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Title: Essential Blogging by Shelley Powers, Cory Doctorow, J. Scott Johnson, Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Rael Dornfest ISBN: 0-596-00388-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 28 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good guide to some specific software
Comment: "Blogging" (the practice of keeping a public on-line journal to record personal thoughts, observations and links), is hot news on the internet these days. Many of the best-known names in the business keep such journals, so it's not surprising that the book publishers want to cash in.
Things in the world of blogging move fast. Minor celebrities rise and fall, new software is continually being released, new jargon is invented. It's hard for a paper book to keep up. There are some aspects of blogging which are gaining some permanancy. Unfortunately, this book only skims those topics, preferring to spend nearly 200 pages describing how to use particular (late 2002) versions of a few blogging tools.
The most incisive and thought-provoking part of the book is the last ten pages - interesting quotes from a range of bloggers. It's the only bit which shows any of the excitement and "buzz" of blogging and gets you wanting to get involved.
This is not a bad book. But it's not really the book described in its own advertsing. If you want a rough guide to comparing, installing and using a small selection of the well-known blog software offerings, this book is right for you. If you want a more thoughtful and detailed overview of what blogging is all about, why you should do it, what the terminology means, or how it works "under the hood", keep looking.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not enough code for me
Comment: I bought this book hoping for a little more code (html or java) to help me design my own weblog, but it left me hanging. It gives a great description of what a weblog is and how to get it up and running, but lacks in design elements.
Rating: 4
Summary: Read this before you start blogging
Comment: Reading this book before you get started with a blog will save you time, money, and frustration. It will give you a fantastic overview of what is available as far as platforms and tools for blogging. It is not a reference, and it omits a lot of things one may wish to do with their blog. But it will be helpful to the novice. While this is a beginner's book, it is not written at a "Dummy" level, and the typical computer user will be right at home. The only disadvantage of the book is that once you zero in on a particular blog management system (e.g., Blogger) the sections dealing with the other systems are no longer particularly useful.
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Title: The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood ISBN: 073820756X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Content Syndication with RSS by Ben Hammersley ISBN: 0596003838 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz Stone ISBN: 0735712999 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs by Paul Bausch, Matthew Haughey, Meg Hourihan ISBN: 0764549626 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 08 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs by Todd Stauffer ISBN: 0072227125 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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