Sunday, October 7, 2007

Blog help sites

Places and sites too dress up your page

Some of these you may have too become a member

Pimp my year book pimp.myYearbook.com
Clock for your blog


Glittery Images myspace layouts, myspace codes, glitter graphics


Backgrounds and Textures
Free Web Hit Counter Free Web Hit Counter
File Hosting (for blast mp3’s)
Flash Games MySpace Games
Karaoke player
Userbars
Photobucket
Flickr Flickr logo. If you click it, you'll go home
Slideshows Slide.com
Buddy Mapping – Google image map

As it says .... 360 Themes, all in Vietnamese but the Themes are great!

Download free themes for your 360

360º Groups that specialize in Help,

Technical questions, Themes and Finding Friends


360º Custom
Themes group

360º Friends

360º Help




360º Forum

Blog Magic

MY360MI


Saturday, October 6, 2007

The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary

The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary
click heading too go too original post

BLOGGING

  • Weblog- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic,
  • often in reverse chronological order.
  • Blog - short form for weblog
  • Blogging - the act of posting on blogs
  • Blogger - a person who blogs
  • Blogosphere - The internet blogging community

BLOGGING FORMS

  • Photoblogging - a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers
  • Podcasting - a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are created by podcasters.
  • Autocasting - is an automated form of podcasting
  • Blogcasting - the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.
  • Vlogging - Also called video blogging. Shortened to vlog. Posted by vlogger. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.
  • Audioblogging - Also called audioblog, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by audioblogger.
  • Moblogging - Also called moblogs. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by mobloggers.

BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS

  • Index page - the front page fo the blog
  • Header - the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.
  • Footer - the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements
  • Sidebar - One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page
  • Categories - A collection of topic specific posts
  • Post, Entry- individual articles that make up a blog
  • Comments - enabling readers to leave their remarks
  • Captcha - short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Those word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human and not a bot. Helful to block automated spam comments. more
  • Ping - Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.
  • Trackback - A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you
  • Pingback - See trackback.
  • Permalink - A link to a specific article
  • Tags - labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts
  • Tag cloud - Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.
  • Blogroll - list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com
  • Sideblog - A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.
  • Template - the blog presentation design
  • BlogThis - a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading
  • Plugins - Small files that add improved functionality and new features. Wordpress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity
  • Dashboard - When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.
  • Archives - a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.
  • Expandable post summaries - show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post. more
  • Jump - the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.
  • FTP - short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla

WEB FEEDS

  • Web Feed - allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.
  • RSS - a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0). Wordpress generates RSS 2.0
  • XML - short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.
  • RDF - short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.
  • Atom - another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.
  • OPML - short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.
  • Photofeed- a web feed with image enclosures.

BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS

  • Blogger - a free blogging platform by Google.
  • Blogspot - free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com
  • LiveJournal - free blogging tool by SixApart
  • Movable Type - paid blogging tool by SixApart
  • Typepad - paid blogging tool by SixApart
  • Wordpress.org- Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.
  • Wordpress.com - A Wordpress blog hosted free for you.
  • Radio Userland - another blog publishing software package

TYPES OF BLOGS

  • Group blog- with multiple contributing bloggers.
  • Event blog - focussed on an event
  • Kittyblogger - writing about cats.
  • Celeblog - focused on a celebrity.
  • Celebriblog - maintained by a celebrity.
  • Clog Blog - written in Dutch and/or in Holland.
  • CEOBlog - run by a chief executive officer.
  • Plog - a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs
  • Movlogs - mobile video blogs.
  • Splog- a spam blog
  • Tech blog - focused on a technical subject.
  • Anonoblog - by an anonymous blogger
  • Linguablog - about linguistics, translation etc.
  • Metablog - a blog about blogging.
  • Milblog - a military blog.
  • Blawg - blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff
  • Edu-blog - education oriented blog.
  • Progblog - A progressive blog.
  • Shocklog - provokes discussion by posting shocking content
  • Klog - used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers
  • Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
  • Dark Blog- A non-public blog
  • Photocast- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

BLOGGING HABITS

  • Metablogging - writing articles about blogging
  • Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?
  • Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
  • Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
  • Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
  • Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
  • Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
  • GAD - Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings. more
  • Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
  • Blog hopping - jumping from one blog to another
  • Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
  • Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
  • Blogorific = blogtastic - something which a blogger says is terrific
  • Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
  • Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
  • Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
  • Blogathon - update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships. more
  • Blogiversary - your blog birthday
  • Blog Carnival - Links to other articles covering a specific topic.
  • Multiblog - running multiple blogs
  • Blog Tipping - Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month. more
  • Blogger bash - a blogger party
  • Commenter - someone who leaves remarks / comments
  • Reciprocal Links - called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.
  • Linkbaiting - a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.
  • Blogstorm - a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
  • Blogsnob - refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
  • Doppelblogger - plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
  • Blogophobia - Fear of blogs and blogging.
  • Bloggerel - the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog

BLOGGER TYPES

  • Problogger - professional blogger
  • Blognoscenti - especially knowledgable bloggers
  • Blogebrity - a famous blogger.
  • Blogerati - the blogosphere intelligentsia.
  • Commentariat - The community of those leaving comments.
  • Dooced - lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.
  • Blogther - a fellow blogger.
  • A-List- the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.
  • Blogstar- blogger running a popular blog

OTHER BLOGGING TERMS

  • Bloggies- Annual blogging awards. more
  • MSM - Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.
  • BSM - Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.
  • Blog Day - 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them. more
  • Blaudience - your blog audience.
  • Blargon - Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.
  • Blogiversary - your blog birthday
  • Blogiverse - see blogosphere
  • XFN - short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
  • Blogonomics - blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006. more
  • EFF - short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.
  • Blog of Note - a recommended blog. more
  • Navbar - a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs. more
  • Blook - a book created from a blog. more
  • Hat Tip- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.
  • Spomments- Spam comments
  • Blammer- Blog spammer
  • SOB- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com
  • Blogiday- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging

BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES

  • Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, - are News Aggregators that display content from syndicated Web content from web feed. Can be configured online or downloaded on your desktop. Like . Also called RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers
  • Pageflakes, Newsvine - Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.
  • Odeo, Podnova - are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like
  • Feedburner - a professional feed management system
  • Pingomatic, Pingoat - ping multiple blog tracking services. More
  • Feedblitz, Zokooda - Email subscriptions and newletter tools.
  • Technorati - a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere
  • b5media, 9rules - examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.
  • K2, Blix - names of some popular wordpress themes.
  • Blogexplosion, Blogclicker- popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.
  • Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitka, Blogads - popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.
  • Sphere, Icerocket - blog search engines
  • Live Bookmarks - a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.
  • Creative Commons - licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
  • CoComment - Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations
  • WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna - desktop blog publishing tools
  • Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics - site traffic tracking tools.
  • Haloscan- free trackback service
  • YouTube, Rapidshare- puts video on your blog
  • Flickr, Imageshack - photo sharing service. Host images on your blog
  • Del.icio.us, furl, spurl - share social bookmarks.
  • Blogburst - Syndicating your feed to top publishers.
  • Bloggeropoly - professional blogger recruiting agency. more
  • Blogger code - a way to describe different types of bloggers. more
  • Bloggoggle - Directory of Blogging Professionals
  • BlogHer - where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org

BLOG TRAFFIC SURGES

  • Digged - link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog
  • Slashdotted - link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog. more
  • Instalanche - link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog
  • Farked - link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog
  • Boing Boinged - link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog

MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS

  • Ajax - acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.
  • Greasemonkey - a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.
  • Wiki - a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.
  • SEO - search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.
  • Page Rank - Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.
  • CMS - short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.


Friday, October 5, 2007

Signs Of Blogging Addiction

Blogging signs of addiction, blog terms and blog title hints

Signs Of Blogging Addiction



From the Bloggers Anon “fess up” post
Compiled by Dana and the members of the Bloggers Anonymous 360º page

I know the numbers don’t match up …. Why? Because they don’t!


Denial is the first sign
Number 2 getting up earlier to catch friends in a different time zone
Number 3 dreamin of Blog friends
Number 4 Putting Blogging ahead of the job
Number 5 ignoring a call to eat food and it is getting cold and I never miss a meal.
Number 6 kids calling you on your addiction
Number 7 burning meals
Number 8 doing a happy dance for comments
Number 9 Ignoring real life friends
Number 10 you forget all about your favourite shows that you used to watch because you are Blogging
Number 12 sign of addiction Unpaid time at work
Number 13 getting mad because you are not one of the first commenters
Number 18 the purchase of a cell phone to Blog.
Number 19 when you pick foods that can’t mess with the keyboard
Number 20 Court Orders
Number 21 sign of addiction harassment are the and
Number 22.Intentionally misspell to move onto other Blogs at a speed faster than light
Number 29 hijacking a stranger’s computer to check in on 360
Number 30 your frequent mass comments.
Number 32. Traveling via your 360 friends list
Number 41. someone else tells you that you are a blogaholic
Number 45. running all the hot water out of your shower without showering
Number48. ‘Jamas all day
Number61. procrastinating cleaning your garage
Number72. when you start betting Blog backgrounds and themes
Number89. you hate an inanimate object (Blogs don’t have guts) The next bad sign was taking photos exclusively to post in my Blogs brush my hair without ever leaving 360!
Number102. sign of addiction patting others down in Blogs is highly Eye legal and also the
Number175. when you call it the weekend and its Monday
Number 200. when you say g’night and come back just once more to check what’s been posted since lol G’night all
Number 250. You have more than one 360 Blog and more Blogs on other sites
Number 360. Compiling this list




Click too go too the BA 360 page

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Blogging a 12 step program

Blogging a 12 step program

Originally posted my Myk

Rules

1. Blog 12 step program

2. Post on your blog; put the link to your blog post in the comments section for this post
Bloggers Anonymous a 12 step program

These are Myk’s 12 steps

  1. To admit I have a "f**king" Blogging problem
  2. Blogging is really 1's and 0's nothing else
  3. 360 comments are the fabrics of truth in life
  4. make a decision saying I cant get off my ass to stop Blogging
  5. will make an inventory of all my blog friends to see if they need help too
  6. admitting to 360 Techies I am wrong and they know more then me
  7. I am ready to face the real world instead of living on “drama” land
  8. fresh air is better then recycled air
  9. ask the techies to remove my ADSL or cable modem lines
  10. will apologize to all my real friends for replacing them with virtual friends
  11. Realizing there are other outlets of communications in life
  12. Have faith that my family will remember my face

Entries already posted

Heaven Leigh
Kevin (friends only)
Sugarbear
Dana

Monday, October 1, 2007

What is a blog ?

What is a blog ?

What’s the best way to blog?

Why do you blog?

How many entries are too many?

How do I get readers?

At Bloggers Anonymous we get a lot of questions asked along those lines

This is part of a blog entry I wrote last year original post here

What is a Blog?

There are many definitions

“A Weblog or blog is a web-based publication of periodic articles
(posts), which in the case of Yahoo! 360, may contain written
material, links or photos” –Mister E

“An online journal or diary”- unwriter

But of course I like mine

A blog is a place where you can write about what ever you want, put pictures of your grandkids tell others what you are doing share your thoughts on the news, the weather, basically whatever you feel the need to share with others

The word Blog is biography shortened it’s YOUR story written by you

We all in some way sometime or another feel the need to write what we are feeling about something whether we agree with it, disagree or we just want to tell others about something we have found, the blog is the new publication the new age diary, remember the diary written by the young Jewish girl trapped in the cellar in Nazi Germany?

A Blog is the same thing, she had pencil and paper we have a computer keyboard.

Maybe or maybe not your story might get seen by hundreds of people and like her you won’t get any rewards (Anne Frank never saw her words in print, her diary found after the holocaust) but like her you write for your sake not for the future enjoyment of others you can rant and rave all you want because it is your Blog your space your diary and even if some might get offended by what you write it is your little bit to do with what you want (within Yahoo guidelines of course)

Obviously the intimate details of your sex life or your fantasy sex life will offend some people and does go against Yahoo’s Terms of Service so I would keep that to your self you can still write about it, you can write about anything you want on your own computer on Word, send it into a magazine like Cosmo or another publication

You never know they might even pay you

So that’s my answer on what is a blog and as some of you have done your 12 steps, not all but hey that doesn’t matter it’s not like we are giving out grades or anything

I’ll ask you a question

Why do you blog?

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Bloggers Anonymous Freebies


Blog Board designed by Pickles and friends


Calendar by Joy

One of the many styles of Bloggers Anonymous T-Shirts avalilable
Here

Monday, August 27, 2007

Party Time!! .... August 27, 2007


Party time!

Its Bloggers anonymous 1st birthday

Time for a party

We were going to send out invites saying bring a plate but we don't need any more plates
7_Plate.jpg image by missy_angel66
So come with a smile monkey_smile.jpg image by missy_angel66

Don't forget a chair Sports_Chair2.jpg image by missy_angel66

There will be plenty of jello_shots.jpg image by missy_angel66 and helios-rum-dark-rum-15-nen-792832.jpg image by missy_angel66

and non alcoholic drinks for those who don't drink orange_juice.jpg image by missy_angel66

and plenty of food couscous.jpg image by missy_angel66carrotcake.jpg image by missy_angel66RoastedRosemaryPotatoSalad.jpg image by missy_angel66pho_ice_cream_sundae.jpg image by missy_angel66donuts4.jpg image by missy_angel66BA_chinease.jpg image by missy_angel66donuts6.jpg image by missy_angel66 even cake pc_cake.jpg image by missy_angel66

If you want to BYO you can but I think we have that covered TrueAussieEsky.jpg picture by missy_angel66

Our mascots will even greet you at the door

teddycostsmdana.jpg image by missy_angel66 snowbunnypink.jpg image by missy_angel66


with a free hat ba_hat.jpg image by missy_angel66 as you can't have a party without a hat,
get here on your bikeon_bike2.jpg image by missy_angel66 or on a bus Bus.jpg image by missy_angel66
you can even bring Chuck grand-master-chuck-norris-bn.jpg chuck image by missy_angel66

no lurking in the kitchen allowed kitchen_beast.jpg image by missy_angel66

this is a party so lets all get up and dance stickman.gif image by missy_angel66

Party Time!!

yes some of the peeps who help out with BA are on this post

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

So much choice we can't choose .. August 07, 2007


Last post we asked for suggestions for topics and challenges “Ideas for Bloggers Anonymous “

Here are 10 of your suggestions

  1. How about a word game, where you post a word, then the next person posts a word connected to yours, and so forth.
  1. I like to post a question...say like "Your scariest moment", "Embarrassing moment, etc. and have people leave me their comments. Then the next day, I post it in a blog. Names withheld of course..
  1. How about a weekly writing challenge? Maybe post a blog of theme ideas and let members vote on the themes.
  1. How about someone starting a line for a story, then each proceeding comment would add to the story or poem.
  1. Always like having a meet & greet.
  1. Recently saw a blog I thought was cool. Each Wednesday the blogger posts a topic for Friday and each blogger interprets it in the form of a photo and a blog. Blue was this weeks - it is amazing how many ways people can look at "blue"
  1. We could play the True/False game! Maija had it on her page awhile back and we all had a blast! Here's the link!
  1. Was going to suggest word association but someone beat me too it so.... how about 1st memories or something like that?
  1. Like the idea of going to the person on top of your comment page, first thing in the morning, click on, go to that blog, leave a comment. Click on the top of their page, go to the top comment on their page and visit with a comment. Must tell you that you may have to give up before you run out of blogs. But it’s good to leave a smile or a hug....
  1. Posted a "MENT" game on my page, try to check this one if it is possible to be posted here, thanks...

So now the fun part …which one?

Think we will do a poll to choose because we can’t , in the meantime feel free to do any of the suggestions above on your own blog.

umm those are sopposed to have different numbers and they all came up as 1 whoops

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Blogging Hints ... July 22, 2007


Blogging tips

We are always getting asked for blogging tips here …don’t know why that is but anyway here are a few helpful blogging tips for you

1. Be yourself, write about what is on your mind, write about the dog, the cat even what is in your refrigerator

2. Be yourself, try not to use someone else’s poem or writing without their permission or at least putting their name on the bottom

3. Be yourself, you might think your life is boring but it isn’t really, that new mailbox of yours might be the best blog you have ever written just waiting for you to put it in your blog.

4. Be yourself, doesn’t matter if your spellingk ist bud or your language is this
ب كى بار يه ساون بن برساهى write for you

5. Be yourself, all the great writers wrote about their own world Stephen King, Beatrix Potter even Robert Ludlum all wrote about places they had been to, their books have characters in them that the authors knew.

And finally write for you, it doesn’t matter who reads you aren’t their free entertainment, you don’t have to keep the masses happy if they like it they will come back.

“Build it and they will come”- Field of Dreams

The Arabic is part of a sad poem; unfortunately we don’t have an English translation or an author.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Birthday July 07

This month is Bloggers Anonymous birthday
Actually founded on July the 31st but July is the birthday month
besides we can't wait till the end of the month its way to exciting for that

Bloggers Anonymous the Yahoo group is 1 year old !!

So lets party!