Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Two great articles on blogging

This week Wired has two great articles on blogging.

The Secret Life of a Blog Post
by Frank Rose
Page 132

This article is about what happens to your blog post after you submit it for everyone to read. Your post will be pinged, searched and indexed. It could be used by an on-line media outlet or even for spam blogs.

I will have to bring the magazine into class because Wired has not posted the article on its Web site.


Hawker Media


This article is about how the author gets paid to post information about commercial products on his blog. The advertising company pays a few dollars every time the product is mentioned on his blog. The author has a dilemma. Is it morally despicable to blog about a product you do not use, have no plans on using or even care about?

1 comment:

Ravi said...

I'll be interested to see this Kirsten. Informative post!