Marion's Weblog

Marion's Weblog
My name is Marion Vermazen. I worked at Sun Microsystems up until June 3, 2005. I worked on the IT aspects of Sun's work from anywhere program, iWork. I was also the team lead for the Java Desktop and Solaris 10 at Sun Change Acceptance team.

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Friday December 10, 2004

Blogging questions

It goes with out saying that a lot of people don't read blogs. If they do they probably read only one or two. When I email a link to a blog to friends or to my group I often get asked how I find the time to read blogs. I found a very good introduction about How to get into blogs at a blog called tecosystems. The whole idea is rather daunting to a lot of people. Even when you have figured out the basics there are still a lot of thing that are confusing. Here are some of the questions I am still noodling over.

What is Technorati? What do people use it for? I've created an acount and even have a link to it on my blog but I still haven't really figured it out. Oh and what are the little dialog baloons that I see on blogs like Tim Bray's?

Another question I have is - How do I publish blog entries from outside the Sun Network? I think I've found what I need in some of the Sun blogging documentation. I think I need to set up some blogging software that uses the blogger API, but I still need to figure out exactly how to do it.

A third question is - What is the best way is to keep track of specific blog entries that I might want to look at in the future? I'm thinking of putting links to some of them in my blog. For instance I might start a category called iWork tips and then just blog every time I find a link that is a good tip about how to do mobile work. I could do the same thing with SunRay at home comments. But there have to be other ways besides just bookmarking them all.

The last question for now is what is the best way to reply to comments? If I do it in line I'm never sure the person ever saw my reply. If I email a response everyone doesn't see it. Maybe the best thing to do is to do both. And when I comment how do I remember to go back and check for a reply? I commented on a Richard Edelman blog the other day and his reply is both in the blog and I got it in email. I wonder if that was automatic? By the way, how cool is that that I actually got an email from Richard Edelman!! (2004-12-10 17:59:45.0) Permalink Comments [5]