The River

So, if I don’t get inspired to blog here at BlogHer, I probably never will. Hmm…

What’s amazing to me — and, I suppose this reflects what BlogHer was supposed to be about, in the first place — is how broad and diverse the blogging world is. And this is largely just the female side. So heartening, really. And it’s so pleasant, and unusual, to be in such a huge group in which the standard introductory line is “what do you blog about?” This when the typical blog-related conversation with a “normal” person begins with “you know what a blog is, right?”

It’s obvious it’s my first BlogHer, isn’t it?

• GigaOM Web’s Weakest Link: The Power Grid «
  Thankfully, The River, and all of TypePad, are back.
  (tags: blogging electricity web)

• Let us now praise editors | Salon.com
  Finally, some respect.
  (tags: blogging writing editing)
• Blasting the Myth of the Fold - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  Do Web users scroll?
  (tags: webdesign fold advertising)
• Voice Posts: Conversational Marketing Gets a Voice at ChasNote
  Pretty cool.
  (tags: hp voicepost conversationalmarketing FM advertising onlineads)

• Podcasters Unite to Figure Out a Role for Ads - New York Times
  Advertising, the other potential revenue source for producers and publishers, does not work when marketers have no way of tracking how many times their advertisements are being heard or swapping out old advertisements once they have run their course.
  (tags: advertising podcasting)

• Crosswalk Sting Operation in Sausalito | yizzle.com
  Not tech-related, but another example of how I find out about things in our back (or front) yard through colleagues’ blogs. Gotta like that.
  (tags: blogging sausalito)

• Happy Blogiversary - WSJ.com
  “We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary.”
  (tags: blogging wsj)

• Lost… and Gone Forever: The Most Important Post of My Life
  The intimacy and community aspects of blogging continue to amaze me.
  (tags: blogging engagement proposal)
• Ten ways to get rich blogging - Times Online
  (tags: blogging monetization)
• Blogging for dosh - Times Online
  … it is hard to turn a blog into a thriving business, “but with a long-term vision, sustained hard work, a lot of creativity and some luck it’s possible . . .
  (tags: advertising blogging internet blogs monetization)
• John Battelle’s Searchblog: FM Launches Conversational Marketing Summit
  This is awesome. I’m really looking forward to it.
  (tags: conversationalmarketing cmsummit FM)

Just squared away the last loose ends in my travel arrangements. I’m thrilled to be going to Chicago at the end of the month for the BlogHer Conference. In true mommyblogging fashion, I’m taking along my kid, who will be availing himself of the reasonably-priced childcare opportunities (bless the organizers for arranging this!). One of my objectives will be to meet up with any of our FM authors that will be in attendance, but I’m also just keeping the eyes and ears open to what’s going on in the blogosphere as a whole.

Anyway, all this to say that if you’ll be there, too, drop me a line!

• Laughing Squid » Federated Media Publishing Celebrates Two Years
  Almost 1 year for me, and 2 for FM. Yippee!
  (tags: FM anniversary)