Blog Day 2007

Aug 31, 2007 | blog

Blog Day 2007

Well, Blog Day 2007 is finally upon us.  If you hadn’t heard about Blog Day previously, here’s a recap.

What is BlogDay?

BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.

So I’ve chosen to participate this year, and I’ve got five blogs that I had previously not followed before, so their new to me.  I also tried to find blogs that are outside my normal genre of choice, but I was not able to do that for all of them.  Here we go:

  1. Blogumentary by Chuck Olsen –  Blogumentary is a video blog by Minneapolis video blogger Chuck Olsen.  Like many blogs, the content varies by day and by the bloggers inputs for the day.
  2. Helmet Hair Blog by Jesper Bram –  Blog about motorcycles and motorcycling.  Jesper rides, reviews, gives opinions and suggestions on his favorite topic.
  3. Wine Library TV by Gary Vaynerchuk – A blog dedicated to changing the world of wine.  With a very passionate and animated host (Gary Vaynerchuk) WLTV is a video blog that hopes to include you in the new wine world.
  4. Jason Langridge (Mr. Mobile) – Jason Langridge is a Microsoftie that works in their UK mobile division.  I’ve found innumerable interesting tidbits on Windows Mobile and mobile communications in general.
  5. Fred File by Fred Thompson & Staff – Yes, this is a political blog for one possible republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency.  I find it interesting to see how new media is being used by the current crop of candidates to reach out to voters in the upcoming 2008 election.

So that’s it.  There’s my picks for Blog Day 2007, and I’d like your feedback on them.

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My Lifestream

Aug 30, 2007 | blog

blogging Ok, yes this topic was tossed around a few days ago, and I only found the discussion yesterday.  A lifestream is simply a page that aggregates your online works, be they blog posts, videos, pictures, comments, Facebook statuses, etc…

The ability to have one place where all your online contributions to “the great conversation” are kept in chronological order.  Basically like a “river of news” format pioneered by Dave Winer.

Since a number of people, including Twitter budz Josh Bancroft (who started the idea), Dan York and Steve Rubel, have created one – I thought I’d play the follower here and give it a try.  Using Tumblr, much as the rest have, I created my lifestream blog in about 5 minutes.  Drop dead easy.  An additional 15 minutes and I had lifestream.rickmahn.com set up to take you there.

One of the streams I want to add is my coComment feed.  coComment is a comment tracking service, and does a pretty good job of it.  The only problem is that the feed includes comments by other people who’ve commented on the same post.  There is probably a way to disable that, or filter the other comments out – but I didn’t find it in the 5 minutes I allotted myself.

At any rate, I think that the lifestream idea has real value for anyone who is interested in what your perspectives are, or following you online.  Below I’ve included some other bloggers that have commented on the idea or have created their own lifestream.

So I’m curious, what do you think of the lifestream idea?

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Kent Newsome’s Swivel Feeds – Group 9

Aug 29, 2007 | blog

swivel I must say, I’m very honored to be invited to participate in Kent Newsome’s swivel feed experiment!  This swivel feed experiment was designed by Kent to find new and interesting blogs to read.  Yesterday, Kent invited an additional 12 bloggers to participate by recommending 5 bloggers for him to add to his feed list.

So without further ado, here are my five suggestions:

  1. Chris Cree
  2. Josh Bancroft
  3. Jim Long
  4. Chris Garrett
  5. Joanna Young

I just hope that my blogging pal Kent finds value in these new feeds.  Also, if you are looking for some new bloggers to follow – please do check out his swivel feeds list as there are a huge number of blogs that you may not have found before.  He also plans on publishing a final OPML

Thanks Kent!

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