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MUG Meeting Topics:
Introduction to Blogging
Ross Karchner of the Hershey Apple Core contributed his outline from a recent user group presentation on blogging. Now that .Mac users can use their accounts to create their very own blog with iBlog, comparing and contrasting that with the many other options available can make for a timely and informative meeting. Here's Ross's outline, along with some reference links.
Crazy, Made up Language
Blog, Weblog, Blogger
- What makes this stuff cool: With the same skills that you have learned to USE the web, you can now be a PUBLISHER
- The elements:
- Organized by time, reverse chronological order
- Calendar, Timestamps
- Permalinks
- Comments
- Trackback: Two way links
- Blogroll, Blogosphere, Moblogging
- Blog Glue: RSS, "Blogger API", Weblogs.com
Blogger.com
- Accessed at http://www.blogger.com
- Publish to FTP or blogspot.com
- Demo page: http://theross.blogspot.com/
Free, WAS for-pay "Blogger Pro" version
- RSS Feeds coming soon
- Supports Blogger API... because... they created it.
- Now owned by Google.
Radio Userland
- Accessed as a web site running on your computer
- Publish to http://radio.weblogs.com or FTP
- Demo: Launch Radio
- It's a news aggregator as well.
- Demo posting directly from news aggregator
- demo page: http://radio.weblogs.com/0129800/
- Creates RSS Feeds
- $35 for a year of hosting and updates. The software still works when the year expires.
- 30 Day trial
- Supports blogger API on both sides- you can post to radio, and radio can post to Blogger API servers, blogger.com or movabletype for example
Movable Type
- Ross likes Movable Type.
- You need to install it as CGI scripts on your server
- Very Flexible, cool plugins, Set up is kind of complicated though.
- demo http://www.karchner.net/movabletype/mt.cgi
- MovableType is free for non-commercial use
Typepad: Hosted Movable Type, sort of
- Moblog features
- Template builder
- Photo Albums
- Demo photo blog via email
- Typepad has several billing levels, 30 day trial.
iBlog:
- Blog to .mac (also any Webdav, FTP, or appleshare location)
- Integrates with iLife apps
- Generates RSS
- no API support
NetNewsWire Pro
- Darn cool News Aggregator
- Can post to any Blogger API site.
Cool Tools:
- All Consuming: manage a reading list, find out what books people are blogging about. http://allconsuming.net
- Technorati: Who's linking to you, what are people talking about
- Daypop: What's everyone linking to today?
- GeoURL: Who is nearby
- Localfeeds: My baby GeoURL + RSS
Ross also included some information that you can listen to on blogging:
Former NPR personality Chris Lydon has been doing some really great audio interviews with the personalities at the center of all this blog stuff, and they explain the interest and excitement at the center of it all better than I could (and of course, posting them on his blog).
David Sifry (Technorati):
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/24#a203
Dave Winer (Scripting.com, Radio Userland)
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/09#a166
Doc Searls (doc.weblogs.com):
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/21#a197
Glenn Reynolds (The Instapundit)
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/31#a213
Real Live Preacher (http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/ )
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/08/13#a238
Slugger O'Toole ( http://sluggerotoole.com/ )
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/08/01#a222
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