While recently watching the show Diggnation, one of the hosts, Kevin Rose, stated that he has been thinking about redirecting his personal blog to his Twitter page. At this point the other host on the show, Alex, told Kevin he didn’t think the idea was a good one. Alex further explained that Kevin would loose money from the ads which his personal site contains. The debate brought up a good debate, should you give up blogging for Tweeting?
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RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds have become really popular in within blogging circles. Using an RSS reader, a user can read content from multiple websites/sources without having to visit the actual source.
From a blogging perspective, this means that a blogger can read all of their blogroll/blogging associates’ posts within one place without having to go to multiple sites to read them separately. This would be a big inconvenience if a blogger has a large blogroll, or a lot of blogs to read.
I have found that subscribing to my blogroll’s RSS feeds are a great way to keep updated with their happenings. If you have a medium-large amount of blogs that you want to be updated with on-the-go, I would highly recommend subscribing to their RSS feeds.
With this premise in mind, the more the blogosphere grows, everyone’s blogroll with grow with it. Will we one day get to a point where we do not actually post to a blog, but post to a place where it will automatically push the post through an RSS stream, and the post not really having a central location?
What are your thoughts on the future of RSS-related blogging?
If you are new to the blogging scene and looking for ways to get involved in the blogosphere without spending money on servers and domains, I have listed a a few popular services below that will get you started…
If anybody out there has any favorite free blogging services that they use, feel free to post them in our comment section. Please also leave any feedback regarding the above services.
Blogging has really emerged in this past year (2008). It has become more of a household term, and been more widely used than any other years past. This is because of blogging being mentioned immensely through various mediums such as social media/networking, TV, and radio.
One of the biggest ways that blogging has emerged this is year is the election. Various bloggers and blog circles came into the limelight to help persuade/sway your decision on political aspects, such as CNN, and NPR (National Public Radio).
Even the President political candidates had blogs integrated within their own campaign websites (e.g. Barack Obama and John McCain).
According to Trendpedia, there were approximately 8,687 election-related posts made on the day of the returns. That may seem like a small number, but that is a lot of bloggers being active on such an eventful day.
With this being said, whatever is happening in the media, expect that it will be blogged about. For example, a Blagojevich blog dedicated to the Illinois seat scandal, and New Years Eve @ Times Square, NYC.
What will be the trends and direction of blogging in 2009? We shall see!
Really Simple Syndication (often called “RSS”) feeds have become a growing trend within the blogosphere. Most blogs out there do have RSS feeds enabled within their content management system, allowing various blog readers to keep up-to-date with blog posts on the fly. This is mainly done through hand-held devices like cellphones and PDAs.
RSS feeds can also provide a way for you to view all the blogs that you read in one place, allowing readers a way to manage the numerous blog posts into just one system. To “subscribe” to the RSS feed on a blog which you desire, just click on the RSS icon (
) within the address bar of your browser.
The personal computer can also view and read RSS feeds as well. With companies like FeedBurner, RSS feeds have become mainstream within blogging circles.
I have provided a list below of a few free readers that you can download or utilize to view RSS content:
If you have any favorite RSS feed readers that you use, feel free to share them in the comments of this post.
Happy Blogging! 
Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to describe what they are doing in less than 140 characters is becoming quite a companion for bloggers and the blogosphere.
You may even think that it even might be considered “a mini blog” since you are sharing the events in your life with fellow Twitter users that are following your account.
A trend that has been happening is that Twitter users have been using their account to spread the word about the happenings on their blog. You will often see users in the Recent Updates feed mentioning something like “New blog post!” followed by a link to their blog (mostly seen as a TinyURL redirect link). This method can also be an alternative to an RSS feed as people will “Tweet” the update of their blog right after it is posted.
If you have been blogging for quite a while, and have a vast amount of readers and blog partners, most likely that the majority of them will have an account there.
What are your thoughts on Twitter in relation to the blogosphere?
