Entries tagged with “blogging” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Why do I show my work on Flickr? There are a number of reasons, but they boil down to 1,496,603. Let me explain my affair with Flickr. When I started Photoblog 2.0 in May 2005, I made the decision to serve my photos out of Flickr. This means that the several thousand photos in my blog are sitting on Flickr's...

The California Democratic Party held its annual convention in San Diego April 27-29, and I was there blogging, along with hundreds of other traditional and web-based reporters. Here are some observations. touch. This shot is from a rally of Barack Obama supporters just before Obama went into the main hall to address the 2,000-plus attendees. Notice the hand wrapped around...

Via Tim O'Reilly's blog I come across San Francisco Chronicle publisher Phil Bronstein, predicting layoffs and saying the news business "is broken, and no one knows how to fix it... And if any other paper says they do, they're lying." Meanwhile, according to a Zogby Poll I find in the Financial Times, "Newspaper editors are overwhelmingly optimistic about their businesses,...

It surprised me to learn it, but one of my most-cited posts has been 10 Journalism Tips For Bloggers, Podcasters & Other E-Writers. It turns out there's a lot of interest in using the web not just for sounding off, but for practicing real journalism. And as in so many areas--music, video, politics, etc--the amateurs are crashing the gates that...

Recently I stumbled across an interesting survey of music blog readers (roughly 700 respondents and about 30 questions); check it out at Music Blogs Reader Survey. Among the findings there were stats you might expect like that 73% of respondents were male, and most of the readers were either in arts and entertainment, in technology (or both), and/or are students....

One of my favorite blogs is Chris Randall's Analog Industries, where topics range from "Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday" to "Four Measures of Fury." Today, though, I read an entry that provoked me to sign up and post a reply. Chris had blogged about getting great coverage for his company's effect plug-ins in Future's Computer Music magazine. Readers then opined about...

This is awesome. The perennial question is "what is the videoblogging business model?"

Well here's one of them: build an audience of over 100,000 viewers then sell one million ad impressions... on ebay.

I've snapshotted the ebay link here ; the ebay link will go away after a while.

Related link: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php Back when I worked at a big L.A. recording studio, I fell into a strange pattern where I’d get off my 12-hour shift, drive home, and then read audio magazines before falling asleep. (I also got a number of parking tickets, because I often couldn’t remember what day of the week it was, running me afoul of...

Blogs, podcast & e-newsletters make it easy for anyone to be a journalist. Here are some tips on how to do it well.

Weblogs, Inc. just launched PSP Fanboy and yours truly is blogging for the new site.

Interface guru Jakob Nielsen as published his Top 10 worst weblog design mistakes. "The web is not high school," says Nielsen, so drop the cliquishness.

Imagine podcasting live inside a super-powered robot suit while trigger-happy tourists shoot at you. You’d probably be on this amazing site.

Video Blogs from around the world...Google style.

I recently started seeing blogmaps showing up on people's blogs, and immediately I liked this concept. It's fun being able to see the location of the bloggers around you.

Dave Winer presented the opening keynote in a style he called bloglike, which means he provided a title and description of the talk, and let the rest of the keynote be driven by "comments" and "trackbacks" from him and the crowd.

Gnomedex 5.0 kicks off in Seattle this morning (June 24) at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The topics being blogged about include Blogging (self-referential and otherwise), RSS, Podcasting, etc.

Perhaps a person is not truly a great writer if he understands the meaning of everything he writes. Perhaps one is not a truly great artist if he carefully constructed each and every one of his artistic ideas in his own mind. When something comes from the Human Mind, it can only be as great as a single Human Mind. Great Art needs to be bigger than that.

A few days ago I posted a blog called "Are Blogs the New Journalism?" which garnered some lengthy rebuttals both here and on my blog. I learned something from that conversation and some other reading and started thinking about it in terms of open source.

The way TIME magazine saw it in December, 2004 was the start of a "golden age" of blogging -- the rapid-fire web publishing scheme where anyone can publish their rants, photos or detailed reporting on the web in a matter of seconds. While blogging has been around for four or five years, the combination of the hotly contested election and the growth in popularity of blogging tools meant that blogging had hit critical mass.

David Sifry's presentation at ETech showed how Technorati has its finger on the pulse of the blogosphere and the impressive data that Technorati can pull from its vast database.