Links for “Unfashionably Late,” My Reply To Dee Rambeau
When I found my post about Dee Rambeau’s “farewell to blogging” growing past 10,000 words, I decided to make a little e-book instead of posting it. I also decided not to put links in the pdf file, because readers would have driven themselves crazy following links; they’d never get my own essay finished.
The links that would have gone in the essay if I’d let them, are here:
Creative Commons licensing.
Dee Rambeau’s farewell post on his own blog.
Amanda Chapel’s post about the burst bubble of business blogging.
Wikipedia article on “irrational exuberance.”
The folks Amanda calls “rabid” in her “bubble” post:
MLMs: Multi-Level Marketing.
Wordpress, fine blog tool. I’ve stuck with it through two blogging careers.
Build a Better Podcast, my short-lived podcast about podcasting.
The quintessential A-listers I use as examples:
Darren Rouse’s post on 15 requisites for the professional blogger. The post, by Daniel at Daily Blog Tips, which Darren takes off on.
My own post on editors, which won me my 2005 scoble.
Scoble’s post linking to mine.
Financial Times. It shows up on my driveway daily. I read it most days. It’s excellent.
Wikipedia entry on Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, London.
Wonkette. Not, oh please, to be confused with Strumpette, whom I also mention in my essay, and whose link is above.
MIT Sloan School of Management.
The allegedly sleazy ADM.
The HP Way.
George Orwell Resources.
Lists of tools:
- asymptomatic.net, blogging tools.
- aggcompare.com, rss aggregators.
- podcatchermatrix.org, podcast aggregators.
Social Bookmarking:
Wikipedia’s list of social software.
More social sites: squidoo and AmIHot.
Grant McCracken’s first post on “Cloudiness.” He’s done more since then.
Paul Graham’s essay “Is It Worth Being Wise?”
Hobson and Holtz, their fine podcast, “For Immediate Release“.
Kathy Sierra passes on a video of a newborn horse. I also used a photo from her post. Glorious!
Dee’s Post at Marcom Blog explaining his no longer blogging.
Radio Userland, the first blogging tool I ever loved.
Robert French at Auburn University. His students’ blog there: Marcom Blog.
Scripting News. I started reading Davenet in 1998, and I still enjoy reading Dave when he takes the time to write anything longer than 20 words.
Scobleizer. Robert Scoble’s blog, the basis of my new economic unit, the scoble. A scoble is the average value of one link to your blog from Scobleizer.
Skype. Rocks and isn’t a time sink, like the next two.
MySpace. Sorry, but I always navigate very briskly away from sites that play sounds at me unbidden.
Second Life. You have got to be kidding. God has given me maybe 85 years, if I take after my mom’s side. I have already stuffed 4 or 5 careers into that, and I want to get in about 3 more. So I have time to go build a house of bits in a world of pixels, and hang out with people who have that little to do? Nononononononononono! No!
Lee Hopkins. A good man fallen among Second Life, but still okay.
Google Alerts. They rock. Google is probably the company that will be smart enough to implement what I suggest in this essay.
Photo Credits: (partial here, complete in the book)
StockXchng Stock Photography web site, from which I took many pictures for the essay. Below I list the web sites of individual photographers whose work I used and who have their own sites. In the e-book, I list the StockXchng pages of the others who upload their photos there.
Teacup photo: Matthew Bowden. Gillingham, Kent, UK.
Dead Parrot Photo, from Wikipedia’s entry on “Dead Parrot Sketch.”
“Price Tag” photo: Hilary Quinn. Cork, Munster, Eire.
“Arborial Marsupial Road Sign”: Laurent Cottier. Lausanne, Switzerland.
World Socialist Movement web site.
“Diva and Filly” photo: Kathy Sierra, link given above.
Telescope photo: Martti Vire, Rauma, Finland
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February 28th, 2007 at 3:06 am
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March 1st, 2007 at 8:11 am
Hello Max,
I’ve read the ebook and thank you for the mention of our classroom blogging activities.
For a little clarification, I’ll offer the following re: “His students’ blog there: Marcom Blog.”
Actually, the students comment at Marcom Blog and the contributors write the posts / articles.
The students do write posts (blog) in their own individual blogs at PRblogs.org, a site we started a few years ago. RSS feeds for PRblogs.org posts and comments.
Beyond that, the students also blog, write and collaborate in these sites.
Loveliest Village blog and wiki; MarcomWiki; Marcom Meme
There are actually several other sites, mostly hidden behind passwords, where the students experiment with social media.
Our goal is to gain knowledge of, and exposure to, the best practices in social media. That way the students may be prepared to answer questions from future clients and perhaps implement a social media project / campaign for those clients.
In years past, they actually installed and administered their own blogs. But, I found that it took too much time and we are not, after all, an IT class. So, we went with the PRblogs.org option, thanks to James Farmer of edublogs.org, in Australia.
All that being said, the area we realize that may be most useful for PR practitioners is the tracking of conversations. That’s why we use Marcom Meme and also explore various options for RSS searches.
I will share your ebook with the students. Thank you.
March 1st, 2007 at 10:44 am
Robert, thanks for the clarification and the links. I had actually noticed that the students’ activity on Marcom Blog was limited to commenting, but since to comment is to participate, I chose to call that blogging.
I also noticed that (in an admittedly small sampling) I saw only one link from a students’ comment to her own blog. That was why I recommended that each have their own blog. (Very simple now at Wordpress.com, BTW. It looks like PRblogs.org might be using Wordpress MU, a fine choice.) If more students who comment on MB would link to their own work, I’d be happy to click and read.
My recommendations still stand. Which is not to imply that what your students are experiencing is an any way inadequate. In fact, it looks like, far from guzzling kool-aid, they are getting a fine and forward-looking education there. I hope they appreciate it.
My best to you and them.