Monday, October 30, 2006
How to Launch a Career With Your Blog
How your blog can get you the career of your dreams--if you are willing to work at it.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Putting blogs to work for Wall Street
Collective Intellect has a goal: Make bloggers work for The Man.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Charities Blog
Here's a blog site whose main focus is the world of charities. The site covers such categories as disaster relief, fundraising, Paul Newman's efforts in pursuit of common good, and more.
Check out the sites 'navigation' button.
Check out the sites 'navigation' button.
Add a favicon to your blog
It is great to have your blog as something distinct from the rest of the other blogs in the blogosphere. Be it in the way it looks via the template or the way you converse with your readers, there’s something about a blog that exudes the aura of the person behind it. And there are also other things like the favicon.
What is a favicon?
You probably surf the ‘Net everyday and you see on the address bar on your browser a small icon beside the URL of a site or a blog. If you add site to your favorite bookmarks, you could also see that little icon. I personally think that it is great to have those little icons because it helps me sort out which site is which. A simple glance at it and - voila! - I easily identify it. You could also put one on your blog if you like.
How do you put a favicon?
It’s not very difficult. You need to decide on what icon you would like to put there. It could from a picture, a drawing or a logo that you made. I recommend that you use a simple image. Why? You need to see something that could be distinguised at 16×16pixels. Using your favorite graphics software, create one. You could probably use a bigger canvas like 64×64 pixels then just resize it later. Save the file as .ico. If you are using Photoshop, you need to install a plugin which you get from here. Make sure you name it as favicon.ico.
After you created your favicon, upload it at the directory with your index or home file. Then, you have to put this at the header of the files on your site:
If you test it and it doesn’t show up right away, just do a refresh. The next time someone visits your blog and bookmarks it, your favicon will show up. This would help you in making your blog distinct, indeed.
The Blog Herald: Podcast
The leading source of news covering the blogosphere, Web 2.0, new technology, and related topics.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Sun CEO says blogs should satisfy SEC disclosure rules
A prominent Silicon Valley chief executive has asked U.S. market regulators to accept his blog entries as adequate to meet certain corporate disclosure requirements.
Blogs to books: A six-figure industry?
Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles destined to yield disappointing sales.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Ok, one more corporate blog of the week: Sun
In an AP story that ran in the San Jose Mercury News and dozens of other papers, reporter Rachel Konrad writes about Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwarty, who is the most persistent evangelist for top dog bloggers.
A bird? A plane? A New kind of corporate blog?
Dave Balter, author of Grapevine and founder of BzzAgent, is up to something intriguing. Today he launched a new company blog called The Bento Box.
Take a look. It's kind of a blog as performance art. (Be sure to click on the image to listen to the audio segments.) BzzAgent has hired two high profile contributors to create the blog: John Butman, a professional writer and author; and artist Seth Minkin.
Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers
A telephone survey of a nationally-representative sample of bloggers, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, has found that blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world.
View the full report -- Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers.
View the full report -- Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers.
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