Thursday Thirteen #7: 13 Things I’d barely thought about two weeks ago

Aug 8, 2007

Thursday Thirteen #7: 13 Things I’d barely thought about two weeks ago

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I blame the Blogathon for plunging me head-first into the flow of the blogosphere. ;) The last two weeks have been an awesome learning experience and quite revealing. There is so much out there!

Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME

Technorati tags: I had to ask a friend to explain about Technorati because I didn’t understand what they did/what they were for. Now, I have plugins that allegedly do all that stuff automagically.
Schmoozing (at least in this context) and, specifically the Power of Schmooze Awards. Who’d have thunk that one could schmooze online?
Blog Carnivals. Related content spread over dozens of websites. What a concept.
Bloglines. A place to read your feeds.
Automated blogrolls, like at Blogrolling.com. Suitably inspired, I started two motorcycle blogrolls yesterday.
Paid reviews. I was aware of pay-per-post and wasn’t too keen on the idea, but paid reviews seems more legit. Not that it matters as my site doesn’t have enough traffic for it, yet.
John Chow and John Cow. What a funny guy John Chow is. And what a funny send-up John Cow is. And both sites are quite revealing and informative, too.
The concept of Link Love. As far as I can tell, these are posts where you share good sites with the world.
The blogosphere. I never talked about the blogosphere before.
My Blog Log. Build your own online community. As far as I understand it, it’s a blog reading service where you can build up a public community of readers.
FeedBurner. An aggregator of feeds which does certain tricks that your standard run-of-the-mill feed can’t, such as telling you how many readers you don’t have.
Full feeds vs. partial feeds. When I was sending out full feeds, the Google alerts for my site were sending me to A Certain Big Site, where my feed is syndicated. I didn’t like that, so I went to partial feeds. But I hear that this is a Bad Thing, so I’m trying to figure out what to do about it.
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47 Comments, Comment or Ping

Chelle Y. (4 comments.)

I think that the internet has so many amazing things! I sstill have so much to learn about it too!

http://www.chelleyoung.com/index.php/archive/thursday-thirteen-70-thirteen-random-favorites/

Aug 8th, 2007
Joely (6 comments.)

Welcome to the Blogosphere! It definitely sucks you in. :-) Happy TT!

Aug 8th, 2007
PRACTiCAL CHiCK (1 comments.)

I love my blog log.

Aug 8th, 2007
Susan Helene Gottfried (21 comments.)

Welcome to the Blogosphere! It’s a fun place and Joely’s right — it sucks you in. Hope you’ll come get sucked in at MY place. *wink*

Seriously. Have fun with blogging; it’s a fun thing to do and a neat community to be part of.

Aug 8th, 2007
Polliwog (48 comments.)

WOOO HOOOO!!! You’ve been bloggified my dear.

:-)

Aug 8th, 2007
burntofferings (2 comments.)

Hey what a great list of resources, some are new to me even!

Our list is up as well if you want to stop by…

Aug 8th, 2007
MamaLee (4 comments.)

It’s such an amazing place, isn’t it?

Happy TT!

Aug 8th, 2007
Suprina (4 comments.)

I love blogging and have already “meet” several wonderful bloggers!

Great list!
Happy TT!

Aug 8th, 2007
Comedy Plus (5 comments.)

Well, you look like you are on your way. Don’t forget Alexa and pagerank. Got to know that stuff too. Also need to know how much your blog is worth. Don’t worry about all that stuff. Doing memes helps your blog traffic. Have a great TT. :)

Aug 8th, 2007
Nicholas (17 comments.)

Great list! I have been blogging for over a year and I still have no idea what Technorati actually does; I just add names to the tag field becuase my wife tells me it’s a good thing to do. I don’t know what trackbacks are or how you feed things. I just enjoy blundering round in blogland while the intelligent people make use of all the fancy stuff.

Aug 8th, 2007
Loriq (2 comments.)

Great list…I’ll have to check them out. Technorati is very cool….you can see how you rank:)

Aug 8th, 2007
pussreboots (157 comments.)

Thanks for the link love. :) So what is MyBlogLog and why should I join?

And happy TT.

Aug 8th, 2007
Lori (4 comments.)

Hmmm, some of those I don’t know about and I’ve been blogging 3 years or so. You learn something new every day on the internets.

I love Bloglines!

Aug 8th, 2007
Angela at mommy bytes (1 comments.)

Nice list. I had heard of John Chow and John Cow but never went to visit until I saw them here. Very funny stuff on that John Cow!

BTW, go with full feeds, I personally hate partial feeds and often unsubscribe when I see them in my bloglines.

Aug 8th, 2007
Star (2 comments.)

Very cool.

Aug 8th, 2007
Damozel (3 comments.)

I’ve been blogging for three years, but the blog referenced here is only three months old and as my colleague keeps telling me, learning to work the blogosphere has a big learning curve. We really put thought into using these tools and so far it seems to be paying off…so keep up the good work.

Aug 8th, 2007
thebluestbutterfly (8 comments.)

I have heard of & use most of these. I don’t like the hassle of some Blogosphere tools though. I have a decent audience on my blog but would like a bigger audience. :-)

Aug 8th, 2007
Robin (26 comments.)

Sounds like you’ve jumped right in with both feet. Just start swimming, the water’s fine.

Aug 8th, 2007
Rasmenia (8 comments.)

Informative! Some of these I knew about 2 weeks ago…but some of these I didn’t know about 10 minutes ago. :)

Aug 9th, 2007
samulli (1 comments.)

I have been blogging on and off for about 7 years now, but I still don’t know anything about half of these things.
But then again, I never really considered myself as part of the blogosphere, so I figure I didn’t miss out on much so far. ;o)

Aug 9th, 2007
Sparky Duck (3 comments.)

Be careful, once your fully hooked, its hard to escape. :)

Aug 9th, 2007
Dawn (5 comments.)

Well, you are way ahead of me. This is my 2 month blogiverary. My husband knows the terms, I just know what buttons to push, ha ha.

Aug 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Chelle — no kidding! I’ve been online for a long time, but this wider network is something I’m only just starting to get into.

Aug 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Hi Joely! No kidding!

I have actually been online for many, many years and blogging for a few, but through LiveJournal. It’s only very recently that I started venturing into the “outside” world of blogging. I like.

Aug 9th, 2007
Marina (86 comments.)

Mind-~~numbing~~boggling, isn’t it?

My 13 is actually over on the farm blog (gotta get the book one typed, probably after I get Anthony down for a nap) for now:

http://texasfarmwife.blogspot.com/2007/08/thursday-13-2-13-things-i-have-learned.html

Aug 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Practical Chick: well, that’s good to know. ;)

Thanks for visiting :)

Aug 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Susan G: I’d been planning to add you to my feed reader for a while, and just did. While I’ve had an online presence for a very long time (since 1996!) , it’s only recently that I started wetting my feet in life-outside-LiveJournal blogging.

Aug 9th, 2007
Guusje (1 comments.)

I’m still having problems figuring our RSS feeds!

Aug 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Hi Polli :)

It certainly looks that way. ;)

Btw, I signed up for my own gravatar, but it doesn’t seem to be working…is there anything you had to do to get yours working, or did it just eventually clue itself in?

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Burntofferings: Neat! I’ll come take a look now.

It’s been quite a learning curve the last week or so.

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

MamaLee: Certainly is. :)

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Suprina: me too :)

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

ComedyPlus: I’ve actually been blogging at LJ for a few years, and have had a web presence since 1996. But I started my WP blog back in, oh, January–it seemed like a logical next step. Then I was only skimming the surface, but since the Blogathon I really seemed to have been drawn in and I’m loving every minute!

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Nicholas: thanks.

I think typepad already has its own feed, and you can probably put up buttons to advertise it. I wouldn’t know how to do it myself (though I believe that FeedBurner is a service that does that for you.)

Technorati is a sort of blog catalog/popular contest. The tags filter you into searches. So let’s say you tag a post “food”–if someone searches for food your post should appear there.

Trackbacks work like this: if someone blogs about you and mention your link, either your home page or a specific post, they can (but don’t always) send a trackback. It appears like a comment, and basically assures the world that people are talking about you. It can be a nice way to check your traffic.

Aug 11th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Lori: Yes, I have fun with Technorati too. Got a long way to go though. ;)

Thanks for visiting!

Aug 13th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Angela: You’re right about the full feeds. I’ve since figured out how to be able to shorten the stuff on my home page while still having a full feed, so I’m pleased with that end result.

Thanks for visiting :)

Aug 13th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Thanks, Star. :)

Aug 13th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Damozel: no kidding, but I think that if you do put the effort in it really can work out :)

Aug 13th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

I think that as you work your way through you pick out the tools that work best for you. At least, one hopes so ;)

Aug 13th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Robin–indeed :)

I like warm waters.

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Rasmenia–cool!

Btw, I can’t figure out how to subscribe to your feed. What is the feed url?

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Samulli: whatever rocks your boat. :)

Thanks for visiting!

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Ooh–you’re a Book Crosser? Cool. I’m WhiteRaven13 over there.

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Sparky Duck–I’m not trying to escape. It’s wonderful :)

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Dawn: Happy bloggiversary, and thanks for visiting!

Keep playing and all the pieces will eventually click into place. :)

Aug 15th, 2007
Linda R. Moore

Marina, yeah, but I’m loving it :)

Aug 15th, 2007
Rasmenia (8 comments.)

There is a link on the left-hand side for email or rss subscription. Or, you can try this one:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Rasmenia

Thanks for reading. :)

Aug 16th, 2007