Personal BloggingKevin Smith - the Fiddling Librarian
Assistant Director, Cass District Library
Violist, Prometheus String Quartet
Husband and father of two
Why do I blog? Stay in touch with friends and family Keep me up to date Organize my thoughts Practice Web skills Cheaper than therapy
History of the Fiddling Librarian Started on Blogger.com in 2003 Moved to Weblogs.us in March 2004 March 2005 moved to WordPress
What are some features of blogs? Title and statement of purpose Time and date stamp Comments RSS feed
RSS Aggregators Bloglines - web-based, free Windows based
http://www.sharpreader.net/ http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/
Mac OS Xhttp://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Linuxhttp://www.nongnu.org/straw/
Where can I go to blog? Blogger
Good for beginners Easy to use Free hosting
Movable Type More feature rich Not free Requires PHP and
MYSQL
TypePad Easier to use version of
Movable Type Requires a subscription
WordPress Similar to Movable
Type Free software Requires PHP and
MYSQL
What should I blog? What interests you What might be interesting to your audience
Things of professional interest Politics and current events Hobbies & lifestyle Family
Photos
Photo Blogs Flickr
20 MB monthly upload limit 3 photosets Photostream views limited to the 200 most
recent images Storage of smaller (resized) images Friends and family can leave comments Photo posts can be “blogged” to other blogs
When should I blog? People who blog often are read more
frequently and People who write interesting blogs are also
read frequently Maintaining a balance between these two
elements is challenging
Blogging Etiquette Be careful Don't write anything that you don't want read
by everyone Don't get Dooced!
Finding Blogs http://technorati.com/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://www.feedster.com/ Blogrools