Types of Blogs
October 12th, 2006
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been churning out a lot less blog posts mainly because I’ve been so busy and I’ve not had much to write about - partially because I haven’t seriously coded in a while. I certainly think it’s a good thing to keep a blog but writing a text blog isn’t for everyone. I’ve been experimenting with linkblogs and photoblogs recently.
Linkblogs
If you come across interesting articles and sites on the internet and want to share it with your friends, a linkblog can be a good idea. Sites such as Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia.com make it dead easy. Just install the Firefox extension or the bookmarklet and you can bookmark the page and add a short comment in a few seconds. It’s almost no effort to maintain a linkblog and it’s fantastic for finding those cool links you came across a few days ago.
I’m probably adding about 8 links a day to my linkblog at http://del.icio.us/khlo. You can subscribe to a RSS feed just like you can do with blogs.
Photoblogs
Sites such as Flickr are perfect for photo blogs. If you carry your mobile phone or camera around with you lot and you just love to capture images or capture the moment, photo blogging can be really fun. I set up a Flickr account a week or two ago uploading a couple of photos and it’s been really nice getting some feedback and comments on the photos.
And of course a picture is worth a thousand words and can record life a lot better than a normal blog could.
You can subscribe to RSS feeds of individual users on Flickr which makes it dead convenient for your friends to keep up with you.
Video Blogs
Not tried video blogging yet but I’m sure it’s great fun. There’s no shortage of video bloggers on Youtube including Geriatric, Lonely Girl 15 and The Pine Cone. Video blogging will require a webcam, a ton of confidence and maybe quite a bit of time but I’m sure it’s quite rewarding and good fun too.
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The problem with Video and Photo blogs is that they are resource hungry (we have download limits here), and generally boring.
Or whatever mine is…good old fashioned text of which has no significance to anyone