My Blogging Workflow: Thoughts From My Podcamp Boston 3 Presentation

Yesterday I gave a presentation entitled “Discovery- How People Find Blogs, Video and Podcasts They Love & What That Means To You” at podcamp Boston 3. The powerpoint is available here, and the audio here.
After the presentation, I started to think of different techniques I use to produce and promote my blog posts and came [...]

Podcamp 3 Boston Panel: Discovery- How People Find Blogs, Video and Podcasts They Love & What That Means To You

The Powerpoint Presentation from my panel is available here.
The audio is available here.
So, this will be the most self-referential blog post I’ve ever done. I’m here at podcamp Boston 3, giving a presentation on Discovery- how people find blogs, video and podcasts they love and what that means.
After looking through all the panels and [...]

Blogged.com Launches Top Stories Aggregator

Last week blogged.com launched their new home page, which spotlights the top stories and topics discussed in popular blogs. They’re hoping to compete with the other news aggregators like techmeme, reddit, google news, and digg. So, how is it? Well, let’s take a look:

Topics:

Business
Entertainment

Family & Home
Health & Science

Humor
Politics

Sports
Technology

As you can see, the blogged.com home page [...]

Blogged.com Live on matchmine Media Discovery Platform

Full Disclosure: I work at matchmine. Just saying.
Today matchmine announced that blogged.com has gone live on the matchmine Media Discovery Platform. It’s weird to say it as “matchmine announced”, since, well, I’m part of matchmine. Almost like when people do their “about” page in the third person, but I digress.
Here’s what that means: Blogged.com [...]

Plurk, Ping.fm and I don’t know what I want.

Plurk- A New Microblogging Service

So, the new service everyone’s talking about is Plurk. It’s kind of like twitter, as it’s a microblogging service. But, unlike twitter, you can only use plurk on the plurk website. You can’t use it via sms. There are no plurk clients available yet. Oh yeah, and when I [...]

Zemanta Plugin- Hmmmm.

This morning I installed the Zemanta plugin, which suggests photos, links, articles and tags while you’re composing a blog post. After you write 300 characters, the Zemanta plugin gives contextual suggestions from Flickr, and article suggestions from 300 media sources and the blogs of Zemanta users.
Here’s what it looks like:

Since this post is about trying [...]

Google Chatback

Google has now released a chatback badge, allowing blog visitors to chat with site owners. If you use gmail, you simply go to this page, and code is generated for you. You can choose whether to include your status message. Looks like this:

Where Do You Find The Stuff You’ll Love?

 Okay, so I’m curious. Where do you find the stuff that you love? More importantly, I’d like to know where you go to find the stuff you’re going to love?
"Huh?" you ask.
Here’s that I mean: When you’re looking for something new, where do you go to find it? If you’re looking for a new movie [...]

Want Bloggers To Cover Your Startup? 5 Simple Tips To Make It Easy

I love startups. I write about them. I work at one. As a blogger as well as a guy on the inside, I’ve come to understand how important it can be to get coverage in blogs. In covering startups, I’ve come up with a short list of tips that can make it much easier for [...]

BlogCatalog Adds SezWho’s Comment Ranking Platform

BlogCatalog, a social network for bloggers, has integrated support for SezWho’s plugin, adding comment ranking, comment filtering, and the chance to see a commenter’s activity across the web.
Here’s how it works: you get the SezWho plugin and add it to your blog. Once the plugin is activated, you’ll see the following in your blog:

So, if [...]