Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham Bloggers’

When a blog post becomes an article

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Two weekends a go I embarked on what I thought would be a rather large but tasty blog post reviewing the new Waitrose website which had adopted all manner of social interactions with its users. It honestly began as a blog post but as I got into it and further into the Waitrose website I found that I was no longer writing a blog post, it had become an article. At the point where I had reached in the region of 4000 words I was advised by my good friend David North that it was an article and I should distribute it as such. Thanks David, you are very right. Now I know that I am one to ramble on with my posts and that I seem to get lost in the language that I love and by the time I know it the postings are as long as a shopping run to Asda after a three week holiday. When I am writing a blog post I like to pay it my full attention too so complete it before I start thinking about what the next discussion will be. I have spent the last two weekends working and reworking the article before moving on which is why there has been a gap in my regular postings.

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Tags: Birmingham Bloggers, Dave Briggs, Mark Steadman
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Birmingham blogging bug pandemic

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

There is a bug going around Birmingham at the moment and I have caught it. It’s the blogging virus and it is spread through close contact, speech, hearing and touch. Yesterday evening was the second Birmingham bloggers meet up and it was a much more interesting dynamic than the last. Not to say the first was bad, I got a lot out of it and we discussed some very interesting topics but this time with around twenty people and with such a mixed bag of styles and genres of blogging it really had a zing about it. Without meaning to exclude anyone’s particular style of delivery, to give you a flavour there were political bloggers, press bloggers, social media analysts, Birmingham promoters, personal bloggers, rant specialists, podcasters, creative and design promoters and a cartoonist. Such a vibrant bunch of people, such diversity, and so much alcohol consumed. I must say I was feeling a little worse for wear this morning and from what I gather from some of the Twitter profiles going around, I was not alone. You know who you are!

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Tags: Birmingham Bloggers, birminghamuk, Nick Booth, upYerBrum
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