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I'd also be sure to add the obligatory buttons to the foot of your story, or the header, as some bloggers do. We've done this for delicious, digg and reddit. Others such as Newsvine may also appeal, but don't overdo it...
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Seeded on Mon Sep 4, 2006 6:01 AM EDT
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He only gives Newsvine the benefit of the doubt: 'may also appeal' ... Perhaps best though, since I don't see why Newsvine would need many items about internet marketing anyway.
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#1 - Mon Sep 4, 2006 6:03 AM EDTThe problem I see with this guy is that, while the tag links are all legitimate serivices, it looks more like the guy in question is a snake oil salesman. But then, he is a search engine optimisation guru, so doginess is a given. I deal with SEO companies at work and all the ones I see are shonks that offer a mix of the blindingly obvious and the outright stupid site changes that will see your site get blacklisted.
He's dead right to question adding Newsvine, because this is a news site and the bulk of seeders have an interest in news. We have an advertising report button to deal with spam. digg has a less discriminating bunch of active posters, who will happily post any old garbage, so a spammy site may slip through before being modded out of existence by everyone else. Neither option sounds like a useful way of promoting a dubious site or even one of limited news appeal.
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I know I am going to set some of you off but I have to say I am not convinced all of this blogging is necessary or effective or even needed. What happens when every person on the Internet has his/her own blog? Babble? Quagmire? Traffic jam?
The technology behind blogs I see being useful. Although I can't for the life of me understand the great craving for tags, I will concede they may have their place if used intelligently and in some systematic way. The idea of being able to write, edit, distribute and archive your own material is wonderful. Beyond all this I don't get blogs.
Newsvine, I guess, is a blog, or a group of blogs or whatever. BUT Newsvine provides a structure that we use to great advantage to get our individual messages out. We get much more coverage through Newsvine than we could hope to realize in our individual blogs. Newsvine gives us a managed base that we do not have to worry about while we do our creative writing thing. Sure, it is nice to be able to say "I did it all, and I did it my way." That doesn't get the word out. We are so much more effective when we work in groups than by ourselves.
In this light, I continue to urge Newsvine to make their structure available to groups which would work independently on their own desk at Newsvine.
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#2 - Mon Sep 4, 2006 7:02 AM EDTI agree oldfogey and I'm glad to see your view of the tags. Maybe that's my bias as one who tags seldom and poorly.
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I guess it depends on how you look at blogs. If you view them as global entities, then they look like nothing but noise. But the vast majority of blogs are created, not to talk to the world at large, but to communicate with a small group of friends.
Then you get the grey areas where blogging software has been used as a mini CMS for a web site. Technically, it is a blog, but it no longer functions that way.
I have to question the general antipathy towards blogs from many sectors. How is it any different from all those crappy Geocities pages? Some people can throw together a great blog full of interesting articles that appeal to a wide audience, others look like chicken scratchings that only make sense to a couple of people, then there's the horror of MySpace. It's just different technology that makes it easier for the average, non-technical person to update their site regularly.
So, it's not a new type of site, just a new technology.
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