A footnote in blogging history
A long time ago (2002), Dave McClure told me 'Just think, one of these days there will be so many Blogger users you'll have to have a blogging conference!' This weeks Blog World Expo and Conference in Las Vegas isn't the first conference on blogging but it just might be the largest dedicated solely to blogging. I will be moderating the keynote panel on Thursday where I will be speaking with: Roger L. Simon CEO and founder of Pajamas Media, Jeremy Wright CEO and founder of b5 media, Brad Hill Director of Weblogs Inc. at AOL and Richard Jalichandra the new CEO of Technorati. If you have any interesting questions you would like for me to ask any of these folks, please leave them in the comments below.
This is particularly fun for me since about this time seven years ago I had started doing business development for Blogger and was in Las Vegas at Comdex trying to explain to huge consumer electronics and software companies exactly what a blog was and why it would be interesting to work together. It took a few years to wear them down. Tomorrow, I'll be in the same convention hall in front of thousands of bloggers there to talk about... blogging. I know it's not earth shattering but certainly a lot of fun to see it's growth. I've also been reflecting over the past few months on my 10 years of working on the web and specifically on blogging and other social media products. A couple of things are beginning to stand out that I would like to share, but I'm going to get to bed here in Las Vegas and save that for another day.
Labels: blogging
Tofu Redux
If things look weird on this site it's because I just switched my blog over to using the new (and excellent) Blogger beta. In testing it out I went through some older posts like my Tofu Rant and made some tweaks. It's one of the oldest posts on this blog and it's originally from July 31, 2000 (over six and a half years ago) - however, some aggregators have picked it up as new, resulting in new comments, confusing re-syndication, and a general feeling of un-ease on my part since I haven't looked at that post in ages. I was just getting comfortable with a blog writing style back then. I always tell people that I started my blog for five friends from back home and the tone has changed over the course of the years as a few more people have started reading my humble little site. Funny thing about blogs, they tell you more about yourself the longer you keep them going.
A side note, if I could find contact information anywhere over at Googlersblogs, I would tell them a few things:
- I don't mind folks aggregating my posts, especially if it's a non-profit site. However, don't change the default linking behavior. At least make the headlines link back to the source site. Bloglines and Google Reader do the right thing here.
- You have many non-Googlers listed as Googlers. That's a little odd.
- Login to post comments? Why not just pull in comment feeds and link to the post for further commenting.
- If you ever add advertising to your site and you are still syndicating full posts, I want out or a fair way to participate in the revenue.
- Please add contact info for yourself. It's generally creepy to have someone how is so interested in the lives of Googlers stay in the shadows.
Labels: blogging, food, google, personal, retro
2 Comments
Links to this post
