Too often, blogging is characterized as a chance to sit down at the computer and yammer away to our heart's content, without much editing, planning, or, umm, thinking. And then we expect the world to somehow discover and embrace our pearls of wisdom.
Hey, everybody: This is way off topic, but here goes anyway:
Warning to anybody who's the owner/proprietor of any blog(s) that're powered by the server soapblox:
Soapblox has been having some serious problems--they've been hacked into. So, anybody who's the owner/proprietor of a blog or blogs that're powered by this particular server just might want to back up all their data, and consider moving their blog(s) to a safer, more secure server.
The Boston Globe just launched another blog...it's called
Flipside and it's supposed to chronicle Boston's nightlife, and fun events happening around town.
I'm one of four Globe writers who'll be posting to Flipside regularly, so feel free to send me stuff that you think is blog-worthy: event listings...party photos....nightclub gossip....story ideas....you can suggest people we should interview...places we should write about...video clips...and anything else you can think of.
My e-mail address is [email protected] -- drop me a line anytime. There's also a place on the Flipside blog where you can submit feedback, and you can find individual e-mail addresses for my fellow Flipside bloggers there, too.
Right now I am listening to WBUR's broadcast of the president's news conference concerning North Korea and Iraq.
I try to listen objectively to his addresses to the nation but it is hard. I am always left with the image of a comedian who is just not very good but insists on trying to keep the audience's attention. I don't know that this is better than the typical image I have of him, which is as the teenage son who tries really hard to do adult things but ultimately needs his dad, usually in the form of Mike Brady, to bail him out.
Apparently we are working really hard in Iraq and while the news broadcasts are terrible, we have to stay the course. As to North Korea, while we are not pleased with what they have done, [nuclear testing] we will work with them diplomatically to resolve the issue.
I currently host the The Boston Weblogger Meetup Group. I was originally a member and took over after the group had been hanging out there for sometime with no one seeking to take over payments that Meetup.com requires. (Admittedly $19.00 per month can be a bit much. It used to be free but no more...)
At any rate, I joined the Boston Organizer Meetup and someone emailed from that group about how to get started in blogging. Below is her email to me and my admittedly lengthy response to her. I was wondering if anyone elose had any thoughts about the questions she poses...
Her Email:
Hi,
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