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Posts Tagged ‘blogging

Blogging by one, for all

Posted by: minikristen on: October 7, 2008

I must have been a little grumpy in my last post about Scoble and Israel.  By the time I finished their book Naked Conversations, I was applauding blogs and their potential to unite this very fragmented political world.  OK, maybe that’s a little hyperbolic (and a big No-No according to the authors when it comes [...]

Blogging to survive

Posted by: minikristen on: September 30, 2008

I am not a fan of trends.  If I were, what would happen if I were to miss the memo that metallic snakeskin and excessive cleavage was no longer in?  Bad news, I tell ‘ya.
Some trends are worth a nod, and for the business moguls, it can mean millions of dollars in profit.  This is good for corporations and various [...]

Blog value

Posted by: minikristen on: September 15, 2008

There appears to be blurred boundaries on what exactly is a blogger.  Corey Doctorow et al. explain this very point in Essential Blogging (ch. 1) and conclude with various descriptors – “hunks of information,” “a soapbox” where editors and authors can post “whatever the hell we feel like,” etc. 
Regardless of the difficulty to really dissect [...]