Technology

  • The Nashville blogging scene is pretty cool

    One of the best parts of attending BlogNashville was that I came away reading about 10 or so new blogs, at least 4 of them Nashville locals. Two of my favorites after a fortnight: Tim Morgan Saucy Librarian UPDATE: Welcome Nashvilleians, and thanks Brittney (even though you made fun of me twice in two days,…

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  • Professional ad blogger: frequency, professional design matter

    B.L. Ochman (one of the many fine folks I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville last weekend) has begun an interview series on her blog, whatsnext. First up is Adrants Steve Hall, who says, among other things, that frequency matters when blogging professionally: Hall posts 12 to 15 times a day. He doesn’t have…

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  • People who should be blogging, volume 1

    An unfinished list of people who I wish would start blogging* (because they’d be good, fun, and/or interesting doing it): * I had a certain Food Network host here, but I had to remove her because I was bombarded with Google image searches for her. Sorry, RR! *Cousin Sal, that fat, annoying idiot from Jimmy…

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  • Don’t F with Cox

    If you’re a member of the mainstream media, here’s a newsflash: Don’t F with Bob Cox. Here’s the original reason. Here’s the latest reason.

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  • The Nashville Scene on BlogNash

    Here’s Brittney Gilbert’s long, interesting Nashville Scene cover story on BlogNashville.

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  • Thank you, Mark!

    Mark Glaser, one of the best writers out there covering the web/blogging beat, has posted a great wrap-up of BlogNashville over at OJR. Glaser summarizes the key points coming out of the conference by offering up a list of “Seven big ideas (and one pet peeve)”…and lo and behold, the list includes one item created…

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  • Final thoughts on BlogNashville

    Now that BlogNashville is in the rear-view mirror, I have two final thoughts. My first comment is a big yee haw! If you click the fuzzy picture up top here, you’ll see a full-size screenshot of Blogdex, a service that essentially takes a snapshot of the most popular links around the blogosphere on a given…

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  • Holy cow

    Hugh McLeod’s “why corporate blogging works” is a revealtory post. it’s practically a treatise.

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  • A better Flickr badge and a late scoop

    Last week, I was messing around with this site and stumbled onto what might’ve been a scoop had I actually posted it in time. Here’s what I wrote then but never published: Tired of that pretty limited “put Flickr photos on your site” widget that Flickr calls a badge? Well by accident last week, I…

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  • Dang, that’s a nice site!

    Via Glenn, we learn that Tennessee Governor Phil Bresden is now blogging at his state’s official website, Tennessee.gov/governor. (Too bad they didn’t call it tennesse.gov/ernor, right?). A couple of thoughts on this: * Did Bill Hobbs get Gov. Bresden blogging? Or was it his state’s larger (and surprisingly larger) blogging community that got him started?…

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