{"id":193,"date":"2006-02-22T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-02-22T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:07:24","slug":"round-up-changing-nature-of-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2006\/02\/22\/round-up-changing-nature-of-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up: Changing nature of blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on some material about the changing nature of blogs as part of my preparation for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cti.sba.uwm.edu\/workshop\/03172006.html\">workshop<\/a> I am leading at the University of Wisconsin next month. Here are some of the posts I&#8217;ve collected over the past few weeks that may be used in the session. As always, I&#8217;ll post a summary of the session here on the Roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>Three excellent posts from Newsome.org:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsome.org\/2006\/02\/five-steps-to-good-blogging.shtml\">5 steps to good blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsome.org\/2006\/02\/no-comments-old-school-or-playing.shtml\">No comments: old school or playing hooky<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsome.org\/2006\/02\/politics-of-blogging.shtml\">The politics of blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guy Kawasaki&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2006\/02\/how_to_suck_up_.html\"> How to suck up to a blogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stowe Boyd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoweboyd.com\/message\/2006\/02\/scoble_on_tips_.html\">Scoble on tips for joining the A-list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foghound, <a href=\"http:\/\/foghound.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/positioning-and-messaging-is-not.html\">Positioning and messaging is not an option<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB113945389770169170-0DZ4wQffelheiC5fe4GISe73UwQ_20070209.html?mod=blogs\">WSJ article on blog ethics<\/a>, chiefly around the issue of disclosing financial interest in companies you blog about, found on Media Guerilla, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mguerrilla.com\/media_guerrilla\/2006\/02\/blogger_disclos.html\">Blogger Disclosure Practices Tested<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CorporatePR, <a href=\"http:\/\/ringblog.typepad.com\/corporatepr\/2006\/01\/when_is_a_blog_.html\">When is a blog really a blog?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\/Moveable_Type\/archives\/002233.html\">Web 2.0 malarkey<\/a> from gaping void<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.holtz.com\/index.php\/weblog\/the_role_of_the_roll\/\">The role of the roll,<\/a> Shel Holtz <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000423.html\">Technorati Favorites<\/a>, opinions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mguerrilla.com\/media_guerrilla\/2006\/02\/playing_technor.html\">Media Guerilla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideagrove.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/will-you-sign-my-technorati-favorites.html\">Media Orchard<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Micro Persuasion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2006\/01\/how_and_when_to.html\">How and When to Respond to Conversations<\/a>, a summary of a discussion at the Word of Mouth Marketing conference in January <\/p>\n<p>Cymfony&#8217;s new media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cymfony.com\/res.asp\">Knowledge Center<\/a> (seen on Micro Persuasion)<\/p>\n<p>A post about the A-list &quot;thing&quot; that I missed in my earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/getgood.typepad.com\/getgood_strategic_marketi\/2006\/02\/the_alist_train.html\">round-up<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philgomes.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/why-i-hate-a-list-mentality.htm\">Why I hate the A-list mentality<\/a>, Phil Gomes<\/p>\n<p>Worker Bees, <a href=\"http:\/\/workerbeesblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/does-blog-without-comments-smell-as.html\">Does a blog without comments smell as sweet?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I also plan to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideagrove.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/holy-crap-dr-myra-makes-new-york-times.html\">Dr. Myra<\/a>, as an example of what NOT to do. <\/p>\n<p>And Dell will get more than a passing mention, not just for the continuing saga of dis-satisfied customers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-24,GGLG:en&amp;q=dell+hell\">Dell Hell<\/a>, but also for the news item I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadwatch.org\/node\/5701\">Threadwatch<\/a> today. Apparently Dell is suing a website designer named Paul Dell for using the domain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dellwebsites.com\/\">www.dellwebsites.com<\/a>. Perhaps there&#8217;s more to the story than meets the eye, but it seems to me that Michael Dell can&#8217;t be the only Dell on the planet who is allowed to use his name in connection with a business endeavor. Hhmm? Just can&#8217;t shake the feeling &#8212; Dell is a company that just doesn&#8217;t &quot;get it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus link<\/strong> (not for the workshop and your payback for wading through this post): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/cheneygun.html\">Cheney&#8217;s Got a Gun<\/a> (tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/wagnercomm.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/internets-make-these-parodies-so-easy.html\">John Wagner<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on some material about the changing nature of blogs as part of my preparation for a workshop I am leading at the University of Wisconsin next month. Here are some of the posts I&#8217;ve collected over the past few weeks that may be used in the session. 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