Calling all bloggers!!!

Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
edited November 21, 2005 in The Big Picture
So I'm thinking about setting up a blogging ring or some kind of blogging network for all of us smugmug bloggers. This'll do a couple of things. First, it'll bring us together more as a community of photographers (and bloggers!) and second, it'll help gain more exposure for both our blogging and our photography.

If you're not a blogger currently, you should really consider it. First off, links are a big part of what drives google rankings. Obviously, I'm not advocating that we all go out there and link each other's blogs like crazy or anything (that would actually cause the search engines to put you lower in the rankings). But since we're all currently blogging, we may as well have a network to go along with it. Second, with a blog you can get exposure in other ways with sites like technorati. Exposure to your blog = exposure to your smumug site. Third, you can keep everyone informed about your latest updates and you can have more detailed information about who you are and what you do and why people should buy stuff from you (or just look at your pics). I'm sure there are other great reasons that I can't think of too.

Anyhow, if you're interested just reply to this thread and we'll get something started. Everyone is invited to join in with this (including chris, don, jt, andy, and whomever else from Smugmug).
Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    Im gettin' old.

    Ok guys what is blogging ?

    Is it just an area that people write stuff about themselves or a particular subject ?

    Gus
  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Im gettin' old.

    Ok guys what is blogging ?

    Is it just an area that people write stuff about themselves or a particular subject ?

    Gus
    Yeah,what Gus saidne_nau.gif
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Im gettin' old.

    Ok guys what is blogging ?

    Is it just an area that people write stuff about themselves or a particular subject ?

    Gus
    Gus,

    I'm not real clear on this myself, but from what I gather it's kinda like sitting around the bar / pub, drinking, and telling stories. Well....except for the drinking part. :D

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,250 moderator
    edited November 18, 2005
    Smugblogs
    Here are some...

    http://blogs.smugmug.com/
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  • flyingpylonflyingpylon Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    Blogging is whatever you want it to be. A blog (short for Web Log) is essentially just a chronological collection of journal entries. That journal can be personal, business-related, focused on a specific topic, or whatever. It's a catchy new name, but it's certainly not rocket surgery or anything. There are lots of programs and services now that make it very easy for people to publish a blog on the web. Many blogs accept reader comments, link to other blogs, and things like that.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    flyingpylon wrote:
    Blogging is whatever you want it to be. A blog (short for Web Log) is essentially just a chronological collection of journal entries. That journal can be personal, business-related, focused on a specific topic, or whatever. It's a catchy new name, but it's certainly not rocket surgery or anything. There are lots of programs and services now that make it very easy for people to publish a blog on the web. Many blogs accept reader comments, link to other blogs, and things like that.
    Ahh thanks FP/sam...i wasnt sure.

    I usually just google anything i want to know about but try googling that & you will go into melt down. I read pages & pages of stuff that bounced all over the place without a definition.
  • Shay StephensShay Stephens Registered Users Posts: 3,165 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2005
    Well then...
    I want blogging to be a long back, neck, and scalp massage mwink.gif
    flyingpylon wrote:
    Blogging is whatever you want it to be.
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited November 19, 2005
    Sam wrote:
    Gus,

    I'm not real clear on this myself, but from what I gather it's kinda like sitting around the bar / pub, drinking, and telling stories. Well....except for the drinking part. :D

    Sam
    Says who? rolleyes1.gif
    www.angelo.smugmug.com

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  • flyingpylonflyingpylon Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2005
    Angelo wrote:
    Says who? rolleyes1.gif
    Yeah, once you start reading blogs you'll assume many of them started with drinking and went on from there! :D
  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2005
    flyingpylon wrote:
    Angelo wrote:
    Sam wrote:
    Gus,

    I'm not real clear on this myself, but from what I gather it's kinda like sitting around the bar / pub, drinking, and telling stories. Well....except for the drinking part. :D

    Sam
    Says who? rolleyes1.gif
    Yeah, once you start reading blogs you'll assume many of them started with drinking and went on from there! :D
    An excellent case in point, probably one of the best opensource/mac blogs out there is DrunkBlog, written by DrunkenBatman, who recently put together one heck of a developer roundtable many are already refering to as DrunkCon '05 which was followed by a post-talk at a nearby bar.

    Personally, I've considered blogging on several occasions, but every time I take a look at the options out there for sites, well, I'm just not impressed. It's kinda like what I felt about all the photo sharing sites, untill I found smugmug. Personally, I'd really like a blog that is tightly integrated to my smugmug galleries.... like maybe built by smugmug and integrated into the service. (hint hint mwink.gif)
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2005
    cabbey wrote:
    An excellent case in point, probably one of the best opensource/mac blogs out there is DrunkBlog, written by DrunkenBatman, who recently put together one heck of a developer roundtable many are already refering to as DrunkCon '05 which was followed by a post-talk at a nearby bar.

    Personally, I've considered blogging on several occasions, but every time I take a look at the options out there for sites, well, I'm just not impressed. It's kinda like what I felt about all the photo sharing sites, untill I found smugmug. Personally, I'd really like a blog that is tightly integrated to my smugmug galleries.... like maybe built by smugmug and integrated into the service. (hint hint mwink.gif)
    There is already a smugmugger that has built a wordpress plug-in that integrates tightly into smugmug (it's in the early phases still I think, but he's working on it). This is all information that we can get out to a blogging community if we had one.

    Which apparently we don't just yet.

    Well, this post will stay active for a little while so maybe some of our blogging friends on here will see it. Blogging = links. Links = higher google ratings. Higher google ratings = what we all want. It's a big circle jerk and it'd be worth everyone's while to take part in it. My previous blog was WAY more popular than it should have been because I was on list with a similar intent. There were something like 150 or 200 bloggers that all linked to the other bloggers in the group via a blogroll. So every time a blog was published from one of those 200 people, all the other people got free links from that person. Take this out to 200 people posting multiple times per week and you've got a heck of a thing going for you.

    Even my current smugmug site (which I linked to from my old blog - which is linked to by all those other blogs) gets fantastic residuals STILL from this.

    Anywho, maybe people'll want to do this, maybe not.
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
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