Writers and Blogs: Links for Today\’s Talk

As I mentioned yesterday, today I’m speaking at the Boulder Press Club monthly luncheon. My topic is: What Writers Really Need to Know About Blogs.

Here are a few links I expect to be mentioning in that talk…

Great places to find blogs:

IceRocket: Amy’s favorite
Technorati (including the blog finder there, which is spotty but improving)
Feedster
Google Blog search: Pretty new, not that great yet
Yahoo News: See the “Blogs beta” right-hand sidebar on the results page for any Yahoo News search.

Blogs to start with:

Contentious: Amy’s blog. Hey, you’re reading it right now!
I, Reporter: My other weblog (with Adam Glenn), on citizen journalism
MicroPersuasion: Steve Rubel’s excellent weblog on PR and citizen journalism
First Draft, one of my favorite journalism blogs by Tim Porter
Time Goes By, an excellent example of personal blogging by Ronni Bennett.

My tutorials:

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I only wish I were that strategically smart, Amy, but now that you mention it, I’ll see if I can put it into practice for frequently

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1. Ronni Bennett on November 17th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Ronni wrote: “what are you gonna do when my blog comes up and the headline today is ‘Technorati Sucks’”

Heh… what any good blogger would do — zip right over to your blog to see what you’re saying! (You’re a really smart strategic commenter, aren’t you, Ronni?)

Yep, Technorati does have its problems. It’s kind of the 800-lb gorilla of feed-based search engines, so I feel obliged to mention it, but personally I prefer IceRocket.

Now, let me go see what you wrote….

- Amy Gahran
Editor, Contentious

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2. Amy Gahran on November 16th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Thank you for the mention in your talk today, Amy, but what are you gonna do when my blog comes up and the headline today is “Technorati Sucks”

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3. Ronni Bennett on November 16th, 2005 at 1:44 pm