Audioblog.com is a commercial video and audio blogging service that are setting things up to make it easy for us to podcast or vblog. They seem to use Flash recorder utilities to make it easy. In the basic service that you get audio clips of up to an hour and 1 Gig of downloads a month (which they say would be 5000 downloads of 1 minute audio clips.)
How long before someone offers this for free?
So I bought a Griffin Technology iTalk – Voice Recorder for iPod. Why you may ask? … Well I want to play with podcasting and it seemed cheaper to get the iTalk for my iPod than to get a separate voice recorder.
Does it work? Well, I’m getting used to it after a bad start. I think I need to get a Lapel Mic and the right set up on my Mac for recording. (Tell me its easier than Engadget describes it!)
At feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps I created the following BlogMap,
Blogs Will Change Your Business is a long and thoughtful article on blogging from a business perspective. I’m not sure I’m convinced that businesses will be able to dominate the blogosphere, but the authors make a case for how businesses can adapt blogs to business uses. (Swamp us with high production blogs and who will bother with the amateurs?)
The article gives examples of businesses and how they have used blogs and discusses how blogging can establish consulting credibility.
The article is by Stephen Baker and Heather Green, and has a May 2, 2005 date line as the cover story for the upcoming BusinessWeek Magazine. This is thanks to Terry Flynn.
Continue reading Business Blogging
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else) (published April 6, 2005). I find it amazing that people need to be told that someone will eventually read what they publically write – blogging is like gossiping – if you talk about people in public, even if in a small public, it will eventually get back to them. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t be ashamed for everyone to read (even though they won’t).
Continue reading EFF Guide to Blogging Safely
Exploring with Wiki is a “A Conversation with Ward Cunninghanm” by Bill Venners, Oct. 20, 2003. Cunningham developed the first wiki for discussion and discovery of software patterns. This link is from James Chartrand.
Have you found it hard to keep up with all the new things at Google? Well now there is a Google Blog. Just found out about Google Code where Google programmer post open source code and keep API programmers updated.
New Communications Blogzine is a blog structured like a newsletter that focuses on new forms of communication like podcasts and blogs. It is aimed at communications people in media and business. It is associated with “blog university” which is mounting New Communications Forum events. (You can see pictures from one in Europe posted to Flickr.
The blogzine has some good short stories about new developments.
This thanks to Terry Flynn.
Thanks to a blog entry by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum I was led to an article in Inside Higher Ed :: MLA about “Bloggers in the Flesh” by Scott Jaschik that speculates on academic blogging and whether it should count to tenure.
An interesting point Matt makes is that you have to write assuming that your wife, chair or students might read your blog. Holding ideas in plain view can both make one cautious and lead to embarassment. I have, on at least one occaision, had someone tell me they scanned my blog to figure out what I am like as a person. So … just to warn you all … the author of this site is just a character and doesn’t resemble any living being, least of all me.
Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education is a great blog by Bryan Alexander that Patrik Svensson pointed me to.