Blogging

Blogrolling Outage on Wednesday 9/15

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Uhh, how many of you that use Blogrolling.com are aware that they have planned an outage from 12-3 PM EDT for tomorrow 9/15?
UPDATE (9/15): This outage has been rescheduled to 9/16 from 3-6 PM EDT.
I am a big Blogrolling fan and user but it does not speak well of an organizations customer service reputation to take their service down during what is, at least in the US, probably the busiest part of the day.
Whatever their reasoning they should tell a more complete story.
NB: Expect this to impact other services that scan and utilize these links.

Page Layout and Blurb Structure

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Here is some new research on page layout and blurb impact on news pages that might be helpful to some of you:

News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? … When is multimedia appropriate? … Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?
Many blog entries are what the article describes as blurbs and there is some good stuff on catching the readers attention.
Via Dan Gillmor.

Blogging Defined

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WOLF BLITZER: So, Fafnir and Giblets, what IS a blog?
FAFNIR: Blogs are the future Wolf.
GIBLETS: Yes! They are MADE of the future! We extract the future’s pure temporal essence an squeeze it into cables an modems an T3 lines it becomes a blog!
F: A blog… of the future.
WB: How much thought goes into your “web blog” “posts”?
F: Oh we do not think at all when we post! That would defeat the entire purpose!
G: Blogs must be spontaneous intant reactions to the lightning events of the everyday! Giblets fires up a random news article, pounds his head against the keyboard several times, an hits the “publish” button for the purest of pure blog posts!
F: Otherwise you are not truly flowin in the electric consciousness Wolf.


Read the rest at Fafblog!

For Classical Music Lovers and Other Interested Parties

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Yesterday Arts Journal launched a 10 day blog called Critical Conversation:

THE QUESTION BEFORE US

If the history of music is the recorded conversation of ideas, then where do we find ourselves in that conversation at the start of the 21st Century?
The conversationalists are a dozen of the “top classical music critics in America” (YMMV) and based on the early posts the discussion might be pretty interesting.
Of note, also, is the description of this blog as a 10 day blog. A short finite lifetime to have a snapshot discussion of a particular idea. And you can join in via comments.
Another aspect is that while the blog may build interest in and traffic to Arts Journal with this short life the blog will not have any focus on building long term traffic and relationships to itself.
All in all a pretty nifty idea for.