Code of Blog Ethics-Need Your Constructive Feedbacks

Blog, a tool to announce personal thoughts to the World, can harm others if not appropriately used. Code of Blog Ethics (COBE), a regulation developed for the interest of human rights and ethics, has been debated heatedly in various contexts. Scholars such as Rebecca Blood, and Martin have worked to develop their vision of COBE.

• Jonathan Dube: A Bloggers' Code of Ethics (http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php)


• Rebecca Blood: Weblog Ethics (In Weblog Handbook)(http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html)


• Martin: (http://blogethics2004.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html)

Are these necessary? Are there better ones? How do we address these important issues when blogging? Perhaps this is a question that every blogger needs to think about.

The Cool Cat Teacher Blog-How to Comment like a King/Queen?

• http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-comment-like-king-or-queen.html

I discovered this posting on the Internet, and it is very useful for you to learn how to make constructive comments on others' blogs. Take a look!

Hitting the Limit?!

Hitting the limit for your blog writing? Running out of ideas to engage your audience? The following links may help you:

• Make Your Audiance Go Hmm! (http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060125/2865/) Tips for quality blogging.

How others blog?

• The Drooley Dog Blog (http://www.droolydog.com/) -An art teacher blogging about creativity. This blog is written in energetic tones, with lively reflections and vivid thoughts from the blogger.
• Music Thing (http://musicthing.blogspot.com/) -well, same as the name of the blog, it talks about things related to music. The postings on this blog tend to be relatively short, but adequate enough for the purpose of information providing.
• Time Online-Eco Worrior (http://timesonline.typepad.com/eco_worrier/) -Yes, Time is always written in a more serious and formal tone. However, the audience of this blog indeed is very different from the previous two. :-)

How popular is my blog? Who visited my blog?

Want to know how popular your blog is? Want to know who visited your blog? The following tools may help you:

★ Counter-Tools helping you understand how many people visited your blog.

• Easy-Hit-Counters (http://easy-hit-counters.com/): Calculate the total number of people who visited your site.
• StatCounter (http://www.statcounter.com/): Calculate the total number of the unique visitors of your site.
• Feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com/): Calculate the total number of the unique visitors of your site.

★ Visitor Map-Tools helping you understand where your visitors are from.

• Feedjit (http://feedjit.com/): No registration required. Follow the instructions on the webpage.
• ClusterMap (http://clustrmaps.com/index.htm): Tells you where your visitors are from and how many by the size of red dots.

★ Visitor Information-Tools helping you understand who your visitors are.
In order to identify your visitors and know how they look like or what they do, you have to be part of a social networking group.

• Frappr (http://www.frappr.com/): Display your visitors through a map. Your visit needs to click on “Join” or “Add Yourself In” on the map in order to be recorded as your visitors. -See last posting for an example.
• MyBlogCatalog (http://www.blogcatalog.com/): Display your visitors by using your profile in a variety of social networking service, including blogger, facebook, myspace, etc.
• MyBlogLog (http://www.mybloglog.com/): Display your visitors by using your profile in a variety of social networking service, including blogger, facebook, myspace, etc. You will need to complete all the information required and invite 5 friends in order to use this service.
• Orkut-Display the Most Recent 10 Visitor Profiles (http://en.blog.orkut.com/2007/11/now-see-10-recent-profile-visitors.html)

★ Statistics-Tools helping you calculate your blog traffic in graph forms.

• Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/): Calculate how many and how often people visited your blog and how long they stayed on your blog. It also helps to track where the visitors are from and how they found your blog. Data are analyzed each day.
• StatCounter (http://www.statcounter.com/): Similar to Google Analytics, but layouts are more complicated.
• CrazyEgg (http://crazyegg.com/): Similar to Google Analytics, but display statistics with more sophisticated visual elements.

★ Just Ask-

• Veerle’s Blog: Who are my visitors? (http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/who_are_my_visitors/): See how Veerle get to know her visitors.

Visitors

How to popularize/promote your blog?

Want to get more traffic on your blog? This posting may give you some ideas.

• Advice from Search It:
  http://www.search-this.com/2007/04/23/how-to-promote-your-blog/
• Suggestions from Dan Zak, a reporter of Washington Post: http://insidedigitalmedia.com/how-to-popularize-your-blog/
• Announce your Blog to the World-Ping:
  Claim your blog on Web Directories:
  -Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/ping.html)
  -Google Ping (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping)
  -PingGoat (http://pingoat.com/)
  -Blogflux (http://pinger.blogflux.com/)
  -Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com )

Some Interesting Introductions/First Postings

After the reviews and the discussions of your peers' first posting or introduction to their blogs, I found that you may need some examples to hold on. You do not need to write like these authors; you can make your decisions of course. These are just examples, for your references.

http://www.oceanandstars.com/2004/06/welcome_to_ocea.html-a college professor, writing to update his family and friends about his son, Danny, who has Down syndrome and get help from the public

http://dogsayeview.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html-writing from a dog's point of view

http://iori-lostinreality.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post.html-in Chinese, but tracking the incidents before starting a blog

http://on-liberty.homeip.net/en/2007/06/hata3-introduction.html-a japanese blogger, introducing himself, and his English blog, in English

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! Here you may expect some useful information about blogging. Feel free to use any resources I will be posting here. Enjoy blogging! :-)