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What is a Blog?

June 28, 2004 | In blogging | No Comments On a Web site, a blog, a short form for weblog, is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site and its purpose. Topics sometimes include brief philosophical musings, commentary on Internet and other social issues, and links to other sites the author favors. The essential characteristics of the blog are its journal form, typically a new entry each day, and its informal style.

The author of a blog is often referred to as a blogger. People who post new journal entries to their blog may often say they blogged today, they blogged it to their site, or that they still have to blog. Internet Acronyms & Lingo

Free Online Lookups

June 28, 2004 | In web apps | No Comments

Free Online Lookups for IP location, people finder, phone number lookups and address lookup for longitude and latitude, the county, time zone, house of representative member, income, home prices and more. Lots of demographic information. May require free registration.

DNSstuff.com (DNS timing, tracert, ping, smart WHOIS lookup, NetGeo, etc.) and DNSreport.com return very informative reports about domains, no registration required.

Open Source Blog Software - NO DB

June 28, 2004 | In blogging | No Comments Listing of blog software which is OpenSource and doesn’t require an SQL backend. From ThinkingSpace of AdamShand. Found this via OpenSourceCms (cms is an acronym for content management system) which states:

This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to “try out” some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

Gmail Invite

June 24, 2004 | In web apps | No Comments

I have one gmail invite left. The first person to contact me (look at the bottom of the sidebar) with their email address can have it - consider it a “thank you” for visiting this weblog.

In related news, Pop Goes the Gmail is a program that sits between the http://gmail.com web server and your email client, converting messages from web format into POP3 format that a program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird can understand.

Trends in Blog Searching

June 24, 2004 | In blogging | No Comments

An informative article by librarian Christina K. Pikas:

Blogs are everywhere, and it is important to either be able to search them or to make sure you?re not searching them when you are looking for authoritative, accurate, and unbiased information. As blogs and RSS feeds either continue to explode across the net or start to go out of style, the search engines will adapt. Next time you are shopping for a new technology product try searching in a blog search engine to see what people are saying. Use Waypath to find related blogs. If you need to do a very precise search, use Feedster; but, if you want a little of everything, stay with the big general search engines (like the one that starts with G).

BlogPulse Added

June 24, 2004 | In blogging | No Comments

Submitted to BlogPulse.

Nanoaudiences

June 24, 2004 | In blogging | No Comments

I’m hoping for a somewhat larger audience.

From a whitepaper survey by Perseus:

When you say “blog” most people think of the most popular weblogs, which are often updated multiple times a day and which by definition have tens of thousands of daily readers. These make up the tip of a very deep iceberg: prominently visible, but not characteristic of the iceberg as a whole.

What is below the water line are the literally millions of blogs that are rarely pointed to by others, since they are only of interest to the family, friends, fellow students and co-workers of their teenage and 20-something bloggers. Think of them as blogs for nanoaudiences.

Nanoaudiences are the logical outcome of continued growth in blogs. Assume for a moment that one day 100 million people regularly read blogs and that they each read 50 other peoples? blogs. That translates into 5 billion subscriptions (50 * 100 million). Now assume on that same day there are 20 million active bloggers. That translates into 250 readers per blog (5 billion / 20 million) - far smaller audiences than any traditional one-to-many communication method. And this is just an average; in practice many blogs have no more than two dozen readers.