Recently, our BlogBurst editors interviewed BlogBurst member, Austin blogger, mother and haiku evangelist Kari Anne Roy. You can find her blog here: Haiku of the Day
Q - How did you decide to create Haiku of the Day after working in advertising and marketing? How do you think your writing sets you apart from some other popular ‘mommy blogs’?
A - When I started the blog I had just made the transition from bringing my son to work with me full-time to staying at home and freelancing. I naively thought that once I quit my job I’d have time to do the elusive Other Things you think people who don’t work outside the home do all day. Little did I know that these Other Things included mostly babbling to myself and cleaning spat out carrots from my son’s hair. Haiku of the Day was my panicked SOS to try and elicit some adult contact.
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Eric Roach is part of the editorial team at BlogBurst. He has written and spoken extensively about beer and music, and has bands, breweries, and broken domains scattered across the state of Texas. He loves xml, long walks, and your blog.
What has the editorial process been like since starting a month ago?
I have been having a blast. I’m actually the lead recruiter (and the new guy) so I research blogs on some harder-to-find topic areas based on what the publishers are requesting. Every day it’s like traveling the world. Just yesterday, I was stuck in traffic in Atlanta, traipsing through the high-fashion district of Sydney, checking out the latest gizmos in Tokyo, and deep in the Baltimore music scene. I am amazed by how good the blogs are and have always admired the sheer honesty of bloggers.
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Eileen Smith helps manage the editorial/blog selection process with BlogBurst. You can read her fantastic take on Texas and national politics at In the Pink Texas blog. Here are Eileen’s thoughts on BlogBurst, blogging and breakfast cereal:
What has the editorial process been like since starting a month ago?
When we first started recruiting people for BlogBurst, we had definite blog topics in mind based on our publisher’s needs. As more blog requests for invites have poured in, we’ve been pretty overwhelmed - in a good way - with high-quality blogs that stand out from the crowd. As the network opens up, we’ll be developing closer relationships with individual bloggers to help them get noticed and published. It’s been a real learning experience for the editors and the bloggers.
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New capability for BlogBurst Bloggers. You might remember filling out a Byline for your blog when you first added it to the network. Bylines are your way to entice readers on BlogBurst publishers’ sites to come back to your blog. Unfortunately, Bylines had a 50 character limit which we felt was just too short to do your blogs justice. As a result, we’ve updated the Byline field on your blog profile. The field is now labeled Short Description and can hold up to 200 characters.
Please make sure to re-visit your blog’s profile on BlogBurst today by logging into BlogBurst, clicking on your blog and then hitting the EDIT button in the red divider bar to edit your blog’s profile. Craft a new, catchy byline by entering text into the Short Description field. Don’t forget to add an avatar image for your blog profile while you are there. The graphic below depicts how blogger attribution will look on publisher sites.
Hear-ye, hear-ye, I do declare, we have 500 activated bloggers in the system after just one month of existence, making March 21st not only the first day of Spring, but also a day in history for the BlogBurst Network.
Congratualtions bloggers. It is a proud day.
Recently, the BlogBurst team spoke with renowned blogger and BlogHer co-founder Jory Des Jardins about her thoughts on the blogging revolution and the social impact and significance of blogs and female bloggers, specifically:
What was your mission in launching BlogHer?
BlogHer was conceived in what I consider to be a petri dish of change for women online. There were a number of instigating factors: those controversial remarks by Harvard President Larry Summers about women’s natural competencies not being in the sciences, a Newsweek article that raised the question of whether the Blogosphere was being dominated by techy white
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Wednesday in Austin, Texas, and the SXSW Interactive Festival 2006 has come to a close. Our Blogger Lounge/trade show booth was received nicely by bloggers and SXSWi attendees alike. Pictures coming soon of the booth and the party.
It was a fascinating three days on the trade show floor, as well as fun and blissfully tiring.
Sunday was our big bash at Club de Ville - our way of saying “thank you” to all you Web 2.0, open content and blogger enthusiasts who have made our jobs worthwhile and fulfilling.
We will have some of the blogosphere chatter about BlogBurst in a future post, but here’s some of the latest traditional and new media mentions of BlogBurst.
3/02/06 Publish Five Questions For: Online Media Pioneer Steve Outing
2/27/06 Red Herring Old Media Loves New Media
2/22/06 eWeek: Intermedia What BlogBurst Means to Blogs and Journalism
2/21/06 Adotas BlogBurst Offers Content Sharing Network
2/21/06 Marketing VOX Newspapers to Syndicate Blog Content
2/21/06 Website Services Magazine Bursting with BlogBurst
2/19/06 Search Engine Journal BlogBurst Distributes Blog Content to Traditional Media
Your friendly support guy here. Here is a list of the four most common issues that new bloggers to the BlogBurst system encounter and tips for resolving those problems. Answers after the break
- My blog will not verify
- My invitation code does not work
- I forgot my password
- I receive errors when I try to add/update my profile
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Austin.SXSW.Bloggers Rule!
We are very excited about next week’s SXSW Interactive show – here in our beloved hometown, Austin (TX).
If you are in Austin for the show, you are in for a real treat. Pluck will have a large presence at the exhibit hall (Austin Convention Center) with our blogger lounge. Come in and take a load off as we will have couches for lounging, wireless access, film clips from all the big films selected for judging at the SXSW film showcase and great giveaways for bloggers. You can also see us during speaking panels and parties to learn more about BlogBurst and our popular social bookmarking service, Shadows
For more information Austin, SXSW and Pluck, please visit our SXSW page and we will see you there!
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