It's News to Me

Tonight I attended a gathering of a number of bloggers from here in Knoxville and the surrounding area at Calhoun's on Kingston Pike. Glenn Reynolds was kind enough to post links to the blogs of those in attendance. The affair was surprisingly well-attended as we overran the table set aside for the fifteen that the instigator, Rich Hailey, had told them to expect, so I'd guess there were at least 25 or more folks there. It was a very civil gathering, I thought, despite the fact that a group of that size represented almost every variation of political, social and cultural perspective imaginable. I'm pleased to have met them, and I've added each of their blogs to my bookmarks so that I can read them periodically and learn more about them and their respective points of view as time goes on.

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Yesterday in a series of email exchanges, Mike and Daryl and I discussed how we might modify what we are doing with the KnoxBloggers group so as to encourage more people to participate and at the same time place less demands on those with busy schedules. We came up with some ideas that we think might achieve those goals.

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Exhausted from a long day of work, late last night Victor passed along a link to an informative article in The Economist, called «Going Pro.» He asked that either Mike Neel or I share it with the rest of the Knoxbloggers group as a follow up to his presentation last Wednesday.

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Victor Agreda did a fantastic job of sharing his experiences in monetizing his blog at tonight's meeting of the Knoxbloggers group.  And he gave us several useful tips about how we might follow his lead and do the same with our blogs.  It was, to me, a very interesting meeting. 

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One of the websites that I follow through it's RSS feed is Mediashift by Mark Glaser.  In yesterday's entry, he reports that last Friday in Berlin he participated in the jury that selected the 15 Best Weblogs in the World for 2006, or «the BOBs» (Best of the Blogs), from among the 5,500 that had been nominated from all over the world.  His entry explains the various categories from which the winners were chosen and the difficulties attendant with doing so. The competition is sponsored by the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

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When I began using Firefox 2.0 as my browser the other day, I needed to replace Flock's «My News» to keep track of the RSS feeds that I monitor.  I chose to subscribe to Bloglines.  It is «a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio.  Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.»  (That quote is from their help file.)

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New products appear almost daily on the web. It's hard to keep up with what's available, but fortunately subscribing to the RSS feeds of people whom I respect helps to alert me to some of those new things.

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I see that Mike has already added the description of the agenda for the November Knoxbloggers meeting. Good for you, Mike. It looks like it might be an interesting meeting, because it deals with almost everyone's favorite subject -- making money. Check it out, and come and join us if you can. It could prove to be 2 hours well spent.

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In the interest of having this page load more quickly, I have removed the embedded video from this page and am choosing to point to it through this link instead. It is a video that explains about what Creative Commons is and how choosing to grant a Creative Commons license «refines» your rights rather than relinquishes them. I should add that, at least for me, viewing the video at this link works better than it did when the video was embedded here on my site, as there are no pauses in the streaming.

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In what I suppose will come as a shock to some who think of me as a »SuperFan» of Flock, I'm announcing that during the last week I have decided to change my default browser to Firefox 2.0, just as Tish is getting on the Flock bandwagon.  The primary reason for the change, in my case, is speed or the relative lack of it in Flock.  It may be just my system or it may be that because Flock aspires to do so much, it will always be slower than FF, but whatever the reason, there is enough of a speed difference that the extra effort required to make this change seems justified.

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