Comments on: The egalitarian nature of blogging http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dangerously Irrelevant http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30533 Dangerously Irrelevant Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:08:06 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30533 <strong>Why do we blog?...</strong> Miguel’s wistful. Anne’s feeling dull. Wesley’s introspective. Doug’s worried that some of his favorite bloggers are trying to compensate. This all serves to highlight the results from the education blogosphere survey that I did last month. We ... Why do we blog?…

Miguel’s wistful. Anne’s feeling dull. Wesley’s introspective. Doug’s worried that some of his favorite bloggers are trying to compensate. This all serves to highlight the results from the education blogosphere survey that I did last month. We …

]]> By: Kate Fahey http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30525 Kate Fahey Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:44:39 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30525 Those are some great guidelines. I have found personal blogging to be incredibly rewarding, however, expanding that to my professional life is a challenge. I think I make the assumption that my style of writing must be scholarly in nature, which is very difficult for me. Your rules reminded me to let passion guide my entries. Thank you! Those are some great guidelines. I have found personal blogging to be incredibly rewarding, however, expanding that to my professional life is a challenge. I think I make the assumption that my style of writing must be scholarly in nature, which is very difficult for me. Your rules reminded me to let passion guide my entries. Thank you!

]]> By: alQpr » Blog Archive » Egalitarian Nature of Blogging http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30521 alQpr » Blog Archive » Egalitarian Nature of Blogging Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:30:00 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30521 [...] Wesley Fryer on The Egalitarian Nature of Blogging [...] [...] Wesley Fryer on The Egalitarian Nature of Blogging [...]

]]> By: Wesley Fryer http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30514 Wesley Fryer Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:08:17 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30514 Andy, I have looked at blogpulse and considered using it, but have not yet. <a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=www.speedofcreativity.org&operator=" rel="nofollow">The feature of being able to do a custom search and then click on the peaks of the graph</a> is certainly innovative. I agree it seems to be missing a LOT of conversations, however, which Technorati picks up. Scott, the ideal of listening more than we talk is definitely a good one. It is hard to measure the relative quantities of reading and writing when scanning posts and articles on the web, and I agree the logic of numbers falls down when we get to fingers.... Still, it's a good reminder to me to make sure I'm focusing on listening every day and not just "talking" in either F2F or virtual spaces! Andy, I have looked at blogpulse and considered using it, but have not yet. The feature of being able to do a custom search and then click on the peaks of the graph is certainly innovative. I agree it seems to be missing a LOT of conversations, however, which Technorati picks up.

Scott, the ideal of listening more than we talk is definitely a good one. It is hard to measure the relative quantities of reading and writing when scanning posts and articles on the web, and I agree the logic of numbers falls down when we get to fingers…. Still, it’s a good reminder to me to make sure I’m focusing on listening every day and not just “talking” in either F2F or virtual spaces!

]]> By: Scott Elias http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30508 Scott Elias Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:57:19 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30508 Great post, Wesley. As I continue to get invested in edublogging, I am finding posts like this more and more useful. At this point, caring about a Technorati ranking would be counterproductive to what I feel I'm trying to accomplish. I'm still writing mainly for myself and to continue to filter and process all the inspiring content that lives out there in the blogosphere. I'm trying to follow the sage wisdom I recall from my youth and apply it to the digital age: God gave us two eyes and two ears but only one mouth. So in theory, I should be reading and listening at least twice as much as I'm saying. But if I'm "saying" by typing, I'm trying to reconcile the fact that I have two hands and TEN fingers for typing... :-) Great post, Wesley. As I continue to get invested in edublogging, I am finding posts like this more and more useful. At this point, caring about a Technorati ranking would be counterproductive to what I feel I’m trying to accomplish. I’m still writing mainly for myself and to continue to filter and process all the inspiring content that lives out there in the blogosphere.

I’m trying to follow the sage wisdom I recall from my youth and apply it to the digital age: God gave us two eyes and two ears but only one mouth. So in theory, I should be reading and listening at least twice as much as I’m saying. But if I’m “saying” by typing, I’m trying to reconcile the fact that I have two hands and TEN fingers for typing… :-)

]]> By: andy carvin http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30507 andy carvin Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:10:20 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30507 Fascinating stuff. I have love-hate relationship with Technorati; I use it constantly, but it's still far from perfect. Even though I'm happy with the ranking of my <a href="http://www.andycarvin.com" rel="nofollow">personal blog</a> (which seems to fluctuate from ranked 4000 to 7500 on a weekly basis), I know it's still flawed information, since some of those hits in technorati are coming from spam blogs (splogs) and not real people. In other cases, people link to my old url, edwebproject.org/andy/blog, and that takes away from the numbers included in my ranking. I also discovered a few months ago that technorati had been ignoring learning.now for a long time because it was treating the damn .now in the name as a top-level domain name and was getting confused by it, so it wasn't showing any results. It appears to be fixed, but I still don't trust how it's ranking it, either up or down. At least I can take solace from the fact that the other site I work on, npr.org, is ranked 6th. :-) Meanwhile, does anyone use www.blogpulse.com to track their sites? They offer a lot more metrics, but they're totally out of sync with Technorati. For example, my blog was ranked in the top 500 for a while, then down into the 3000 range, then in the top 300, then in the 5000 range. It seems what they do is try to filter out blogs of less consequence, as it were, and measure the number of "authoritative" blogs linking to you. Fascinating stuff. I have love-hate relationship with Technorati; I use it constantly, but it’s still far from perfect. Even though I’m happy with the ranking of my personal blog (which seems to fluctuate from ranked 4000 to 7500 on a weekly basis), I know it’s still flawed information, since some of those hits in technorati are coming from spam blogs (splogs) and not real people. In other cases, people link to my old url, edwebproject.org/andy/blog, and that takes away from the numbers included in my ranking. I also discovered a few months ago that technorati had been ignoring learning.now for a long time because it was treating the damn .now in the name as a top-level domain name and was getting confused by it, so it wasn’t showing any results. It appears to be fixed, but I still don’t trust how it’s ranking it, either up or down. At least I can take solace from the fact that the other site I work on, npr.org, is ranked 6th. :-)

Meanwhile, does anyone use http://www.blogpulse.com to track their sites? They offer a lot more metrics, but they’re totally out of sync with Technorati. For example, my blog was ranked in the top 500 for a while, then down into the 3000 range, then in the top 300, then in the 5000 range. It seems what they do is try to filter out blogs of less consequence, as it were, and measure the number of “authoritative” blogs linking to you.

]]> By: Christy Tucker http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30506 Christy Tucker Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:04:49 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30506 Thanks for the good tips and the thoughtful post. I'm a newbie--blogging for a whole month now--and I feel like I'm still trying to find my own voice in these conversations. Your post on how you choose blog topics was helpful too. I appreciated seeing someone else break down that process and provide insight on how you get to this end product. Keep sharing! Thanks for the good tips and the thoughtful post. I’m a newbie–blogging for a whole month now–and I feel like I’m still trying to find my own voice in these conversations. Your post on how you choose blog topics was helpful too. I appreciated seeing someone else break down that process and provide insight on how you get to this end product. Keep sharing!

]]> By: David Truss http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30502 David Truss Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:04:09 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/01/31/the-egalitarian-nature-of-blogging/#comment-30502 If nothing else, Scott McLeod has provided many of us with a great resource. It is very useful to have a list of top edubloggers to peruse- there are a number on his list that I did not know about. I spend enough (ok too much) time on the web... why not have a list that shows us what thousands of people find useful in the world of educational blogs. Thanks to him for making the list, and to you for pointing me towards it! If nothing else, Scott McLeod has provided many of us with a great resource.
It is very useful to have a list of top edubloggers to peruse- there are a number on his list that I did not know about. I spend enough (ok too much) time on the web… why not have a list that shows us what thousands of people find useful in the world of educational blogs.
Thanks to him for making the list, and to you for pointing me towards it!

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