Ideas for Online Publications: Lessons From Blogs, Other Signposts

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Academics give lessons on bl0gs

Academics give lessons on bl0gs 04/07/2005 05:15 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Wed Apr 6, 05:15 pm GMT

how URLs and ideas propagate through
bl0gs,

how URLs and ideas propagate through
bl0gs, 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Blog Epidemic Analyzer .. appositi tool .. this

www-idl.hpl.hp.com/blogstuff/index.html
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Four Ideas for Getting Great
Little-Known Blogs Discovered

Four Ideas for Getting Great
Little-Known Blogs Discovered 06/17/2005 03:28 PM

Most bloggers are part of the Long Tail, the 600-foot long gap in the chart above that collectively gets 80% of the roughly 700,000 hours of total blogosphere readership each day, but which individually get miniscule attention. What if you have aspirations for your blog to be discovered, to become one of the 2000 A- and B-list blogs on the other side of that gap that each get at least 30 hours of reader attention each day? How do you get your blog 'discovered', when the only established ways are to grab the attention of either an A-lister or two, or Google, and even if you can do that the momentary audience you draw is likely to quickly dissipate again? The predicament most bloggers face is much like that of athletes, artists, models, actors, writers and those striving to be discovered in professions where a handful are rich and famous almost beyond comprehension, while the huge majority live on the edge of invisibility (according to the Canadian tax authorities, average income for people declaring themselves to be in these professions was about $12,000 last year). The way people in these professions usually get discovered is to use agents. But in a non-profit profession like blogging, where there are no millionaire superstars, there are no agents -- so we have to help ourselves out here. Author and writing adviser Nicholas Sparks suggests these steps to be discovered by a literary agent: (1) write a great book, (2) research to find appropriate, good agents, and (3) write a good one-page Query Letter, consisting of: A description of previous writing experience A quick summation of the story Other books that are similar to yours, and why yours is better The possible market for the book A reason why you want to work with this particular representative A sentence explaining that the book is complete, with a request to have it read The writing service Preditors and Editors (no great fan of using agents) recommends a Query Letter when you're writing directly to a publisher's editor, though with the addition of a 'hook' (a couple of sentences to grab the reader's attention). Once you've got their interest, the publisher will often provide you with a template for a Proposal, a 5-20 page document usually comprising: Overview and principal ideas Other similar books, and what distinguishes and differentiates yours The possible audience(s) for the book, and selling points for each audience Table of contents, book length and suggested price (often with a synopsis of each chapter and/or a sample chapter) Author credentials and experience, and what the author will do to promote the book Who will provide the introduction and endorsements for the book The status of the book Much of what you're providing to the agent or publisher will be repeated on the book-jacket, which is what the publisher uses to get your book 'discovered' inside the bookstores. The world of book-buying is changing, though, with more and more readers browsing for books online, where the book-jacket is, at best, harder to read. While Amazon's 'search inside' capability does let you browse the book-jacket, the table of contents, the index and usually the introduction or first chapter, it also provides this additional information for browsers: Reader and editorial reviews Affinity information: Other books bought by people who bought the book, or previewed online by people who previewed this book, and reader lists that include this book Books deemed by Amazon's algorithms to be 'similar' How could all of this be applied to blogs? There are a lot of blog directories out there, and I've signed up for most of them, but none of them is prominent enough to deliver any significant volume of readership to an undiscovered blog. Here's what I think we need instead: Blog-Jackets: Something analogous to book-jackets, that would contain the kind of information readers want to know when they first stumble upon a new blog: A short bio of the author(s), with your credentials and background, and perhaps a 'why you blog' paragraph A quick overview of your blog content, how much/how long you've written, and perhaps a list of your best articles or table of contents What makes your blog unique, different, and valuable to readers Who your intended audience is (almost no blogs include this information today) Endorsements from readers, and/or Technorati, Bloglines or SiteMeter rankings and data Where should this information be kept to attract the attention of readers? First, I think blog software should provide this blog-jacket functionality, on a separate 'About This Blog page' that can be accessed from any other blog page, just as your blog 'home' page is. This would allow blog directories to be more complete and to be compiled automatically, without the authors having to fill in a separate form for each directory. It could also serve to introduce your blog to new readers, both passively when they first happen upon it, and actively in your other promotion efforts, such as when you e-mail someone 'cold' with a request that they look at your blog or an article in it. I would certainly use a standardized blog-jacket to orient myself to a new blog, if it were available. An Amazon Blog-Catalogue: No slight intended to existing blog directories, but I think we need to get Amazon, the cataloguers of all things written, to add blogs to their listings. Why should they do so? Because blogs have become a major source of book reviews and book referrals, publicists for what Amazon sells. Because it would complement what they already do, bring them more traffic and provide another valuable service to their customers. Because they could add a level of professionalism and standardization to the cataloguing of blogs that is currently missing (International Standard Blog Numbers?) The information in blog-jackets could supply the basic content in the catalogue, and then Amazon could use its existing tools like its affinity engines and reader review capabilities to make the catalogue even more useful. Why could Amazon do this better than Google? Because Google is in the search business, not the catalogue business. And Google is already doing a lot for bloggers in their area of expertise. Samplers: My third idea is to give bloggers a way to cross the digital divide and get their blogs and content discovered by hard-copy readers at face-to-face opportunities. Most of us belong to various networks where we talk with people about many of the same things we write about. But several readers have remarked about the disconnect between our P2P and online networks, and that fact that many of those we meet in person have never read what we've written, despite our attempts to get them to do so. Many people just don't read stuff online -- it isn't their 'information behaviour' to do so. And also, when you print articles from your blog on a regular printer, the appearance is usually ghastly -- the print size is too large or small, the formatting gets messed up, the graphics chopped, and the blog sidebar content is an annoying distraction and waste of paper. And the value of the links in the article is lost. What we need is a simple mechanism that allows us to select (perhaps by their permalinks) a set of articles we have written about a particular theme, and to get them indexed, formatted and printed professionally, with a cover page that we can customize for the circumstances. My friend Terry Frazier has been exploring this, and I think he's on the right track. I don't think this needs to be a complicated or costly offering, and the businesses best positioned to print professional-looking samplers may well be instant printers rather than publishers. Think of it as analogous to what the photo developers offer: You e-mail them your photos, they process them professionally and courier or mail them out to you the next day. Instant printers could strip out the blog sidebars, convert the links to footnotes with the full URL listed, add a cover page, format the results professionally for a variety of page sizes, print it on quality stock and even professionally bind it, and mail it out next day for a modest price (probably not much more expensive than a comparable quantity of business cards, but a lot more impressive). Then when you're visiting your P2P networks at Meetups, conferences, breakfast meetings, book circles or other social occasions, your sampler becomes your, and your blog's, calling card. Hard-Copy Partnerships: My final idea for getting your blog discovered is to partner with hard-copy publications that have a similar audience to your blog's. Although some publications have their own blogs, there are still opportunities to exploit the flexibility, timeliness and interactivity of the online world to offer hard-copy publishers opportunities and bridges that they probably don't have the capability, imagination or interest in pursuing themselves. You could offer follow-up forums, research support, additional reading links, reader feedback, and a host of other functionalities on your blog, 'branded' with the hard-copy publication's logo, all of which promotes the hard-copy publication to readers online. In return, you'd get a regular mention in the hard-copy periodical as the 'place to go' online for latest developments and follow-ups on their stories. Who knows, you might even build the partnership to the point where they would publish some of your blog content in hard-copy form, and, if they're big enough, pay you for your services. Even if they don't, they have nothing to lose by giving you some free publicity, and you have nothing to lose by doing the same for them. It beats ads from people you don't know, and allows your blog to benefit from their brand. Has anyone tried any of these techniques, or any other innovative methods to get your under-appreciated blog discovered? My audience surged by 25% after a group of A-listers consecutively wrote about my article on thinking differently last month, but this audience didn't stay long, and my readership has returned to previous levels. I'm increasingly convinced that the type of attention you get from A-listers, and from serendipitous Googlers as well, is rarely sustainable or terribly high quality. We need to try something new.

Online National Hispanic Publications
Audit.

Online National Hispanic Publications
Audit. 06/02/2004 05:41 AM
Hispanicad.com - Wed Jun 2, 07:37 am GMT

Online Lessons on Arthritis

Online Lessons on Arthritis 06/08/2004 05:49 AM
Washingtonpost.com - Tue Jun 8, 07:23 am GMT

Lessons learned from online journals

Lessons learned from online journals 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
There are lessons to be learned from the first round of online journals, hammered out over time in the private spheres of close friends and associates. Many from that time have moved on to other things, but their legacy remains at the core of blogging's foundations. Write for an audience of friends. When you have an audience of a million people, there's no way to anticipate what the best viewpoint to reach them all is; remember that your writing is an expression of your viewpoint, and express it as such. Express your viewpoint as if you were talking to a group of friends: clear, to the point, and perhaps a dash of humor. Aesthetics speak a thousand words. The appearance of a site frames the content contained within, setting the tone for the reader. If your color schemes makes it...

NHSU seeks to learn some valuable online
lessons

NHSU seeks to learn some valuable online
lessons 09/22/2004 11:47 AM
vnunet.com Sep 22 2004 2:56PM GMT

Signposts in Cyberspace

Signposts in Cyberspace 04/10/2005 07:12 AM
Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation
http:/ /www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/publications.html

Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation (March 2005) examines the performance and prospects of the Domain Name System from technical and institutional perspectives, and also looks at how navigation technologies and institutions facilitate finding and accessing Internet resources. It describes the evolution of the technologies and institutions that have supported the growth of the Internet and provides the basis for future decisions that will enable its productive evolution.

Entrepreneurs teach other startups
lessons learned from online venture

Entrepreneurs teach other startups
lessons learned from online venture 12/31/2004 09:07 AM
Pittsburgh.bizjournals.com - Fri Dec 31, 10:46 am GMT

Spotting Signposts to Higher Education

Spotting Signposts to Higher Education 08/19/2004 12:31 AM
Advice is widely available online for jittery parents and their college-bound offspring, even if their graduation date is still some years away.

iCubis.com: An online venue for
inventions, ideas, and the people behind
them.

iCubis.com: An online venue for
inventions, ideas, and the people behind
them. 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
iCubis launched the first-ever web site that is geared solely to helping the world’s creative minds sell themselves and their products. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs. 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
eTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine integrates online dating with social networking, event planning & management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Online Dating News Blogs

Online Dating News Blogs 09/01/2004 07:31 PM
Userplane: A blog about online dating trends. Be the first to find out if an online site is tanking financially, new site launches, and miscellaneous finds like Apprentice Friendster profiles, services like lemondate (see if others thought your date was a lemon), and animalattraction.com (a dating service for pet lovers). See also Online Personals Watch for similar online dating news.

Full Tilt Poker Announces Free Weekly
Email Lessons to Compliment Your Online
Poker Learning Experience

Full Tilt Poker Announces Free Weekly
Email Lessons to Compliment Your Online
Poker Learning Experience 04/05/2005 02:46 PM
Full Tilt Poker is the only online poker site where you get free weekly email lessons from World Poker Champs Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, and the rest of Team Full Tilt. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

""Two fifths of Americans online have
read political bl0gs.""

""Two fifths of Americans online have
read political bl0gs."" 04/15/2005 12:12 PM

Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing
Consumer Buzz Online

Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing
Consumer Buzz Online 04/07/2005 10:51 PM

RSS, Podcasts, Blogs - Online Media as
We Know it is on the Verge of Changing
Forever

RSS, Podcasts, Blogs - Online Media as
We Know it is on the Verge of Changing
Forever 03/14/2005 04:40 PM
Internet talk show Changing Media, interviews Rodney Rumford of My RSS Creator in an effort to explore online media through the eyes of an Internet marketing veteran. They dive head first into discussions on RSS, Podcasting and the future of online media in general. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Blogs and RSS Boost Your Online
Business, Rankings, Traffic and Sales

Blogs and RSS Boost Your Online
Business, Rankings, Traffic and Sales 06/24/2005 05:45 PM
Stickysauce Jun 23 2005 5:20PM GMT

La Shawn Barber on Blogs and Rathergate
on National Review Online

La Shawn Barber on Blogs and Rathergate
on National Review Online 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
unsung contributors to the blogosphere .. The Blogosphere’s Smaller Stars .. small-scalle conservative bloggers .. some of the "smaller" blogs .. LaShawn Barber

nationalreview.com/comment/barber200412200814.asp
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Online exposure Iraqis turn to bl0gs to
express their fears and aspirations

Online exposure Iraqis turn to bl0gs to
express their fears and aspirations 09/08/2004 03:27 AM
BBC Sep 8 2004 8:08AM GMT

TCB::Publications 0.99.02

TCB::Publications 0.99.02 05/19/2004 08:44 PM
A publications database.

PHP Publications: Comming Soon

PHP Publications: Comming Soon 11/12/2002 09:36 AM

Latest W3C publications

Latest W3C publications 02/25/2003 10:16 AM
The following documents have been published recently by the W3C: SVG Printing Requirements, OWL Language Reference, DOM Level 3 Events, Voice XML 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation), and XML Protocol Abstract Model

Latest Publications and Happenings

Latest Publications and Happenings 05/17/2004 05:59 AM
The last few months have been extremely busy for me as I have been in the content creation mode. I have listed some of the freely available content that I have created. I also appreciate comments, suggestions and resources!


Searching the Internet White Paper
Includes 11 Page White Paper, 8 Page Spanish Translated White paper, 10 Minute Audio and five 4 minute segments Online Streaming Video
http://www.SearchingTheIn ternet.info/

Awareness Watch™ April 2004 V2N4 Newsletter (26 Pages)
Featured Report: Research Tools and Research Resources
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive .html#108026523689394364

Awareness Watch™ May 2004 V2N5 Newsletter (31 Pages)
Featured Report: Business Intelligence Resources
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_zillman_archive.html#10830082 9695869728

Zillman Column April 2004 Survey Resources on the Internet (9 Pages)
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive .html#108009550550657147

Zillman Column May 2004 eCommerce Resources on the Internet (9 Pages)
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_zillman_archive .html#108256858844754524

Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet Weekly Audblogs
http://www.ListenToMarcus.com/

Current Awareness Discovery Tools On the Internet White Paper
19 Pages) 4-01-04 Update
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_zillman_archive .html#107564288680988251

Using the Internet As a Dynamic Resource Tool for Knowledge Discovery White Paper
(16 Pages) 4-01-04 Update
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_zillman_archive .html#107564288680988251

LLRX: Deep Web Research Feature Article by Marcus P. Zillman including Audio
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_zillman_archive .html#108298511151250084

Robin Good Interview of Marcus P. Zillman: The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive. html#108014993785312446

An Expert Helps You Search the Internet
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive .html#108017086604698130

The Hindu Subject Tracers™ Article
tp://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.h tml#108067641111150178

Deep Web Research
Updated this Subject Tracer by adding two new sections:
1) Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines
2) Resources - Semantic Web Research
http://www.DeepWebResearch.inf o/

Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs
Currently 30 Subject Tracers and Growing! Available through:
Virtual Private Library
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Agriculture Resources
http://www.Agriculture Resources.info/

Theology Resources
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Financial Sources
http://www.FinancialSources.i nfo/

Reference Resources
http://www.ReferenceResourc es.info/

Zillman Blog
This is where I post lastest resources for research and searching the Internet
http://www.Zillman.us

Publications by Nigel Bevan

Publications by Nigel Bevan 06/06/2002 04:35 PM
"All these documents are downloadable. To read these documents you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader."

PostNuke Publications Module

PostNuke Publications Module 04/26/2004 02:06 AM
Alpha Development Started

Gawker Media Contract Publications

Gawker Media Contract Publications 06/03/2004 01:50 PM
nick launches ad inserts for blogs. another really good idea.

Fun article about personal ads in
"intellectual" publications

Fun article about personal ads in
"intellectual" publications 01/06/2004 05:36 AM
Love among the intellectuals .. "Love in the personals" .. Sydney Morning Herald .. Arts & Letters Daily .. more»

smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/02/1072908885008.html
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International Monetary Fund Publications

International Monetary Fund Publications 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
International Monetary Fund Publications
http://www.imf.org/exter nal/pubind.htm

IMF Publications page allowing you to search for International Monetary Fund publications.

OCLC Research Publications Repository

OCLC Research Publications Repository 09/08/2004 06:39 AM
OCLC Research Publications Repository
http://www. oclc.org/research/publications/about.htm

This repository contains works produced, sponsored, or submitted by OCLC Research. In general, the works are research-oriented and are in the subject area of library and information science. Many items describe OCLC Research projects, activities, and programs and were originally published by OCLC, while others are from peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The repository contains metadata (MARC, Dublin Core) about publications and, whenever available and permitted, a link to the full digital text of items described. The repository is under construction. At present the repository contains:

* 507 metadata records (out of 913 items published by OCLC staff since 1979)
* links to the full text of 288 items.

It contains current publications back to 2001, all "born digital" publications, and at least 40% of OCLC Research's corpus of work. A complete bibliography of OCLC Research publications is available here. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog under Information and Information Science Directory Classification. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Free Public Records - BRB Publications

Free Public Records - BRB Publications 08/12/2004 05:57 AM
Free Public Record Sites- BRB Publications
http://www.brbpub.com/pub recsites.asp

At this web page, BRB provides a core group of links to FREE government searchable public records sites along with some important non-government sites. You will not find superfluous sites or multiple listings of the same link. We have indicated if a site is not searchable by name. The links list is updated weekly. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Informatiuon Blog. This has also been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides.

Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
Publications

Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
Publications 11/11/2002 06:02 AM

Dow Jones Exec Tries To Get Other
Publications To Lock Up Content

Dow Jones Exec Tries To Get Other
Publications To Lock Up Content 03/29/2005 08:46 PM
As more and more people are noticing that the Wall Street Journal is becoming less relevant in important discussions -- mainly because of their decision to lock up content behind a pay wall -- Journal owner Dow Jones is apparently trying to push other publications to make the same mistake. The company's president of electronic publishing has announced that other publications should put up a pay wall just as many are discovering the power of online advertising and the ability to get more traffic by being as free and accessible as possible. He claims "it would be good for the industry," if more publications charged -- but he really means it would be good for the WSJ, because there would be less free content competing with his content. He also claims that "publishers in all mediums have tended to devalue their brands," which is missing the point (by a wide margin). If anyone has "devalued" their brand, it's the Wall Street Journal, by taking itself out of the discussion. People don't just consu me the news any more, they are a part of the process, and that includes the ability to help spread the news. The Wall Street Journal doesn't seem to realize that the times have changed -- which is too bad for a publication that claims to be so good at spotting important trends.

Tips for Optimizing Your Publications
for Commecial Printing

Tips for Optimizing Your Publications
for Commecial Printing 01/05/2004 11:40 PM
This reference guide provides helpful information to optimize Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 publications created for commercial print output.

Peachpit plans plethora of Panther
publications

Peachpit plans plethora of Panther
publications 11/12/2003 02:54 PM
Peachpit Press has unveiled the first of its seven Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") titles with the release of Maria Langer's "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: Visual QuickStart Guide" (ISBN 0321213513). The US$24.99 offers task-based, step-by-step instructions and includes chapters on networking, security, Unix, the Classic environment, utilities, and system preferences.

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism

Roles of Traditional Publications and
New Media in Innovation Journalism 04/05/2005 04:44 PM
Andreas Cervenka, AffŠrsvŠrlden, was working at Sweden's largest daily during the boom and saw a demand for tomorrow's news today, so he started his own new media venture. One thing they started with was the attention of other journalists,...

Federal Library and Information Center
Committee (FLICC) Publications

Federal Library and Information Center
Committee (FLICC) Publications 07/12/2004 06:00 AM
Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Publications
http://www.loc.gov/fl icc/publications.html

Find the latest information on information science and the federal library community or the newest FEDLINK program innovations and product and service offerings. The Online Video Library adds another dimension to the resources available online. Featured are: FedLink Technical Notes, New Handbook on Federal Librarianship and the FLICC Newsletter. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

eCommerce and web based Sales Order
Processing system for HB Publications

eCommerce and web based Sales Order
Processing system for HB Publications 08/19/2004 02:21 AM
London based HB Group is the latest company to have had Aspin Interactive's eCommerce and sales order processing system. [PRWEB Aug 19, 2004]

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features 08/13/2004 12:47 PM
eTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing social networking, online dating, and event planning features. Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members, as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
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