Thursday, June 22, 2006



It's very easy to start a blog, but it takes a bit of practice to write an interesting enough blog that readers will want to come back again and again. There are many things bloggers -- both neophytes and veterans -- can do to improve their blog and themselves as writers:
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The Blog, The Press, The Media: My Blog, My Rules
When the blogosphere's leading lights gather for a two-day "unconference" on the art and science of blogs, you're sure to get one thing: lots of blog posts about blogging.

In fact, if you didn't make it onto the signup list for one of the freewheeling discussions at the fourth BloggerCon IV, you could watch a webcast or read all about it online, since participants scrambled Friday to post every salient detail as the event unfolded.


BloggerCon Boosts the Blog Boom [ Bad things happen to good characters. Pop-up window with handy key strokes.; Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Bicycling Dalmation ]
• · Carrying on their work from last year's groundbreaking invention of the worlds first single molecule car (bet that one's easy to park) chemists at Rice University, in Houston Texas, have now produced the first motorised version of this tiny nanocar Technology is always bringing us the 'next big thing' but will it be good for us? ; State lifts blog ban on one Web site, but publisher of another mulls lawsuit
• · · Everyone thinks they can be a writer; but there's a big difference between a writer and someone who writes. Good writers know how to capture an audience early, engage them throughout the piece, and keep them interested enough that they actually want to stick around until the end. Like music, there's a cadence and rhythm to the written word. This is what separates an aria from a cat choking on a chicken bone. From Slogger to Blogger: Tips for a Better Blog; I've come to realize that my ideals (let's not call them ideals...let's call them ideas, because they're far from ideal) are too radical even for fellow anarcho-capitalists Just a Stupid Personal Blog
• · · · Finding a Blog Worth Reading ; Citizen journalism agency launches blog sales service
• · · · · Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, AMR, U.S. Airways, and Apple Computer ; Conservative bloggers seek a place on the political Web
• · · · · · This one is a little different. How We Blog: The Man Blog Bloggers ; Outdoors becomes high-tech with blog