Don’t worry about me, I’m still here!
Sorry for the long absence. It turns out that I can’t write or think straight when the world spins too fast around me, everything moves, I travel too many thousands of miles around the globe, and I get a nasty flu. But it seems that I survived the roller coaster ride for now and I’m ready for blogging.
Local Showcase: Fact-esque
The latest Philly Future featured blog is Fact-esque (the name comes from Stephen Colbert’s quote: “It’s been widely reported and that makes it fact-esque.”) Fact-esque is political, progressive, and anti-torture: who can ask for anything more?
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How to Blog: 4. Blog Networking
So, now you have a blog. What do you want to do with it? You can use it as an online publishing tool to create a website and put content on the internet. But you would be missing the wonderful potential that blogs have to connect people and ideas.
Most of us use blogs as a social and networking tool. We want others to see and hear what we’ve created. We enjoy finding other people who share our passions and see the world in the same way we do—or perhaps in a completely different way. We want to find people who say interesting things and discuss topics we care about.
If you too belong to the second category, you should learn something about blog networking. Find people you like and would like to connect with; go out and let other people know that you have a blog, are interested in what they say, and would like to start a conversation with them.
Local Showcase: I’ve made a huge tiny mistake
If you follow local sports, you need to check out I’ve made a huge tiny mistake, the current Philly Future featured blog. In his blog, Chris talks about sport (Phillies, Sixers, and more), entertainment, and current events. Oh, and don’t miss his on notice/dead to me a-la-Colbert list (I had to look up Fabio Castro on Google, you judge how carefully I follow local baseball).
Chris: congratulations and happy featured blog. Everybody else, pay a visit and say hello to Chris. And many thanks to those who voted for my blog.
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How to blog is coming back
Easton Ellsworth at Business Blog Wire has blogtipped me (thank you!) and kindly reminded me that I have been neglecting the How to Blog series for too long.
I know, I’ve been bad. But new posts on how to blog are in the works, and you’ll see something soon.
If you love me, vote for my blog
AntonellaPavese.com is one of the four blogs nominated for the Philly Future Featured Blog Poll (many thanks to Karl and Albert for the nomination). The other three nominees are: Badminton Stamps, I’ve Made a Huge Tiny Mistake, and Literal Barrage. Vote for your favorite Philly blogs here until Sunday at 5:00 PM (to vote, you’ll need to register at Philly Future).
Good luck to everybody.
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Links - August 26, 2006
- In Six Steps to Everyday Activism, Britt Bravo—who want us to Have Fun - Do Good—summarizes six best practices for maintaining hope and enthusiasm when trying to save the world.
- It’s been almost one year since the hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Last September, Zadi Diaz made news with her Katrina video Wake me up when September ends. One year later, it still brings back all the pain and the rage.
- More heartbreaking Katrina stories collected by NPR for StoryCorps.
- Amy Gahran talks about the Iranian blogosphere (”You may be as surprised as I was to learn that Farsi is one of the most popular languages in the blogosphere”) in Time for Blogging Diplomacy? and suggests that “perhaps blogs might represent a potentially powerful new avenue for person-to-person diplomacy.”
- Jeneane’s take on Pluto’s demotion. Web 2.0 ha-ha funny.
IT Conversations with myself: is danah boyd cool or what?
Anto: What do you think of danah boyd? Don’t you think she’s supercool?
nella: [continuing to read Scoble's post about investing in blogging] Yeah, she is OK.
Anto: OK? Just OK? Have you read her post on superpublics?
nella: [click-hopping to Jeneane Sessum's post on the history of "small is the new big"] Yes, I did. It’s interesting.
Anto: She has all these great ideas on social networks online.
nella: [Now reading Hugh McLeod] She’s writing her dissertation on social networks; it would be surprising if she didn’t have interesting things to say.
Anto: My dissertation was not that interesting.
nella: [scanning Shelly's posts on The bbgun] Here we go again.
Anto: No, really.
nella: [makes faces while reading Stowe Boyd's /Blip of the week; wonders if Stowe and danah are related]
Anto: Stop it!
nella: You stop it.
Silence. Click. Click. Click.
Anto: OK, but she has more interesting things to say that many A-listers.
nella: [reading BoingBoing making fun of the Wall Street Journal] I would agree with that.
Silence, except for furious typing.
Anto: Are you angry at me?
nella: No, I’m not.
Anto: Are we OK then?
nella: We are golden.
Silence. Typing. More typing. Silence.
Anto: I love you.
nella: I love you, too. Now shut up. Trying to be a serious blogger here.
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