut, flickr, bravenet, decayenne, friendster, hi5, studivz, mybloglog, plazes, asmallworld .......is a lengthy, time consuming exercise if you solely rely on techniques as bookmarks.
I have found by using the Web 2.0 facility Netvibes you can bring all your feeds, your logging profiles and web pages to your own personalised home page!
See the screen shots below.
Sunday, 4 November 2007
Miroland's Audio & Video Blog
Could this be the Holy Grail of Web 2.0 of which I seek?
If not that well it certainly seem the one stop shop for all you blogging questions.
Teodor Miroslav Muntean hails from Romainia where he has been involved with business consulting since the early nineties with experience in small business consultancy, writing and publishing, targeted traffic strategies, article marketing social networking, Web 2.0. He terms himself as ' a Coachable Coach and Netpreneur', though I am not too sure what that means?
His site seem packed with streamed video from renowned experts in the field such as Tim O'Reilly (who?) and explanations to the concepts of Web 2.0 and Social Networking.
Now, if I can just stop blogging long enough to actually learn something.......
Miroland's Audio & Video Blog
1984 - Chapter 1 - George Orwell - Read Print
'Now children, please take out you reading material and commence reading from chapter one...'
No, I don't think George Orwell's, one of Britain' finest authors and prophets of social change, 1984 is going to find itself on the National Curriculum soon...don't want the natives restless what?
Now this is a good site, all those works of Literature that do not need shelf space or dusting can now be yours!!
1984 - Chapter 1 - George Orwell - Read Print
MY 2 Cents 4 the DAY
Are you an Apple Mac user?
Are you one of those social climbing trendy types who bought a Mac because
a) It was refreshingly expensive and thereby reflected your social standing at the time?
b) You wanted to look down on the plebeians next door who are Windows cripples?
Are you now finding that you end up talking to yourself because;
a) No one around you has the same hardware as you and
b) You have developed a groove in your forehead from the amount of times it has hit the keyboard?
Fear not My Mac-owning Mate!
Here is a site ran by a professional.. a photographer who purchased a Mac because he knew it was the best tool for the job.
(Construct a sentence from the following: Cat, pigeons, set, the, amongst, the)
MY 2 Cents 4 the DAY
Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window
I felt very honoured today that my blog was visited by Rose DesRochers, the founder of Blogger Talk Blogging Forum and the Today's Woman Writing Community.
Ms DesRochers is an established writer with a 20 year pedigree in published poetry and a freelance writing.
Her site is very clean, uncluttered, (as in contrast to my own LOL. Mmmm... a make over in the near future I think, then one for the site while I am at it! LOL.)
She blends her postings with as varied subjects as blogging tips, Meme, adding flavicon to your site, adding tag clouds, to Manties, which are apparently panties made just for men...to lead in lipstick.
(And no, that is not an open invitation to make some remark about my taste in dress sense Gina LOL.)
Her style of writing is as easy as a conversation with an old friend and she coveys information without any unnecessary verbiage, a skill which often alludes me.
An informative and approachable site.
Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window
Saturday, 3 November 2007
How to Make Money Online for Beginners
As you all know, I am constantly looking out for interesting or useful websites and blogs that might help us to get to grips with this 'Black Art' of trying to earn some cash from the net.
This is one that was recommended via the MyLot site.
It seems well designed and concise in its construction and the advice it gives is well geared towards the novice blogger. (That would be me then!)
How to Make Money Online for Beginners
