What makes a blog a good blog ? Actually, I have no idea. I think there are no strict rules to make a blog succesful. I read very different types of blogs (from cookin recipes to photography), so here's a short list of what I like in these blogs...
- I like blogs where the author is not trying to seduce his readers. It's a little bit complicated to explain, so I'm not going to try to explain this.
- I prefer small blogs to 10,000-readers blogs, maybe because they manage to keep something genuine. Or maybe because they're not looking for fame. Actually I don't know why.
- I like blogs which really provide contents, and by really, I mean not just copy and paste something found on a news site or on another blog, but bringing an extra-something to the information.
- I like unserious blogs (even if I do read serious blogs, sometimes).
- I wish that more of the people I know were blogging (yeah, you). Cause some of you told me that they had read my entire blog before meeting me for the first time, and I was so scared (really).
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Look at what these people are doing right now…
Twitter is a free social networking micro-blogging tool. It doesn't look like any other blog system, as all of your posts can't be longer than 140 characters. Just enough to tell people what you are doing. I've already tried to write something about Twitter on my personnal blog ; it was a few months ago, and at this time, I was just hatin' it. Since then, I'm using it quite often...
At the beginning, I thought it was just another useless web 2.0 tool, but it is actually a good tool to keep in touch with busy friends or people. Just dropping a line is ok when you don't have time to write a full e-mail, or to give a quick call. It is also ok for small announcments : hey all, party tonight 9pm, bring sthg to drink. Works well. It's a good thing to have aside a real blog, where you can write longer and more developped notes.
I think that the most interesting use of Twitter is the "on-the-go", from mobile devices (laptop, phone...). And the fresh new announcement made by Twitter this morning (on their blog) makes it more interesting, especially for professionnals. You can now track keywords and get the twitts related to these keywords on your mobile. A company could be interested in knowing if their new product or feature is discussed in the Twitter community...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Why Facebook might be the one
#1 More than a lot of social networking sites, Facebook is about real people. You're supposed to use your real first and last names, which is kind of new on the internet, where people were used to use nicknames everywhere. On Facebook you are just... you, and not just a guy with a funny (or stupid) nickname + a number aside (e.g. banana22). You're not supposed to be someone different when you're online. And your friends in Facebook are most of the time people you've already met once in your real life. Which is somehow important.
#2 People registered in Facebook are on the whole serious (even though I don't really like this term). Reading messages on walls is most of the time okay, and you don't find lots of spam or ads for companies (or gigs as on myspace) yet. As it was first designed for students, it's now starting to work as an online cv, as people can easily find about your education and your experience. It means that you won't find too young people, which means that you won't find a lol or mistakes every two words. Which is pleasant.
#3 Facebook brings a new definition of the personnal page, as all the things that composes your online id can be retrieved on your Facebook page : your blog's posts, your twitter, your all-time favourites about everything... all these things about you that you want people to know can be centralized here. Lots of new features are created everyday. On the other hand, there are way too many useless applications (wtf is this vampire application stuff ? and poke pro ?). Which makes you spend way too much time while you should be working, or doing searches for your school project. Which is evil.
#4 You'll find a lot of groups. Lots and lots. Of all kinds. These groups are more about funny stuff than serious causes. Even if most of these groups are dealing with unserious causes, it always nice to see that you're not the only one to think that myspace really sucks, that men shouldn't wear slim jeans, that reading is sexy, or that otters are cuter than kittens. Which is pretty cool.
#5 My Facebook page. Just in case.
#2 People registered in Facebook are on the whole serious (even though I don't really like this term). Reading messages on walls is most of the time okay, and you don't find lots of spam or ads for companies (or gigs as on myspace) yet. As it was first designed for students, it's now starting to work as an online cv, as people can easily find about your education and your experience. It means that you won't find too young people, which means that you won't find a lol or mistakes every two words. Which is pleasant.
#3 Facebook brings a new definition of the personnal page, as all the things that composes your online id can be retrieved on your Facebook page : your blog's posts, your twitter, your all-time favourites about everything... all these things about you that you want people to know can be centralized here. Lots of new features are created everyday. On the other hand, there are way too many useless applications (wtf is this vampire application stuff ? and poke pro ?). Which makes you spend way too much time while you should be working, or doing searches for your school project. Which is evil.
#4 You'll find a lot of groups. Lots and lots. Of all kinds. These groups are more about funny stuff than serious causes. Even if most of these groups are dealing with unserious causes, it always nice to see that you're not the only one to think that myspace really sucks, that men shouldn't wear slim jeans, that reading is sexy, or that otters are cuter than kittens. Which is pretty cool.
#5 My Facebook page. Just in case.
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