life | Kris Smith has read these articles about "life" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "life" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpWhat Makes for a Good Blog- August 19, 2008 My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day or four. As I think about the blogs I've returned to over the years and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here's what I think helps make for a good blog. Good.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/43Folders/~3/368994851/good-blogs Escape to Detroit- August 16, 2008 guest post by John Law My friend Julia & I just bought a vacation home in Detroit. It's a small but comfortable three-bedroom house in good condition that sits on a shorefront plot of land along the banks of an actual river. The location is serene, and the price was right the whole thing cost less than a new Cadillac Escalade. A lot less, actually. But that was only part of the appeal. Just as important to us was the idea that Detroit is poised to become a laboratory for the latest...http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~r/laughingsquid/~3/366098103/ Building an Audience-Thrilling Videoblog- August 13, 2008 There are few people in Social Media who know how to connect with their audience the way Robert Scoble does. If you are interested in building a following of loyal fans DON'T MISS ROBERT SCOBLE in Vegas at The New Media Expo . Online video content creators please join us in Las Vegas August 14-16, 2008.Building an Audience-Thrilling VideoblogTrack 4: Audio and Video Creation: "How To" Techniques for Making Compelling ContentInstructor: Robert Scoble of FastCompanyTVDescription: You have a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1TimStreet/~3/363244165/building-audience-thrilling-videobl... End of the Blog- August 3, 2008 Shared by internetcases Wish we could talk him out of it. I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanation. There are two reasons.1. The Inability or Refusal to Accept the Blog for What it is: A Personal BlogI have been a full-time copyright lawyer for 26 years. My late mother, aleha ha-shalom, told me repeatedly that I had a religious obligation to learn every day, and I have honored her memory by.http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/08/end-of-blog.html The Continuing Death of Twitter- August 2, 2008 So I haven't a created an original tweet over on Twitter - one that wasn't either housekeeping or a reply to someone else - in a month. That mode of interaction exists entirely on my Friend Feed account now. Any tweets that do happen are exhortations to get followers to move over to FriendFeed with me, or crossposted FF comments. I'm happy with that. For a month of Steve Gillmor has been telling me that I was philosophically inconsistent for still having any Twitter in my life. He thinks I...http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2008/08/02/the-continuing-death-of-twitter/ |