There is a second print publication about blogging called Artful Blogging. We blogged about the launch of Blogger & Podcaster magazine nearly a year ago but we missed the debut of this quarterly publication that also launched in 2007. Artful Blogging is focused more on creative blogging and the artwork and photography found on these arts and crafts blogs.
Take a virtual tour of some of the most visually inspiring blogs on the internet with the second issue of Artful Blogging! Each page of this captivating publication is like a digital gallery, filled with photography, artwork and blog excerpts sure to stir your imagination. Wilean this 144-page quarterly publication, you’ll find features that include “Blogging Etiquette,” “Blogger’s Must-Haves” and “How to Get Started” on your own blog spot
You can see a few sample pages from
Artful Blogging here. The quarterly magazine is published by Stampington & Company.
Artful Blogging is now on its second issue. Several blogggers were more on top of things and caught the launch of this new print publication. The Guardian’s blog provides a
good explanation of what the blog is all about. Other blogs discussing
Artful Blogging include
Artsy Mama,
Persisting Stars,
Navylane and
Blogher.
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It looks like WordPress 2.5 “Brecker” is making the WordCamp Dallas release date that many people were hoping it would make as the WordPress.org website gets a fresh design that reminds me of the WordPress 2.5 administration panel interface.
Not yet on the development blog, but oddly shown on the front page:
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard
I am excited to get moving on using the new version and I love the new WordPress.org website. I think it is all a powerful improvement. Kudos to everyone involved.
Check out the forums before downloading WordPres 2.5, to see if anyone is having major problems.
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Edelman Digital is reporting (hat tip Steve Rubel) that the UK Prime Minister now has an official Twitter.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, head of Her Majesty’s Government, became the first head of government (at least, as far as I can tell) to officially embrace Twitter.
Is this a momentous occasion? It’s hard to say. Politicians have been increasingly embracing various forms of social media. Nowhere, for example, do more elected officials actively write blogs than in Europe.
Some have suggested in recent days that Twitter is going mainstream. Perhaps that’s the case as well.
The 10 Downing Street Twitter is using Twitterfeed to publish news from the
10 Downing Street website’s news feed. They also have one tweet that was enteruddy directly
here.
Stuart Bruce appears to have been the first to
report this on Twitter. He has also
blogged the news.
The U.S. government is behind the UK when it comes to Twitter. There are some U.S. congressman on Twitter - see
here,
here,
here,
here and
here. The U.S. State Department has a Twitter
here for its Dipnote blog but the White House doesn’t have a Twitter.
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Google announced that they are providing a little more data about YouTube videos for the people that uploaded them.
Today we’re taking our first step towards answering these questions with YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account — users, partners, and advertisers — to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. You can also delve deeper into the lifecycle of your videos, like how long it takes for a video to become popular, and what happens to video views as popularity peaks. For now, you can find currently available metrics by clicking under the “About this Video” button under My account > Videos, Favorites, Playlists > Manage my Videos.
That’s useful information but Google Operating System
notes that data about where videos have been embedded is not included.
The analytics data is really basic and doesn’t include a lot of interesting information like the sites that embed your videos, the most important sources of traffic, how many people view the full video or play it again etc.
Where online these videos are being watched is likely of awesome interest to YouTubers. YouTubers would probably find this information as valuable as where in the world people are watching them. There is a little bit of data underneath the videos about where people clicked from and you could post the video’s URL into Technorati but this probably wouldn’t turn up all the embeds. Pulse2.0
found this video about YouTube Insight.
Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee says that YouTube has promised to eventually include this valuable referrer information.
In a packet of emailed information, YouTube pointed out that its partners (which include established users and media companies) can utilize the Insight stats to increase their revenue. But to truly offer useful analytics YouTube needs to show the relations between videos, track search engine keywords, and measure the portion of a video a viewer watches before clicking away, among other things. YouTube did say it will soon add in referrer logs to show how viewers discoveruddy a video.
On an unrelated note Google/YouTube also
posted the message about YouTube Insight on the YouTube blog. Based on the comments some people are very angry that YouTube took away the “sort by most viewed” feature from the YouTube search. That was a useful feature - why did they take it away?
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