Sep 25 - Your privately public self

Notes:
Your Privately Public Self

Workshop:
Extending your digital self:

DUE:
Now that you've planted your blog, grow it:

  • claim your blog on technorati.com
  • weeding: try to respond to comments in a timely manner, watch out for spam
  • continue to write at least 1 post per week
  • experiment with promotion: post a comments on other blogs about your content, email your blog to friends and family, ask for other people to give you a boost
  • create a blog roll
  • experiment with another form of media: add images, audio or video

Links:
http://technorati.com
http://www.gabcast.com
http://bloglines.com
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)
http://www.google.com/search?q=blogger+themes
http://www.blogger-templates.blogspot.com
http://blogger-themes.blogspot.com
http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogger-hacks-series.html

Readings:

"Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice" by danah boyd

"Steal this bookmark!" by Katharine Mieszkowski
Thomas Vander Wal's definition of folksonomy.
Clay Shirky discusses folksonomy

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