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Today’s bookmark is this simple blog called Best of Wikipedia. It does what it advertises. BOW is:
A twice-daily updated collection of some of the best reading on Wikipedia.
Happy browsing.
The thing about blogging is that there are no rules. Of course, there are some things you must respect like having a good orthography and responding to your readers comments etc. but there are no rules about whether you should or not be objective or subjective; like a journalist. There are no rules about whether your blog should be with two-columns, three, four or completely black and if you want to write two sentences articles; you’re free.
You are your own publisher and you can say whatever you want. Your blog could create a motion expressing the protest of the people. Yes. Yes, really. You can write stuff like “I fuck you all, dickheads”, in another media, you couldn’t. You’d be fired the very next day. Your blog is your responsibility and you do whatever you want with it.
Still, I believe there are different types of bloggers.
I will take two articles. The first is ‘20 types of blog posts’ by the famous ProBlogger blog.
I discovered Posterous the day it was featured on TechCrunch France. When ? Last June 28th (2008). It’s been a long time. I never used it, I thought it was useless; another service like many others so I wasn’t interested. I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Posterous is the key element of your blogging cycle. Here:
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The dotted arrows means that it isn’t obligatory to stream from this to that.
Twitter keeps track of all your web activity into one, clear, straightforward place. It’s fast, mobile and in real-time.
WordPress, like any other weblog service is complex and not fast. It’s the professional place where you post your blog’s articles. Your blog is a blog about cars, sports, tech, anything, but it’s not personal. When you post, your Twitter account is notified and tweets about your article.
Posterous is your personal stream. It’s faster and easier than WordPress yet richer than Twitter. It’s your web home. Each of your WordPress post could go on Posterous as it is your stream. If you have other social networks such as Flickr or Facebook, it can be streamed to Posterous. It also works in the opposite way. Posterous can autopost to Twitter, Facebook etc.
I forgot to explain Posterous’ blogging system. Just post whatever you want (music, video, text, photo) to post@posterous.com and it will be published.
From now on, my web life will follow the image above. My Posterous is ulysse.posterous.com
Ah… The iTablet.
Gizmodo, one of the most famous gadget/gizmo blog in the world has Intel. Read the story.
Despite the rumors, I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it’s [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.”
I was driving, and swerved a little bit, even though both hands were on the wheel. Someone honked at me.
“What was that?”
They repeated themselves.
I switched on Bluetooth and pulled over to the side of the road to hear the story. You see, earlier in the day I’d given my phone number out to someone who sent me a cryptic email wanting to talk Apple. This must have been them. (Later on I verified to a high level of certainty that they were in the position to have access to the information and after talking to them for over an hour, I believe them to the same level of certainty.)
“The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, is going to have a 10 inch screen, and when I saw it looked just like a giant iPhone, with a black back— although that design could change at any time” they said, “with the same black resin back, and the familiar home button.” That’s obvious.
“But it will come in two editions, one with a webcam and one for educational use.”
Educational use?
They continued to explain the device as something that would sit between an iPod/iPhone and a MacBook, and would cost $700 to $900—”More than twice as much as a netbook,” he said.
To make up for that cost and make the device more than just a big iPod there was, this person claimed, there was talk of making the device act as a secondary screen/touchpad for iMacs and MacBooks, much like a few of the USB screens that have come out in recent months from Chinese companies. Very interesting.
They went on to say that although the project has been going on under various names between four and six years, the first prototype was built around the end of 2008. Adding, “The time to market from first prototype is generally 6-9 months.” That would place the device’s release date in this holiday season. They then said, “There was a question of what OS the device would run, too.” (Other people I’ve talked to have implied this remains a huge secret.)
My call dropped on some windy road off Skyline Drive. Fucking AT&T.
Later, I asked, was there a code name for the project?
“Yes…[redacted].”
I thought about it for a second, googled the term, and it all made sense.
“Don’t publish that name, please,” they requested.
Don’t worry, I won’t.
I believe what Brian says. What [redacted] says, too. The codename? I guess the codename won’t be something like Revolution, Domination or some great word, but something trickier… I don’t know. If it all made sense when he googled it, it means it’s not something you realize when you hear it, on the first time. Ah. I love this kind of riddles.
If you feel you can directly get a 6 figure check while running your blogging site, you are sadly mistaken, it takes real efforts to build a site and make it loved by people. if you are thinking just the money online aspect it is going to fetch you no good in future, instead of asking yourself questions like how fastest money would pour in or how I can become famous in short time you should be asking yourself questions like how am I going to get the site that people will love, what type of topics people would love to read, how can I create a site which is user friendly and is suitable for people of all age groups to log in and surf, etc. if you create yourself and earn yourself a niche of a good blogger you can attract much attention then you can really think of.
This is a paragraph of a brilliant piece written by Chris about blogging and making money. That’s as funny as it’s weird because I said quite the same things in the About page.
But think a minute before reading it. It’s called “want great success” not “want a lot of money”.
