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World Press Freedom Day Includes Bloggers!

From PJNet Today:

Want to run an intervew with the Dalai Lama or Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, on your weblog? You can thanks to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and a little thank you to the PJNet.

Wan is offering newspapers around the world interviews, photos, graphics, cartoons and background information promoting World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2004.

Check here for more info!

A Superb Resource!

The Survival guide for the low-end blogger at Tobacco Road Fogey is packed with realistic points every new blogger should be thinking about. It's a worthwhile read for those with some numbers of posts under their belts, too! Here's an example:

Rule Number 3 — Fulltime hits require fulltime work. Well, maybe it’s not quite that drastic, depending on how we count fulltime work.

A better way of saying it might be “Part-time blogging leads to part-time readers.”

In other words, if you can only commit a few hours a week to your blogging, don’t expect your hit counter to spin around the clock. Bring your blogging expectations into line with your tangible commitment to blogging. You’ll get back what you put into it, but not at first and only once you have established yourself.

consumer view of outsourcing

I am not a happy camper. I've about had it with tech support employees who do not speak clear, unaccented English. Conversely, they don't often understand me, either. I am sick of repeating and repeating myself, and sick of dealing with tech support people who are so unqualified you can hear them
turning the pages of the manual even over transpacific telephone.

Carnival of the Vanities #84

Good Wednesday and welcome to the Carnival of the Vanities #84!

I'm very pleased to be hosting this today. I've been waiting for this since November! One of the things I like best about the Carnival is the variety. So many ideas -- some are new to me, some I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, and some are old friends.

If this is the first time you've visited WOLves, please hang around for a bit after the Carnival and take a look around. There's a lot here for aspiring writers, published writers, as well as new and experienced bloggers. In the spirit of the blogging community, my focus is on sharing, and giving back as much as I can to this community which has given me so much help and support!

Without further ado, here is this week's crop of interesting, bizarre, but never pedestrian stuff, posted in the order received --

Bloggers, Journalism and Everything

I've pretty much avoided the issue of whether bloggers are journalists or not. That's because in my mind, the question itself differs, depending on who's asking. Which is why there probably won't be a definitive answer. Sometimes the person asking is coming from a standpoint of, "Are bloggers a threat to the media industry?" Sometimes it's more about, "Can a blogger reasonably expect to have more readers and be more authoritative than a hard-copy newspaper?" or even "Are bloggers better-qualified or more ethical than paid reporters?"

The answer can be always yes, or always no, depending on who is having the conversation, and why they feel the need to discuss it.

References at Bloglines

Bloglines is all about ease of use. In fact, it was Mark Fletcher at Bloglines who told me, "You shouldn't have to think about your RSS feed", which gave me a whole new way of explaining it all to the uninitiated.

Now they've got something new. When you read a post in the aggregator, it tells you what other blogs are referencing that post. No need to go and research it, it's right there. For me this is a good thing, because I've never quite got my head around the procedure at Technorati.

Carnival of the Vanities comes to WOLves!

This week, the Carnival comes to town. Send us your best most recent post at dsrtlite -at- mindspring.com with "Carnival Submission" in the subject line!

THANKS!

Calista's Wednesday Links

Wednesday Links ~*~ 21 April 2004

The Forensic Science Resource Page
The Tenneesse Forensics and Criminal Law Resource Link Center.

The Mysterious Home Page
A must visit for mystery readers, writers and those who aspire.
Great links.

One Look Dictionary Search
Use for definitions, and translations for single words and phrases. Word of the day listed at bottom of home page. Thanks Lyne!

Getting Noticed in the Crowded Blogosphere

Probably the biggest question I’ve seen so far in my reading of various blogs and etc. related to BloggerCon is: How do I get noticed?

Although some people believe it’s now impossible to get noticed or develop a large readership due to the sheer number of blogs, or that you need to “know somebody,” or have an advertising budget, I think it is possible to be noticed and be successful without all those things. I also think that it will always be possible, regardless of the number of blogs, but you need to commit time and energy to doing it.

BloggerCon II -- a collection of links

Check here to see if you've missed anything!

Also the Feedster link.