For some, blogging is not as easy as it may sound. Whenever you break it down to issues such as how to get readers to your blog, how to get them to comment, and then what to do with the negative comments, it can be quite a challenge. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince spoke with Leo Laporte, host of TWiT.tv and blogger of Leoville.com, as well as Matt Mullenweg, Founding Developer of WordPress and blogger of photomatt.net about these very issues.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Eighth Anual web blog awards
Hows this the nominations for
Best Web Application for Weblogs -- Youtube ,Twitter, Blogger, Flickr and Wordpress
Now they are defining a blog as a page with dated entries "Something that helps you publish, make comments, anything that has to do with developing a weblog." which I suppose Youtube, Twitter and Flickr all have but they aren't blogging platforms
Yes they have dated entries and publish but they don't publish blogs
What do you think is Flickr a blogging platform can you BLOG on it ?
Maybe I've missed something because by that definition Yahoo messenger is a blog you can make "comments" on that can't you
No I don't get it at all
What do you think ? Take a look here
Best Web Application for Weblogs -- Youtube ,Twitter, Blogger, Flickr and Wordpress
Now they are defining a blog as a page with dated entries "Something that helps you publish, make comments, anything that has to do with developing a weblog." which I suppose Youtube, Twitter and Flickr all have but they aren't blogging platforms
Yes they have dated entries and publish but they don't publish blogs
What do you think is Flickr a blogging platform can you BLOG on it ?
Maybe I've missed something because by that definition Yahoo messenger is a blog you can make "comments" on that can't you
No I don't get it at all
What do you think ? Take a look here
Friday, December 21, 2007
seriuosly
I can't spell and you lot aren't blogging enough..seriously
Got Bloggers Anonymous there with 109 members and NO blog links ..like
Seriuosly Bloggers Anonymous is the only group of its kind on Multiply .. its the only alive group of its kind anywhere actually there are only 389 members left in the Y group, and its dead now (was 420 and 3-4 posts every day) so we ..no wait YOU gotta keep blogging
or am I
here?
Seriousky !
I know this time of year its difficult ..I'm typing this at 2am but look guys I can't do it all myself I want cheezes on there, I want blog links posted
What do I gotta do run some half assed competition or ask what folks did in the summer holidays...arrgh no thanks
You gotta get over there and start posting on BA
Got Bloggers Anonymous there with 109 members and NO blog links ..like
Seriuosly Bloggers Anonymous is the only group of its kind on Multiply .. its the only alive group of its kind anywhere actually there are only 389 members left in the Y group, and its dead now (was 420 and 3-4 posts every day) so we ..no wait YOU gotta keep blogging
or am I
here?Seriousky !
I know this time of year its difficult ..I'm typing this at 2am but look guys I can't do it all myself I want cheezes on there, I want blog links posted
What do I gotta do run some half assed competition or ask what folks did in the summer holidays...arrgh no thanks
You gotta get over there and start posting on BA
Friday, November 9, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
360 Refugees are Welcome
We were such dedicated citizens of Y! 360.
We stood behind them all the way. joining groups in support of them.
We made T shirts proclaiming our addiction to them. sometimes we even had to make little clinics to try and get away from 360. Like rehab...sadly it never worked.
i managed to escape 360 for some time and moved to Blogger. I lasted for a while but 360 would shine in the distance.
So I slowly would sneak back more and more just to see what people were up to.
I would comment here and there. One day I found myself doing a challenge.
Pretty soon, I was blogging full force ahead at the speed of light again.
Then I realized I loved it again.
Then...the inevitable happened.
The 360 product blog pretty much said..."Um thanks but no thanks...we don't care about you bloggers...and you're little groups too!" *evil laugh*
So I took refuge in blogger, well actually I was already here.
But now that my favorite group is also here, I would like to take the time to introduce Bloggers Anon to any new potential members from blogspot or welcome any refugees from 360.
Bloggers Anon is a place where we get together, drink coffe, eat whatever anyone made and talk about our favorite pasttime blogging. If anyone reads this just introduce yourself please?
I will start "My name is Dana, I blog."
*takes sip of coffee*
"I started my blogspot because of drama on 360. Then I went back to 360 because of friends. B-b-b-but 360 don't want me anymore!"
*sobs*
*Anyway, I will be over here in the corner...please carry on..."
*crawls in tent*
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Bloggers Anonymous
Bloggers Anonymous
When not on 360 do you find yourself thinking about it?
Do you find yourself blogging and surfing on 360 for more than 3 hours?
Has anyone commented (on 360 and off-line) that you blog on 360 too much?
Then it’s time to be honest. You have a 360 addiction
This group is for the 360 addicts who dont need any more friends, dont need help, just get very itchy and twitchy when away from 360
Thanks go too Hyiidra, Red7 and Eddo
who gave both the ideas and the inspiration to form this group
What Bloggers Anonymous does
Bloggers Anon is here for fun, too help people out with post ideas, getting a picture for your avatar,
getting you involved in 360º, helping you with Bloggers block, getting you too laugh and enjoy life on 360º
If you need help with your Blogging Addiction you are in the right place
Bloggers Anonymous the 360º page and Bloggers Anonymous the group
Bloggers Anonymous isn’t here to get you too give up Blogging it’s here too help you enjoy it more .
The group and the 360º page are Bloggers Anonymous
What Bloggers Anon does not do.
Bloggers Anonymous does not do technical help for 360º, help you with a theme
or help you collect friends
There are plenty of other groups that will help you with those things click here for more
and if you know of any more say so Bloggers Anon will join them
as Bloggers Anon likes too join the other 360º help groups,
it helps them get more members and advertises their groups.
Bloggers Anon joining the other groups also helps members of Bloggers anon too
those groups can help you where we can’t they have files and archives just for technical help and themes.
BA has files on Blogging addiction and addict T-shirts
Bloggers Anonymous is a stand alone group it’s not like any other 360º group .
Most of our members both in the group and on the 360º page are long time residents of 360º
The 05’ers, been using 360º so long it’s imprinted in their brains .
True addicts that don’t need friends, help or themes
Even though we can help you out with technical information on how too use your page we don’t because that not what Bloggers Anonymous does, technical help isn’t fun at all
We would rather be Blogging
The group and the Yahoo 360 page basically are a little joke we don't take things seriously here at Bloggers Anonymous because we aren't serious, people we aren't that serious .
Remember the Bloggers Anonymous motto
No Drama, No B/S just FUN!
Changes....October 09, 2007
- Changes....October 09, 2007
- What is blogging anyway?
If you blog you blog, doesn't matter if you blog on 360 or Blogger or even MySpace
A blog is a blog and if you have a blogging addiction you have a blogging addiction!
See we have a little problem here on Bloggers Anonymous our group membership is falling due to members leaving 360 and Yahoo.
The Blogger version of Bloggers Anonymous hasn't been updated for years and the other blogging addiction groups on other formats are not being updated either ours is the only blogging addiction group that has any life in it at all.
So to keep Bloggers Anonymous alive the group will now be open to all bloggers from anywhere !
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bloggers on Blogging - Main
Bloggers Anonymous is currently running a “Bloggers on Blogging” blog and I’m putting them here on Bloggers Anonymous as they come in that way anyone can have the chance to write something.
You can email yours to Bloggers Anonymous or do one yourself on your own blog and leave a link here on the Bloggers Anonymous Forum page or on the Bloggers Anonymous 360° pageAll submissions must be written by people with a Yahoo 360° page or blog on another site and can be anonymous
Bloggers on Blogging - Ondo Lady and Eddo
Ondo Lady writes on Blogging for The New Black Magazine
This Blogging Life
April 24, 2007.
Blogging is a form of social networking where like minded people can share their lives, thoughts and ideas as well as promoting themselves online. Just as every thriving business has a website you will be hard pressed to find an artist, company or general Joes Bloggs who does not have a blog.
In a way we all have MySpace to blame for that, the Cinderella story of artists hitting the big time through blogging and social-networking are now common folklore.
Today blogging is so ingrained in society that it now has numerous awards contests. One of the largest is the Weblog Awards and there is also the Bloggers Choice Awards but the new kid on the block is Best of the Brit Blog Awards 07 (The BOBBs). This new award is organised by freebie paper, The Metro and cool lifestyle website, Askmen.com with the aim of finding Britain's Best Blog. Celebrities such as England cricketer, Alastair Cook and TV presenter, Jason Bradbury along with the public have selected from categories such as arts, entertainment, travel and fashion and the winner will be announced shortly.
Blogging is basically an online diary where people post their thoughts, rants and ideas but what is so exciting is that you can upload photos, audio (podcasting) and video (vlogs) The interactive elements allow people to leave comments on your page and create links to other sites.
It is amazing to think that the first blog was created in 1994 just after the internet was started and today a blog is created every second and there are over 60 million blogs worldwide. The launch of blog hosts such as Facebook, TypePad, LiveJournal, Yahoo 360 and the infamous MySpace make is very simple for users to create a blog.
So what is the fascination with blogging, why do people do it and where do they get their ideas from? We spoke to four prolific bloggers to find out what inspired them to blog.
Eddie, the Birdman, aged 31 is an Administrator who lives in New York City.
I started blogging in August of 2005, but I didn't start to take it seriously until December of that same year when many readers started taking notice and interest. Thereafter it snowballed into what you see today. I started because I wanted to chronicle my life in New York City. After what happened in 9/11, the city went through dramatic changes and I wanted to be so much a part of that change.
These are exciting times but by all means, I wanted to practise my writings. Blogging was also my way of letting out the creative energies I possessed. I was an art major in college and I no longer pursued that career. Blogging has allowed me to be an artist. At one point, I cranked out a blog every night or every morning. It became an obsession that needed real management. Now, I blog mostly during the weekdays. It's like a career, isn't it?
I chose Yahoo 360 because it was simply easy to compose and write unlike Live Journal which is more a publishing site. I have a LiveJournal in case 360 goes 'ka-blewey!' Nothing lasts forever, you know. I get most of my ideas from real experiences. I explore NYC as much as I can and I carry a camera phone which helps illustrate my findings.
People are naturally drawn to those blogs, but it’s my thoughts they really want to read. At least from what I see in the comments and hits I receive. I do draw much of my inspiration from other bloggers, magazines, pictures, news, and interests such as fashion, art, films, books, and music. Pop culture and celebrity writing is also a popular blog topic. I try to keep things original and funny
Bloggers on Blogging -- Webby
Webby writes on Blogging
From late 1996 I've been online. In approximately ten years I've seen various occurrences come and go. In the beginning it was the web chat. I think we were just so happy just over the fact that we were connected so it was like growing up together.
Along came the instant messengers..first it was ICQ then Yahoo and MSN Messengers and so on. There were, still are, GROUPS...various interest groups..they are still alive, email will always be alive of course.
The first blog site I ever laid eyes on was LiveJournal and that was probably 1998. I was (am) always curious about everything new when it came to the internet -- tried to keep myself abreast of what was going on in many fields but that has become too overwhelming now. Anyways, I signed up for LiveJournal and that was my first blog.
I wrote for a while...like a personal diary and nothing much came out of that. At this stage of my internet experience I had not yet gotten the sense of social networking or what it was all about, really.
Next thing I came across was Blogger.com. I did the same thing there and then I paid a little more attention to it when Google bought Blogger. It was actually thanks to Blogger I came got my first Gmail account.
Still I had not gotten the hang of it. I wrote and I wrote without anybody noticing that.
I'd been signed up for, first Geocities, later Yahoo...kept my email accounts in Yahoo, kept track of what new stuff they were bringing out all the time so when I read about Y360°, of course I was curious.
I registered for a Y360 page, looked around a little...saw that I could make my own HTML-coding etc... nothing much different from the other blog sites I'd been using. For some reason (that I cannot really remember), I joined a Yahoo group called Y-360 help group, got three friends on my Y360 list and I still remember when I got the first comment!
That had never happened with any of the other blog sites I mentioned and it made all the difference. Someone was actually reading my little posts. My friends list grew immensely for a while there, even though I tried to be careful about who to add and who not.
My blog never had a theme...I never had to limit myself to any certain subject...I just kept journaling about my new life in Canada, my old life back home in Sweden, our cat, ducks, raccoons or just whatever that happened to be on my mind.
One of my newly won friends in Y360 introduced me to a graphics editor named Paint Shop Pro...a programme that had been sitting on my computer for ages but I never understood how to use. Suddenly I got the hang of that and a new world opened! I learned new things about myself, that I have a love for shapes and colours that I had no idea of before.
During these two years I've been blogging on Y360° I've sometimes wondered if this was just another thing that would fade away just like for example the early web chat. I don't know, but I don't think so.
When you consider the amount of users in all the various blog sites..MySpace, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress...you name it... I just don't think it will go away. Social networking has become too big...much bigger than I honestly think Yahoo was aware of when they started Y360°. They had a really good thing going...a place where you actually got a sense of community, but I think it needs a lot of work to live up to the others.
I sometimes have this feeling that they don't really know where they're heading...in which direction, so to speak, and I sometimes wonder whether they're going to keep up Y360° at all. I'm no expert on the subject...absolutely not...but I don't have any real sense of integration between the Yahoo services.
From late 1996 I've been online. In approximately ten years I've seen various occurrences come and go. In the beginning it was the web chat. I think we were just so happy just over the fact that we were connected so it was like growing up together.
Along came the instant messengers..first it was ICQ then Yahoo and MSN Messengers and so on. There were, still are, GROUPS...various interest groups..they are still alive, email will always be alive of course.
The first blog site I ever laid eyes on was LiveJournal and that was probably 1998. I was (am) always curious about everything new when it came to the internet -- tried to keep myself abreast of what was going on in many fields but that has become too overwhelming now. Anyways, I signed up for LiveJournal and that was my first blog.
I wrote for a while...like a personal diary and nothing much came out of that. At this stage of my internet experience I had not yet gotten the sense of social networking or what it was all about, really.
Next thing I came across was Blogger.com. I did the same thing there and then I paid a little more attention to it when Google bought Blogger. It was actually thanks to Blogger I came got my first Gmail account.
Still I had not gotten the hang of it. I wrote and I wrote without anybody noticing that.
I'd been signed up for, first Geocities, later Yahoo...kept my email accounts in Yahoo, kept track of what new stuff they were bringing out all the time so when I read about Y360°, of course I was curious.
I registered for a Y360 page, looked around a little...saw that I could make my own HTML-coding etc... nothing much different from the other blog sites I'd been using. For some reason (that I cannot really remember), I joined a Yahoo group called Y-360 help group, got three friends on my Y360 list and I still remember when I got the first comment!
That had never happened with any of the other blog sites I mentioned and it made all the difference. Someone was actually reading my little posts. My friends list grew immensely for a while there, even though I tried to be careful about who to add and who not.
My blog never had a theme...I never had to limit myself to any certain subject...I just kept journaling about my new life in Canada, my old life back home in Sweden, our cat, ducks, raccoons or just whatever that happened to be on my mind.
One of my newly won friends in Y360 introduced me to a graphics editor named Paint Shop Pro...a programme that had been sitting on my computer for ages but I never understood how to use. Suddenly I got the hang of that and a new world opened! I learned new things about myself, that I have a love for shapes and colours that I had no idea of before.
During these two years I've been blogging on Y360° I've sometimes wondered if this was just another thing that would fade away just like for example the early web chat. I don't know, but I don't think so.
When you consider the amount of users in all the various blog sites..MySpace, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress...you name it... I just don't think it will go away. Social networking has become too big...much bigger than I honestly think Yahoo was aware of when they started Y360°. They had a really good thing going...a place where you actually got a sense of community, but I think it needs a lot of work to live up to the others.
I sometimes have this feeling that they don't really know where they're heading...in which direction, so to speak, and I sometimes wonder whether they're going to keep up Y360° at all. I'm no expert on the subject...absolutely not...but I don't have any real sense of integration between the Yahoo services.
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