Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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:
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
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 [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Nathan
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 [...]
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