Booknolia

Lately I have been reading about online conversations and blogs. My first book about online conversations was The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. I think I read it in late 2000 after first following their website back in 1999 with their 95 Theses. I encourage you to read those theses written almost 9 years ago. Still fresh after a decade of change!

There is another book I picked up last week from the famous blogger (and a pioneer) Robert Scoble, co-authored with Shel Israel. With a great cover design and catchy title, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers is about blogging and why it will revolutionize business communication. I haven’t finished reading it yet but if you are still wondering why to blog, you should read this book.

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I came across a pretty good diagram of how blogs are working. Unfortunately it’s not easy to view it online since once again Wired magazine is trying to make things artful :-( See the article by Frank Rose. Great work!

There are some very good books on how to start your own blog, how do blogs work, or how to promote your blog. I browsed “Blogging for Dummies” (ed. 2008) at a local bookstore last week and it’s nicely written. It’s a good start.

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