| What are blogs or weblog? | | Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:05:57 AM by Alex Molin | 
A weblog is a web-based publication consisting of articles, diaries, campaigns etc,
The publications are done by posting them and appear in reverse chronological order.
One can update it manually or automatically
The visitors can usually leave public comments, which can lead to a community of readers centered around the blog;
The power of weblogs is that they allow millions of people to easily publish their ideas, and millions more to comment on them. Blogs are a fluid, dynamic medium, more akin to a 'conversation' than to a library which is how the Web has often been described in the past. With an increasing number of people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs, the way we use the Web is shifting in a fundamental way. Instead of being passive consumers of information, more and more Internet users are becoming active participants. Weblogs let everyone have a voice.
All Free Things - A searchable directory of free stuff and free resources including games, screensavers, MP3's, clipart, webmaster tools, and more.
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- one-stop shop | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:01:11 PM by Blog57 Team |
Young media company hopes to make blogs more attractive by gathering an elite group of widely read bloggers
If a single thought-provoking weblog can find a large audience, might 70 or more linked together start a revolution? That's what Pajamas Media hopes to find out. Backed by $3.5 million in venture capital, the nascent media company has gathered some of the most highly regarded bloggers on the Internet at one site (osm.org), hoping, as co-founder Roger Simon puts it, "to be the place for breaking Internet opinion." |
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| | | What is a Multi-Blog? | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:59:52 PM by Blog 57 team | 
If one runs a single blog, technically they are Bloggers; however if one creates, maintains, and runs 2, 10, 50, 100 or more blogs, they are a multi-blogger.
There are a number of reasons for including multiple blogs on a single page. Perhaps you'd like to have two or three users posting at once, but don't want the posts combined in a single blog column. Or maybe you'd like to post notes and comments in your sidebar that don't fit in with the rest of the content of your blog. It's even possible (depending on your server's capabilities) to grab blog content from another server and paste it seamlessly into your existing code.... | |
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| | | Recommended Blog Pinging Services | | Posted Monday, January 02, 2006 3:18:47 PM by Alex Molin | | 
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Pingomatic
- Pings several popular services and specialized services. Create a bookmark
for each ping URL.
King Ping- Pings multiple
services - 18 in all. Easy to check and uncheck boxes. And you can also
create a bookmark with your settings.
Blogflux Pinger
- Pings 32 services, including several specialized services and language
specific services too.
Pingoat - Pings a huge
collection of 64 blogging services, including special services and non
English tracking services. You can easily select all services by selecting
the category.
PingMyBlog -
is a simple service which pings selected 8 popular blog tracking services
Feedshark
- Although many services are on one page, you have to individually click
submit for each service.
Blogomatic
- Just enter the RSS URL and it submits to all the 12 listed services.
You do not need to select each service.
BlogBlip
- Just enter the blog URL and it will submit to 15 popular blog tracking
services.
Ping.ws - pings 16
popular services. 3 are ticked, rest you have to select.
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| | | W.bloggar - interface between you and your blogs | | Posted Sunday, December 18, 2005 11:19:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | 
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The w.bloggar
is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or
more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several
features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer.Because
w.bloggar runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without
being connected to the Internet. Posts can be saved locally; and anytime
the user wants to publish a new text, one click on the w.bloggar icon in
the system tray brings up the editor, and one more click will post it to
the weblog.Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible
with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to
have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different
sites, using different publishing systems.
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| | | PHP based blog software | | Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:47:10 PM by Blog57 Team |
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bBlog is a powerful,
elegant personal publishing system written in PHP and released as free,
Open Source software under the GPL. It is a flexible but simple way to
blog that works for blogging beginners, and can grow into a more advanced
user's needs. The most interesting feature is the smarty templating engine
for templates, plug-ins, and as much as possible other parts of bBlog.
It means easily editable templates.
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b2 is probably the
most popular php based blogging program. It supports all the standard blog
features, such as comments, archives, and an API to allow the desktop blog
updating application w.bloggar to connect and update your blog.
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TEXTPATTERN - A
free, flexible, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of
websites, even weblogs. The problem it solves is that on the personal computer
there is no problem to manage text and images but it is hard to make it
available when published on the web. Textpattern is a web application designed
to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify
the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
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Drupal is an open-source
platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering
a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing
workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities
using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.If
you're looking for a multi-user, or community based weblog application,
this might be it. If you just want a simple weblog for yourself, pick something
a bit simpler like textpattern or b2.
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Nucleus allows you to
easily maintain your own weblog on your own server. It has an impressive
feature list.
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| | | Some insights about blog content | | Posted Monday, December 12, 2005 1:56:53 AM by Alex Molin |
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What kind of content should you post to your blog?
First, keep in mind that your readers came to read something a little
unique and worthwhile.
There is nothing like original material - it tends to get more attention
than links to news or other blogs.
Long articles are ignored !!! get to the point quickly.
Use simple language and remember - a good title will have your post
read, a bad one will have it ignored.
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| | | Some insights about posting | | Posted Sunday, December 11, 2005 1:38:14 AM by Alex Molin |
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Keep your postings topical.
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Dedicate one post to one idea
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Post in advance - this gives search engines a chance to find your page
before the day when everyone is searching for info on it.
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| | | Blog design | | Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 8:43:05 AM by Blog 57 Team |
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A good Blog design is really important if you want your blog to create
a good first impression. With millions of other blogs and sites out there
its worth some effort to make yours stand out.
Here are some things you can do to make the most of the existing tools,
and to make your blog easy to navigate and an aesthetic pleasure to read:
Although the tips here are basics, it is easy for many bloggers to
forget or ignore them:
Make your blog easy-to-read
Use the right font size
Choose pleasant colors.
Your blog’s layout should be organized and convenient for the eye.
Make sure your blog works cross-browser and uses standards-compliant
code
Provide consistent navigation
Provide Permalinks for your posts.
Make it easy-to-find email address or contact form
Allow search facility
Provide RSS/XML feed
Make sure your blog is Fast loading
Originality is very important.
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| | | Blogs advertisement | | Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:35:31 AM by Blog 57 team |
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An increasing number of bloggers are running advertisements on their
blogs. Programs like Blog
Ads or Market
Banker, fastclick.com
help find advertisers.
Other bloggers (often the bigger ones) find their own advertising or
use a combination of their own and other programs.
Google Adsense Program
is an advertising tool in which ads run depending upon the content of the
page. Google pays people who run their ads per click on the ads. Payments
vary on the type of ad. (Check also overview
of Adsense ).
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| | | Google - blog search | | Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:43:18 AM by Blog 57 team |
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Google finally released its blog search tool. The search can be in
many different languages not just English. The results include every blog
that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom) posted since the tool was
in use (around June 2005)
It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service.
There are a few different ways you can get to Blog Search (they are
all the same):
blogsearch.google.com
(Google-style interface)
search.blogger.com
(Blogger-style interface)
The Blogger Dashboard
The Navbar on any Blog*Spot blog (you have 2 options: one - to search
the current blog your are viewing, the other is to search or all blogs).
If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically
pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com),
Google should be able to find and list it.
Google will also provide a form that you can use to manually add your
blog to our index, in case it was not picked up automatically.
Blog Search will also respect robots.txt files and NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
meta tags,
At the bottom of each page of search results you can find several links,
offering the top 10 or 100 results as either Atom or RSS feeds. Just grab
the links from here and subscribe to them in the news aggregator of your
choice and you will get updates whenever new posts are made that match
your query.
Just like in the regular Google Search, you can use the SafeSearch
to filter out adult sites.
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| | | The Blogosphere | | Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 5:07:28 AM by Blog 57 team |
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Many weblogs are densely interconnected;
Bloggers read others blogs, link to them, reference them in their own
writing, and post comments on each others blogs.
Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture
which is called the Blogosphere.
Special search engine where create to allow search blogs in the Blogosphere:
daypop , blogdex
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| | | BLOGS For the Love | | Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:42:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | You may speak your mind on any topic. Because of the large number of calls, we cannot publish all comments. We also may edit some comments for length and clarity. Wants a community center About the southwest corner of Azalea Road and Highway 90, which is full of empty real estate: Why doesn't someone get behind a small community center in one of these buildings? It would help commerce, and it would be useful for the neighborhood. Pay for your own sidewalks! It's amazing to me that the wealthy of Spring Hill are being given grant money to build sidewalks, when we have children in this community who don't have the right food, and our schools are suffering. This is an outrage. Those rich people up in Spring Hill can pay for their own sidewalks if they need them.... | |
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| | | Weather News & Blogs | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:42:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | A massive high pressure area that has been over most of the West Coast for most of the past month is beginning to break down, signifying a return of Pacific storms and an end to the record warmth in Southern California. Monday's high in downtown Los Angeles was 89°, while the high of 85° at the Oceanside Airport shattered the old record of 76°. Today, an influx of cool ocean air will result in a high of 77° in L.A. The cooling trend will continue in the upcoming days: City Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. .... | |
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| | | The Reliable Source | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:22:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forget the country club rep: Polo is a very rough game. And now for the organizers of the three-year-old Courage Cup charity match, the sod-flinging has moved off the Virginia fields and onto the blogs. In 2005, founder Greg Ball-- a former Air Force officer who ran the first two events in '04 and '05 -- left D.C. to enter politics in his native New York state, handing off the '06 event to friend Keri Ann Meslar and another socially connected Washingtonian, Andrea Rodgers. After winning a state assembly seat last fall, the 29-year-old Ball wanted back in for this June's match. .... | |
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| | | Did Liberals Cause 9/11? | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:42:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative critic and Hoover Institute fellow, has a new book out, and it's generating plenty of its own publicity. In "The Enemy at Home," D'Souza identifies more than 100 people and organizations as part of a "domestic insurgency" that is "working in tandem with [Osama] bin Laden to defeat Bush." But his most controversial assertion is that "the cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11." According to his Web site, D'Souza contends that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways. They fostered "a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies especially traditional and religious ones and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world." In his book, D'Souza explains his thesis further: "I am saying that the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world." But the "cultural left," or at least liberal bloggers, are not buying it and have taken to their keyboards to blog their disgust.... | |
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| | | Tracking Who's Saying What About Whom | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:22:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Moira Curran starts her day at the office by skimming several dozen blogs, occasionally firing off instant messages to her co-workers with links to juicy bits of celebrity gossip. Then she listens to podcasters chatting about the latest episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" or "Lost." In the afternoon, she keeps an eye on soap operas on the television set that hangs above her desk. .... | |
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| | | Check out your neighbors' blogs | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 1:42:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Want to learn more about the unexpected budget shortfall in Stratford? Or the again-defeated referendum at the Black Horse Pike Regional School District? Or maybe you've seen all those yellow ribbons in Evesham? Those are just three of the topics posted by the Courier-Post Community Bloggers in the past 24 hours. The Community Blogger program is designed to give community members a platform to write about issues impacting them and you, their neighbors. In the past two week, seven new community bloggers have been added to help cover events in Mount Holly, Stratford, Cinnaminson, Gloucester Township, Camden, Winslow and Brooklawn. With these seven, we have about 30 individuals volunteering their time to help keep ensure no news slips through the cracks.... | |
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| | | Bloggers don't pull punches | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:22:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Jay Lassiter became a blogger after rupturing his Achilles tendon -- and witnessing a high school protest about genocide in the Sudan. "I had a lot of time on my hands, and when I saw what the students were doing, I went right home and wrote about it," says the 34-year-old Cherry Hill resident, whose Lassiter Space is one of South Jersey's most substantive, savvy and sassy blogs, or weblogs. Like his erudite conservative counterpart Lou Antosh (Cinnaman), of Cinnaminson, and Moorestown's eclectic family man/sports fan Chris Pesotski (Another Delco Guy in South Jersey), Lassiter's online publication features an engaging, idiosyncratic mix of personal commentary, plentiful links and pungent wit. The three blogs are among upward of 65 million worldwide tracked by Technorati Inc., an authority on this freewheeling and frenetic medium -- as well as the newer iterations (focusing on video, podcasting and photo-sharing) of what the California firm collectively calls "citizen media." "About 95 percent of blogs are really personal journals," says Derek Gordon, Technorati's vice president of marketing, adding that technical and gossip-oriented blogs are the most popular on the Web.... | |
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| | | RSS For Checking Blogs Still Hasn't Caught On | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:42:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | HitWise researcher LeeAnn Prescott said a comparison of traffic to online newsreaders and the Web's most popular blogs indicates that only early adopters are using the newsreaders. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Jan 19, 2007 04:58 PM The typical U.S. Internet user has yet to adopt Web-based newsreaders for checking blogs, a Web metrics firm said Friday. While acknowledging that her findings are not conclusive, HitWise researcher LeeAnn Prescott said a comparison of traffic to online newsreaders and the Web's most popular blogs indicates that only early adopters -- primarily businesspeople and the technology savvy " are using the newsreaders. "The use of RSS to view blogs hasn't caught on in the mainstream," Prescott said.... | |
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| | | Best Australian Hotels.com Holds Best Blogs of Australia Contest | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:45:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | (OPENPRESS) January 13, 2007 -- This year, Best Hotels of Australia.com will be holding a contest that will give a few good bloggers an opportunity to gain a larger audience. Best Australian Hotels.com is an online travel portal which gives travellers the convenience they deserve from providing comprehensive information on flight, to the travel destination, up to their hotel reservation. This Australian travel portal facilitates the needs of every travellers through a number of Australian travel sources ensuring they dont have to experience the hassle of hunting for the right sources out of their comfort zone and prefer to keep things simpler. Starting January 12 to February 11, 2007, Best Australian Hotels.com will be selecting the best Australian blogs from the nominations given by the registrants.... | |
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| | | Blogs fork out eatery tidbits | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:22:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK - Ben Leventhal and Lockhart Steele are a pair of bloggers fighting a guerrilla war against the city's publicists. Nearly every day, the two provide restaurant information on their popular Web site, Eater.com., posting tidbits that publicists aren't ready to release and traditional journalists haven't managed to print. .... | |
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