Presentations http://kwc.org/presentations/ en-us conley@alum.mit.edu Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:25:20 +0000 Hello http://kwc.org/presentations/2004/11/hello.html Opening Slide kwc... Wrap-Up http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/wrapup.html A personal definition: Weblogging is enabling users to leverage Web sites as a communication channel to talk about Web pages (content). Parting example: Trackback (example demo)... Third-Party Services http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/thirdparty_serv.html BloggerBot: add content via AOL IM audioBLOGGER: add audio content via phone Bloglet: Subscribe to content via e-mail Blo.gs/Weblogs.com: Repositories of recently changed blogs. Moblogging (example) Technorati: Add your "Link Cosmos" to your site (Example) Blogrolling: Manage yours links... Plugins http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/plugins_1.html Blogging user community = development community MovableType has "Open Architecture," encourages plugins Examples: Text formatting: TikiText, Speling, Regex, Map Locations (Example) Content portal: Weather, News/link feeds, Book Queue (w/ Cuecat support), Amazon (Example) Programming: variable setting, SQL... General Architecture http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/general_archite.html Input: Database backend (e.g. MySQL, BerkeleyDB) CGI for data entry/site management PHP/XSLT-like templates Tags embedded in HTML Conditionals, iterators Output: Static HTML pages (front page, archive pages) XML for syndication (RSS)... Playing with Blogging http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/playing_with_bl.html Options for setting up your own personal blog: Thirdparty provider Blogger Logjamming Downloading free software MovableType Radio Userland My setup: MovableType + Apache 2.x Web Server on XP ActiveState Perl Basic Demo... Blogging and Google Go Hand-in-Hand http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/blogging_and_go.html Blogging's nature is amenable to Google's search algorithms Google Bombing (making a page a top search result): For fun, profit, or revenge MovableType includes Google API support (example) Where's Raed? is top search result for "Baghdad" Technorati perhaps provides... Blogging in the news http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/blogging_in_the.html Trent Lott criticism linked to blogs (Atrios and Instapundit) Where's Raed? covered by BBC, MSNBC, etc... Popular myth about Jessica Lynch floated by blogs... Common Attributes http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/common_attribut.html Time-index, dynamic, current content Single author (personal blog) vs. many author (community blog) Searchable (blogchalking [example]) Many links to external sites (editor rather than journalist) Comments Usually provide content in easy-to-syndicate format (RSS->RDF->XML) Good aesthetics Bad information design (example)... Types of Weblogs http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/types_of_weblog.html Community (news) blogs: Slashdot.org, Pennyarcade journal with (Comic) Google News? Personal blogs/journals: Dan Gillmor (SJ Mercury), Howard Dean (maintained by campaign staff), Wil Wheaton, William Gibson, David Hyatt (Safari/Mozilla developer) Four of the top ten "blogs" are personal blogs/journals (according... What is a Weblog? http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/what_is_a_weblo_1.html According to Jorn Barger (who originally coined the term in 1997): A weblog (sometimes called a blog or a newspage or a filter) is a webpage where a weblogger (sometimes called a blogger, or a pre-surfer) 'logs' all the... Weblogging Introduction http://kwc.org/presentations/2003/05/weblogging_intr.html May 19, 2003 NOTE: This is an old presentation I gave quite awhile ago (using MovableType as my Powerpoint), forgive it's out-of-date information and inaccuracies. I am only using it now to play with Eric Meyer's S5 tool....