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el 22-May-2008 |
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 I am in Blogger jail right now.
And the capital "b" in Blogger was intentional -- because I'm talking about Google's blogging platform.
I feel like I am in jail because I want total blogging platform portability, and Google locks me in. I want a product that will allow me to suck in everything I have written in Blogger into an independent database. And I want that for my comments as well. Then I want that database to be able to save my blog universe to Typepad, or Wordpress, or whatever. The good news: I may get this sooner than later.
Step one: Freeing my comments. Disqus is an interesting commenting system that allows you to provide much more full featured threaded discussions in place of the default commenting system on standard blogs. Disqus is particularly interesting to me because their commenting system is totally disconnected from any specific blogging platform. So your comments are not in Wordpress jail, or Blogger jail or whatever. You can take your blog to another platform and your comments can come with you.
There are problems with Disqus: If people search for a word that is in your comments, those page views will go to the Disqus web site and not to yours. That's good for Disqus and bad for me, but I've heard that they are going to fix that. I also need them to let me suck all of the old comments that people have made directly on my blog into Disqus. If they can pull that off, I'm in.
Step two: Make it easy to move my articles to any platform I want. There are decent tools for moving from Blogger to Wordpress, and for other individual platform switches, like TypePad to Movable Type. But this is, for me, only half a strategy. I'm much more interested in solutions like Profy, a blogging platform that lets you produce your blog there, but export it to other blogging platforms.
When twittering with Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, Profy's blog spokesperson, I asked her whether they were going to be able to go in the other direction -- and actually suck blogs into Profy. She wouldn't make any promises, but made it seem like a possibility.
If Profy did go ahead with that, I think it would radically change the blogging landscape, and make things much more competitive. And it would really make me feel like I own my blog, not Google.
SAI Contributor Hank Williams is a New York-based entrepreneur. He writes Why Does Everything Suck? Exploring the tech marketplace from 10,000 feet.
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| MoFuse Announce Pro Version is Free | | Yesterday Mofuse (a service that allows bloggers to launch and manage a mobile version of their blog) announced that they are making their ‘Pro’ service free for everyone.
There was previously a free version and Pro version with the paid version allowing you to point users to your own domain but now this is available to [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blogging Tools and Services
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| 12 Traits of Successful Bloggers |  I was just doing an interview on an Aussie radio station and was asked to name some traits of successful bloggers. My initial reaction was to giggle - because no two successful bloggers are the same - however as I began to answer I realized that there are some common traits among bloggers who gain [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Featured PostsMiscellaneous Blog Tips
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| iPhone Applications for Bloggers | | I know quite a few ProBlogger readers are enjoying the iPhone App store - so I thought I’d ask the question:
What iPhone Applications are most useful for bloggers?
In addition to that - what iPhone apps would you like to see developed for bloggers?
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Yesterday we looked at 12 techniques and tools for networking with other bloggers. Today I want to move on to look at some general principles of building relationships with bloggers that I think are important. I’ve covered these previously here on the blog but have updated the following from last time I [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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| 12 Tools and Techniques for Building Relationships with Other Bloggers |  Image by Michael Sarver
A recent question asked in the Q&A widget was from a reader asking me to write about:
“How to go about building relationships with other bloggers?”
Building relationships with other bloggers is an important aspect of blogging. I see it as crucial for a number of reasons:
Finding Readers - one of the best ways [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Featured PostsMiscellaneous Blog Tips
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Last week at Blog World Expo I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of bloggers of all topics, backgrounds and levels of experience. One of the things that quickly became evident as I spoke with these bloggers was that collectively the bloggers who had gathered together in Vegas for those few days [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Oct-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog TipsVideo Posts
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| Blog Blazers - Get a Glimpse in the Mind of 40 Successful Bloggers |  One of the books that has hit my mailbox lately for review is Blog Blazers - a book of interviews with 40 top bloggers exploring how to create successful blogs.
The book is by Stephane Grenier from FollowSteph.com and it features some great bloggers (some who will be familiar with many and others who you’ll [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Dec-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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