Why is there no magazine for bloggers?

I have liked the drawings of Gaping Void, and now great advice on how to use your blog to get a job.

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Dave Winer posts his first audio post.

Should I or shouldn’t I RSS? There seems to be a lot of asking this week. What got me started this time was the post on Tom Peters’ new blog. Ron Crossland asks “Will RSS really provide the average consumer BETTER content or simply more CONTENT?”

It’s not just Tom site’s questioning things. 37 Signals, Matt Mulenweg and the Online Journalism Review have all had something to say about whether to add RSS.

37 Signals laments that they won’t be able to control the design. Without a feed, I will never come to your site.

Ron, it is all about more content and more conversations and the ability to listen to more voices. Maybe RSS will change the shape of the power curve for bloggers.

For me, RSS is about the process, not the product.

I think the use of audio on blogs is going to grow. I am going to start experimenting with it here and at 800-CEO-READ.

NPR profiled a couple of audio bloggers.

Tom Peters used audio to review the book Ageless Marketing.

Have you seen other good ones?

Update: Of course, someone is blogging about audio blogging.

You want to give feedback to this thing you are really excited about and you get this:

I went to the Amazon homepage tonight and found Todd’s Plog.

Here is their explanation of a plog:

What is a Plog?

The Plog™ Service is a personalized blog. A blog is a straightforward and now widely adopted method of posting a reverse chronological diary on the Internet. Here’s a list of some of the best and most popular blogs:

* Boing Boing–A directory of wonderful things
* Gizmodo–Reviews and charts the latest gadget trends
* MobileWhack–Energetic discussions of mobile technology
* Megnut–Evolving communication through blogging since 1999
* John Robb’s Weblog–Thriving on rapid change
* Jeremy Zawodny’s blog–Daily ramblings on life and technology
* http://www.lileks.com–The Institute of Official Cheer
* Gina Smith’s BIOTECH–Tech/biotech journalist and author
* defective yeti–The musings of Matthew Baldwin, Pretty Okay Guy
* InstaPundit.com–The Blogfather
* Talking Points Memo by joshua micah marshall–A thoughtful contemplation of current affairs
* andrewsullivan.com–A respected intellectual columnist blogger
* Intel Dump–Near-real-time military analysis
* This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow–The cartoonist behind the masked penguin
* Six Apart–Six Log is the weblog of Six Apart, the company behind TypePad and Movable Type

Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. When we think we have something interesting or important to tell you, we’ll post it to your Plog.

Here was my immediate feedback to them:

*I love the feature. Please keep it on for my account.
*It needs an RSS feed now! A personalized RSS feed!
*The descriptions are a little long on the web page, but I think they will work fine in a reader.
*I would suggest only showing new products using this method. If you starting mixing in existing recommendations, I think I will start to ignore it.

Has anyone else seen this?

I was looking at my log tonight and noticed a lot of hits from business.updates.com. It seems to be a beta site of cnet that aggregates business information from all over, alot of it from blogs. I really couldn’t find any other information about the site.

I did a search on “penny” and found lots of posts from my blog. The sidebar listed white papers from a place called bnet. They seems to be a repository for business content. A free membership is required to view the content. Since I can’t resist a good penny reference, here are the articles that came up:

• A Penny (or maybe a car) for Your Thoughts: Should You Use Incentives to Get People To Fill Out Online Surveys
• Penny-Pinching Firms Add Insult to Injury
• Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: How Under-investment Can Stifle Profitable Growth

Anyone else know anything about what business.updates.com is trying to do?

A VC hits it on the head. It isn’t about your blog anymore. It is about the feed.

I was talking with my graphic designing friend Tim yesterday. We were talking about an identity for Astronaut Projects and a possible facelift here. I told him that there wasn’t much point in upgrading the look to A Penny For…, because less people are going to be visiting the site. They are going to come looking for the feed and subscribe. They may be back on a rare occasion to get some additional information. As feeds provide more stuff, visitors will visit even less.

With the first anniversary of A Penny For… coming up, we will probably spiff things up a bit around here.

I really like this post from Bill at Pheedo. He takes the 4 P’s of marketing and turns it into the 5 P’s of blogging.

1. Personal
2. Permalink
3. Publish
4. Ping
5. Participate

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The words Web logs (yes it was spelled that way), RSS, and wiki all appeared in the Wall Street Journal today.

Anil Dash has a link to the New Yorker today. The article talks about literary assistant Kate Lee and how she trolls the blogsphere looking for potential authors. Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker fame and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit are currently in the publishing pipeline.

Jeremy keeps talking about writing a book. The door is opening.

If you get the RSS feed for Worthwhile Magazine, you’ll noticed they updated things today. They went one step further than we did at 800-CEO-READ by not only adding the author but also the category to the header.

I think adding the author is a must on any multi-author blog. How do you know who is talking.

With this change, I will now starting reading Worthwhile’s feed again.