Blogging workshop

Yesterday, at the invitation of a colleague, I gave two lectures on blogging to journalism students at Guelph-Humber. They were smart kids, and a few of them could no doubt have given the lecture themselves. But it was interesting to present blogging from the perspective of a working journalist and potential employer, and hear their questions.

Here’s a list of links to sites I discussed. What would you add?

http://del.icio.us/
Social bookmarking site - bookmark pages and access them anywhere

http://www.cbc.ca/archives
Where I work

http://www.insidethecbc.com
The official CBC blog

http://www.gorbould.com/blog
My blog

http://www.boingboing.net/
Links blogging: A directory of wonderful things

http://twitter.com/
Micro-blogging: What are you up to right now?

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/
Photo-blogging: Sam Javanrouh’s beautiful Daily Dose of Imagery photo blog

http://www.torontoist.com/
Collaborative blogging: All about Toronto

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/fifawomens/blog-paul/
CBC journalism blog: Erin Paul blogs for CBC Sports from China

http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/2006/07/citizen-kane-journalism/
Your subjects are watching: I blog and link to Jay Rosen; he gives me a piece of his mind

http://www.technorati.com
Getting noticed: The definitive blogging index/search engine/ranking tool

http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/
World’s top 100 blogs

http://blogsearch.google.com
Google’s beta search for blogs

http://www.blogmad.net
A blog traffic exchange tool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Armstrong
Wikipedia on “getting Dooced” (fired over something you write on the internet)

http://www.dooce.com/
Heather Armstrong’s new site

http://www.blogger.com/
Blogger - one of the easiest ways to start blogging, free

http://wordpress.org/
A free and very customizable blogging program/site. This is what I use

http://www.movabletype.org/
Another popular blogging platform - what CBC uses

http://www.problogger.net/
All about making money from blogs

http://payperpost.com/
A typical site that pays bloggers for “sponsored posts”

http://searchengineland.com/070109-141617.php
http://www.toprankblog.com/2006/03/blog-optimization/
More on blog optimization

http://www.archive.org/index.php
Archive.org: archiving the internet (check out the WayBack Machine)

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 09-13-2007 | 01:09 PM
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