Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
I had some platform migration misadventures today, I lost a post and a few comments and for a few hours my site redirected to a cute site with cartoons I cannot find any longer. My sister got it worse: she lost 2 days of work on her site… Apologies to the authors of the...
I still have a few session notes to post, but I wanted to share some thoughts on Blogher before everybody moves to the next tech/web conference and Blogher becomes ancient history. Let’s start with my gratitude for Jory, Elise, and Lisa for making the conference so amazingly affordable (a room for $75 a night?...
(Attending the session: Building your audience with Elise Bauer (Simply Recipes, Learning Movable Type) – blogged live by Whitney) Three pillars of building an audience: create great content, engage your community, use technology. Content The most successful blogs are useful, entertaining, timely, or a combination of the three. Did I mention useful? You need...
Amy Gahran created a Blogher06 wiki with links to posts about Blogher (session notes and commentaries). You can visit and contribute links. Judging from the Flickr photo stream, one of the most photographed subject at Blogher06 was the Yahootini (A Yahoo!-style martini). Yahoo!’s sponsorship (free dinner and cocktails) was much more effective than Microsoft’s...
People with eating disorders (especially girls) have a biased perception of their body. They feel fat and unfit and no feedback (from a mirror, from parents, or from friends) seems able to shake the perception that there is something wrong with their body. Their body needs to be controlled, shaped and disciplined. At the...
(Attending the session: Ten types of Web writing with Lisa Stone and Lynne d. Johnson – blogged live by mir) This session addressed the differences between writing for print and writing for blogs. Lynne listed the need for a conversational tone, increased personalization, and differentiation from the “corporate” voice as the most important changes...