Blogging as a public relations skill: B.L. Ochman's tips on How To Write Killer Blog Posts are geared toward's PR professionals but are general enough to apply across the board to blogging. In fact, isn't all blogging a form of public relations? Don't we all need to write pithy headlines and grabby leads if we want the... (Weblog Concepts)

Standing on the verge of nonprofit blogging: One of the more popular (commented-on, linked-to) posts here in the last year or so was my somewhat sketchy Weblog strategies for nonprofits entry. At some point I was talking to CompuMentor about some kind of panel discussion on the subject in SF but I haven't heard anything about it lately... (Weblog Concepts)

Blog media dinner at Bastille last week: Though it's sure to annoy Stavros, I have to say I had a mighty fine time meeting face-to-face with a bunch of smart webloggers and new media types last Wednesday, February 18. Susan Mernit invited me (and blogged about it in Navigating the Info Jungle). J.D. Lasica co-hosted it (and reported... (Blogosphere)

Three reasons to use WordPress: Matthey "Doubting" Thomas offers three reasons why he uses WordPress 1.0 to drive his website: I can't, and shouldn't, control the sites that link to mine. So when they do link, I should make sure their links don't break. The URIs (addresses) WordPress provides for each article I write are almost... (Products)

Structuring blog entries for scanning: Jon Udell, one of the deeper thinkers around on matters of weblog, syndication, journalism, and information overload has come up with some important "best practices" suggestions for structuring weblog entries to facilitate efficient scanning by readers trying to follow many information sources through their RSS feeds, in Heads, Decks, and Leads:... (Syndication)

Next-gen blogging tools: Dave Winer is planning BloggerCon II and is soliciting ideas from blog users (as opposed to developers) about what features the next generation of blogging tools should offer.... (Products)

Why publishers shouldn't host weblogs and how they should: Tom Coates, the A-List hunk who once called this humble blog "astoundingly useful" (or something like that &8211; it was in my comments and they're not searchable and I'm not together enough to capture testimonials on the spur of the moment) offers a cogent analysis of why content publisher shouldn't host... (Salon Bloggers)

Bofus?: Damn! I subscribe to Mike Watt's mailing list and wade through tons of announcements for gigs in the southland and then I miss a rare Banyan appearance in an intimate SF room? What's wrong with me? How frustrating. It's been too long since I heard my favorite bass player. Scot Hacker... (Miscellany)