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Summary: Primer
Review: This book is great for a certain type of audience-one essentially familiar enough to care about blogs, and not so cozy with the blogging world as to be bored to tears.
A content synopsis? Others have done this...so I won't here.
But an artistic performance of the synopsis would sound a little like this:See Jane blog. Blog Jane, blog! (rinse, repeat)
Place the Blogging fork on the right-hand side of the page.
See www.whatever.com for more information. One part primer, one part etiquette book, sprinkle URLs sparingly. Blood's Book.
Done and done. Crazy thing is...I didn't hate it. (You should read a review on books I hate.)
Rating:
Summary: Primer
Review: This book is great for a certain type of audience-one essentially familiar enough to care about blogs, and not so cozy with the blogging world as to be bored to tears.
A content synopsis? Others have done this...so I won't here.
But an artistic performance of the synopsis would sound a little like this: See Jane blog. Blog Jane, blog! (rinse, repeat)
Place the Blogging fork on the right-hand side of the page.
See www.whatever.com for more information. One part primer, one part etiquette book, sprinkle URLs sparingly. Blood's Book.
Done and done. Crazy thing is...I didn't hate it. (You should read a review on books I hate.)
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Summary: This Book Kills Me
Review: This book slays me. It cuts to the point, and is sharp, cutting edge, and clearly a cut above most handbooks. Actually, between axe murders, I find it to be a soothing relief from hacking away at my stack of corpses. It provides the right amount of advice on online behavior and sticks to the purpose of blogging. It also slices through all of the rhetoric on the origins of blogs and provides some clear background on the forum.
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Summary: Useful and Charming
Review: This is a very useful guide to weblogs: how to start one, how to grow an audience, how to deal with angry email, and how to move up in technical sophistication. There's also a lot of well-put advice on etiquette, protecting your privacy, and otherwise flourishing in the blogosphere, along with some historical background that most journalistic accounts of weblogging have missed. It's very well written, and the author's personality comes through in a very engaging fashion. Highly recommended.
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Summary: An Indispensable Resource for the Would be Blogger
Review: When Rebecca Blood's "The Weblog Handbook" arrived in the mail, I was delighted to see that it was a slim volume. All of the great books on writing - Aristotle's "Poetics," Ezra Pound's "ABC of Reading," Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," - are slim volumes. I was not disappointed. Within the 195 pages that compose the book, all of the necessary territory is covered. She defines (or perhaps it is better to say she delineates) the phenomenon of the weblog, places it within the context of both Web and popular culture, and provides nuts and bolts stuff like how to purchase a domain name or choose the best weblog management tool. More importantly, she focuses on the writing process ("Weblogging is about personal expression, not about software"), and guides the reader through such weighty topics as the development of critical thinking skills, finding the appropriate voice, and building confidence in one's writing abilities. Some of this is good advices for all writers, but she also provides the basic considerations for creating content specifically for weblogs, including the appropriate way to credit links, and which conventions to follow in laying out your site to best accommodate your visitors. As a novice blogger (actually, I've learned that my site is more of a "notebook" than a "blog") I find this book to be indispensable. To be sure, there are plenty or resources on the Web for would be practitioners, but because the form is still relatively new, and there are widely varying ideas of what a weblog is, finding information online is often more confusing than helpful. "The Weblog Handbook" is comprehensive and coherent.
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