I’ve added a blog to my besthike website.
Go to the hiking blog for everything hiking.
That means I now have 3 blogs: hiking, gymnastics and this one.
Category: blogs
why start a blog?
Many folks still think blogs are silly, since many posts are hastily written about trivial issues that won’t be important five minutes from now.
But this post is important. One day everyone will have something like a blog including interactive group calendars, instant messaging, shared photo and video content.
Some other format may evolve to replace the blog — but I highly doubt it. This is it.
Works for Me: Building bridges to blogs – CNET reviews
blog search – Sphere.com
Do you hate blogs?
I was initially very sceptical. The layout of many is not particularly appealing.
Millions of crappy MySpace pages? What use is that?
The real brilliance of blogging is aggregating quality content. A few blogs do have unique and original personal content. If you could only find it.
The best of field so far is Technorati. Very good, I think.
But a lot of smart folks are betting on the latest blog search engine: high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts. Check it out at Sphere.com
The coolest feature in Sphere is a simple tool called Sphere It! Bookmarklet — If you are interested in anything you are looking at on the internet, you click ONCE to be brought to a list of relevant blog posts. Wow!
Blogs: Good or Evil?
Excellent overview of the state of the blogosphere from the Washington Post.
Blogs: Good or Evil? — By Howard Kurtz
“But the biggest evil of blogs is that first flaw, blogging’s original sin: the discounting of news-gathering in favor of news analysis.”
Bloggers. Is it time to send Kurtz down the river?
Or should we give the Washington Post a few more years?
new – GymnasticsCoaching.com
I spun off a blog of interest to all coaches of acrobatic sports. Gymnastics and trampoline are fundamental to everything you do later in sports like diving and break dancing.
Go to my new blog for everything gymnastics.
Last summer at Woodward camp I coached high level mountain bikers, in-line skaters and skateboard punks. Their lack of skill on trampoline was shocking and dangerous.
Two gymnasts, the sons of former Olympian Phillip Chartrand, trained gymnastics one week — then switched to in-line skating for the next week. The in-line coaches told me they were instantly the best students due to their solid gymnastics background. Those boys were cast in the new Beatles Cirque show “LOVE”.
state of the Blogosphere
35.3 Million weblogs (blogs) are tracked on Technorati.com — the number doubling about every 6 months.
This is no fad.
I know one geek who searches Technorati because Google is too slow at finding up-to-the-second information.
blog – WordPress 2.0 not yet ready
This blog uses WordPress 1.5x
I was looking forward to upgrading to 2.0x which should allow easier posting of video clips and other important improvements.
Unfortunately 2.0, so far, seems to be a bit of a disaster.
Reasons to not upgrade to WordPress 2.0 from 1.5.2
Oops, perhaps I blogged too soon. Seems WordPress 2.0.2 is already out and I will attempt the upgrade … soonish. WordPress called it a “Security Update” but several bugfixes were of more value to me.
NOTE – I finally did update. No major problems. The new widgets feature won me over.
What is Web 2.0?
To oversimplify, Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people.
Increasingly online users generate or interact with content — blogs, podcasts, music, video — rather than simply consume it.
The web rather than the desktop will be the dominant platform. Interactivity is key.
I’m agree. These days I hardly ever open Word, Excel or Powerpoint.
I update this blog online from any computer, for example.
Rick McCharles 