Schlagwortarchiv für: Weblog

Vom kleinen Trackback

Der Trackback (siehe Stefan’s definitorische Ansätze) hat eine spätestens in diesem Jahr eine rudimentäre Funktion in Weblogs und auch anderen Webseiten erhalten: Sie bieten den Autoren von Weblogs die Möglichkeit, andere Autoren auf ähnlichen oder gar weiterführenden Inhalt hin aufmerksam zu machen. Jedoch dient ein Trackback nicht dazu, die eigene Webseite bei anderen Autoren zu promoten.

Wer zu dem MikeSchnoor.com gerne verlinken möchte, darf dies natürlich sofort und jederzeit, solange man da nicht irgendwie in Konflikt mit dem Gesetz kommt. Dies gilt auch für Trackbacks, wobei hier eine Erweiterung im Sinne des „wie du mir, so ich dir“ gilt: Trackbacks machen nur dann Sinn, wenn aus dem Artikel eines anderen Autors klar wird, dass der Link der Seite innerhalb des „getrackbackten“ Artikels ebenfalls gesetzt ist. Ebenfalls sind Trackbacks zu Artikeln zu unterlassen, wenn die Artikel über mehrere Wochen oder Monate alt sind und keine damit verbundene aktuelle Referenz (mit Ausnahme von einzelnen Suchbegriffen oder Tags) besteht.

Ich bitte deshalb, dass gewisse Autoren sich nicht wundern dürfen, wenn ich sinnlose Trackbacks nicht freischalte und gegebenenfalls auch nach Erscheinen auf diesem Blog wieder entferne.

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Germanism made the Front Page

I haven’t noticed this for a while, but the last set of posts to the MikeSchnoor.com weblog have been solely in German. Primarily, I chose to write more in German since the topics itself were covering some rather personal events from our partying life, some most localizing things concerning the germanspeaking blogosphere, and our student life at University. Especially, the content of these student-related entries won’t make any sense to somebody who does not even attend our University of Flensburg.

So far the last 11 posts were written in German. And I have to admit that most of my RSS Feed subscriptions haven’t revealed anything interesting which I’d like to cover too, and on top of this, most news magazines on the net dropped deep into the recess of the autumn season. There is nothing special, nothing amazing, nothing special going on.

The only things that keep my mind busy is indeed University and the sadness of German politics. But that, of course, won’t interest that many readers, and especially the burnout-syndrome of which we all are suffering while studying is quite common to everyone else who’s got to learn something.

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Haben Will

Und was? Ja genau, ein Ticket zu den Medientagen München 2005 inklusive Flug und Unterbringung. Leider habe ich aufgrund wichtiger terminlicher Verbindlichkeiten keine Zeit, an diesem messehaften Event teilzunehmen.

Was möchte ich noch in diesem Jahr unternehmen? Gerne zur Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris… wer spendet mir das?

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Blog-Mania 2009

Zeit zum Feiern! Dass die Amerikaner ja so einige Probleme mit den Mitarbeitern und Angestellten haben, wissen wir ja schon längst. Und weil sie gerade so freudig sich mit Weblogs auseinander setzen können, kann mittlerweile eine kühne Prognose die Zukunft der Menschheit vorausdeuten. Ja, wir werden alle Blogger sein! Ihr könnt euch nicht wehren! Denn laut den jüngsten Informationen von Pressetext Austria wird ab dem Jahr 2009 jeder Mensch ein Blogger sein!

Das Medium „Weblog“ verzeichnet laut der Blog-Suchmaschine Technorati insgesamt einen regen Zulauf. Diese findet weltweit aktuell 19,6 Mio. Blogs. Die Zahl hat sich in den vergangenen drei Jahren alle fünf Monate verdoppelt. Wenn dieser Trend anhält, dann sind bis zum Jahr 2009 alle 6,7 Mrd. Menschen im Besitz eines Weblogs.

Berechtigte Zweifel sind vor allen Dingen berechtigt, und ich zweifel ganz gewiss an solch einer den Haaren rausgerupften Idee. Warum? Na ganz einfach: Ich sprenge schon heute die Statistik! Ich bin stolzer Besitzer eines aktiven Blogs (diesem hier), eines inaktiven Blogs (natürlich irgendwo bei WordPress.com), eines verwaisten Blogs (beim alten Hostingprovider von Blogspirit) und einiger Clone-Blogs (irgend welche alten Adressen bei Bloghof, Blogspot, Blogsonstwas und Blog-Dir-Mal-Was-Gutes). Und wenn man es genau nimmt, sind sogar ein paar verschiedene Domains auf mein aktives Blog gelinkt, und die verwaisten und doppelte Blogs sind sogar mit follow Anweisungen zum aktiven Blog gelistet. Wenn wir nun alle „Multi-Blogger“ davon abziehen, brauchen wir wirklich bis 2010! [via Martin Röll und Moe]

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Buy me as Mr. Money Maker!


My blog is worth $22,581.60.
How much is your blog worth?

 There we go and see ourselves as the top of on the flow. Well not truely on the flow, but the MikeSchnoor.com has got quite a high value. Is anyone interested in special advertisement deals? ;)

I wonder who’d ever pay so much, but the idea behind combining the blog link ranking with the AOL prices is quite a nice gadget for every nerdy soul like me!
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Best of the Blogs Awards

I’m honestly dissatisfied with the selection of the nominated blogs for the Best of the Blogs Awards. Especially for the category of German Journalistic Blogs, I sense a disturbance in the force. Jörg-Olaf at Medienrauschen asked the right question: What qualifies these blogs as being journalistic? To be honest: What the hell?! Where’s the journalistic sense gone to? Who made that selection – and is that the best of the germanspeaking blogosphere?
And even one of the nominees Anke Gröner wondered about at the whole on her own!

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Can you be a ProBlogger?

Well, certainly the phenomenon created by (and around) Darren Rowse is certainly a prime example on how successful a blog author can become. However, many others who aren’t part of the blogging star network continuously try to become the same – and fail! The Workboxers have written a nice statement concerning this failure routine:

Darren just happened to be one of the first to realize the potential blogs had to stream content to the World Wide Web … and is extremely good at it.

If you want a successful blog, read the following advice. Everyone who is considering starting a blog should know the fundamental rule, blog about something you have a passion for! What they (Problogger and co) neglect to tell you is that you must pick a topic that will get attention! Something that will get linked to from all over the world! Something that blog networks will want to post about! Something that Darren himself will post about! Why? Because this is how a blog gets major traffic!

Clearly, this is true. And who would ever want to publish their secrets on earning money to the people who generate that money? In the end, many people do not realize they need niches. And without these niches, they won’t be in the center spot of any attention. I know this, I realized this, and live wonderful with it. The question seriously is: Do you want to be a professional blogger, or rather choose to find the newest niche for you to dig in and become the counter part to Darren? I’d follow that way.

[via Light Within, Workboxers]

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Weblog Top Ten Mistakes

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Jakob Nielsen published his list of the most common mistakes of weblog authors concerning the usability of their blogs: The Top Ten Design Mistakes.

  1. No Author Biographies
  2. No Author Photo
  3. Nondescript Posting Titles
  4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
  5. Classic Hits are Buried
  6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
  7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
  8. Mixing Topics
  9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
  10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

So much about this list, and I am aware of the fact that the MikeSchnoor.com does not conform with the first two issues so far. I believe it is important to reveal a little bit about yourself as an author, and in order to meet that small and simple criteria, I’m going to post my biography and some fancy picture in the About section.

However, the problem with having words linked like „here“ or „click“ as seen in the third issue doesn’t happen at all on this site. Usually it is quite easy for a reader to understand that links created by myself lead to that what they are targeted at.

The fourth issue of posting a list of the top articles in a blog is useful, and I might do this in the near future. Fortunately I don’t even use a calendar for its horrible usability. But I’m not sharing Nielsen’s opinion about mixing topics or posting irregularly. I do prefer to mix topics since I cover many issues on this blog. For this, the four major categories (shown on top of the site) combine the others which are seen as the „big list“ in the sidebar. And how can one expect to judge content by posting only if there’s time for blogging? If you have other things to do, this is more imperative than covering the show in your blog. Thus this is a problem which is aimed directly at corporate or professional bloggers who post once a week.

The question about your future boss is always important – never forget that one may like to hire you and become offended from your writing. But one may never forget that a flame war in your blog is different from a critical opinion and thought. If I have a problem with the fictional Company X, and I get hired from that company after two years, the company should accept that employees with critical opinions are more valuable than the simple digest that oyu can find on the street.

Last but not least, we do have a domain name here – or you wouldn’t read us at all, or not? ;)

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Flock me up!

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Earlier this morning I received my official invitation from the team around Flock – the newest toy for combining Webbrowsing, RSS Aggregating and Social Bookmarking! Unfortunately the firewall of the University of Flensburg is not allowing me to download the file, and I’m probably trying to get my hands on it once I’m back home. For now, you may review some photos already here at Factory Joe’s Flickr Set. Hopefully I will post a review in a few hours!

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Edelman/Technorati PR Survey

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The results of the previously mentioned Bloggerstudy have been published at Edelman’s Extranet. According to Richard Edelman himself, this Edelman/Technorati blog survey was conducted to:

  • Better understand bloggers’ attitudes towards corporations and PR firms
  • Help clients understand why and how they should engage the blogosphere

You may comment on either Richard’s or David’s blog about this survey.

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