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Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (VOICES)
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Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (VOICES) |
Author: Biz Stone
Published: 2002-09-21 |
List price: $29.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 simple usage
Stone takes us on a tour of what is available for you to start and run your own blog website. A lot of it is surprisingly easy to master. Many content management packages have been written specifically for blogging, and come free or cheap.
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br /He also offers suggestions about financing your site with ads; perhaps using Google. Plus ways to publicise your content. Notably by using RSS so that others coming to your site can readily subscribe. He does not go into the full details of RSS. You need a more technical text for that. But the example RSS file given here is simple enough to convey the essence of what is involved.
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br /Unfortunately, he does not discuss blog spam. Where a spammer or a bot might write spam articles on your site. On some large blog sites, this has emerged as a problem, as spammers try to manipulate search engines to up the rankings of the spam sites.
Showing its age but still very relevant.
Even though this book is showing it's age, like in the prices for some of the software, it is still a very good primer for getting to know Blogging. It is complete with basic HTML advise and good reviews on software. It also has good advice on layout and making a Blog look good and readable.
 Blogging Incomplete
The range of products reviewed is impressive; however, the information on each of the products is incomplete. For example, Xanga is mentioned to have a comfy community, but no where is it mentioned that with Xanga it is impossible to get outside of their community. And the Xanga community consists of hundreds of thousands of tweens who want to know whether or not Bobby really ate a worm. Not for serious bloggers. It seems designed for and catering to Junior High School aged kids.
 ok-ish but do you really need this book?
This book is neither bad or great.
br /If you are new to blogging mess around, see how it works with a free blogger. If you need more you can move over to the likes of MovableType or wordpress. If you use blogger, Elizabeth Castro has a new book about a specific solution "publishing a blog with Blogger" which goes into more actual detail about getting blogger to work for you. It is better. Mess around and read lots of other blogs. This book is really worth a miss.
A blogging overview
For beginners, a good overview of the blogging phenomenon and a primer for what you need to get one going. The book is an easy read and should get you up and running before you're done.
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br /The author is excited about blogs and brings it to a head with practical steps. It does concentrate on the Blogger family of software, but does mention some of the other options, plus quick overviews on HTML and CSS.
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br /Get learning on blogs. With this book and the web on your screen, you'll find ideas on on how to integrate this phenomenon into your business marketing strategy.
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