David asked how the heck all those posts got from one blog into another (this one). If you’re using WordPress, the dashboard offers a very nice, straight-forward way to export your blog posts to an xml file. That file can then be imported into a different WordPress blog. No idea how you’d import them into a blog of a different flavor, but there are probably some options out there.
It’s all under the Manage menu, take a peek at this screenshot:
Over at ScribeFire, I just came upon something really interesting. It looks like they’ve integrated a forum into their WordPress blog. Nice clean transition from blog to forum “look and feel”. How do they do that?! Special plug-in? Very nice indeed…
update:
A quick search brought up a couple of possibilities. Main players are RS Discuss, XDForum, WP-forum, and Simple Forum. Here’s a list from the WordPress site:
This article on elearnmag.org, Blogging to Learn and Learning to Blog points out what it is about blogging that makes sense to me: blogging to learn.
I’m not someone who feels a need to blog out loud personally, au contraire: Blogging for me is about keeping track of interesting bits of info related to work, in order to share them with colleagues and refer to them later on.
In particular, I find these points in the article pertinent:
“Most learning in organizations is informal…”
“Blogs provide a mechanism for employees to write about what they are doing and learning in their jobs…”
“They are a bottoms-up approach to communication and knowledge management.”
The article then goes over some guidelines for using blogs as knowledge management tools. IMHO blogs don’t eliminate the need to share coffee, but they can certainly help to fill in the blanks between regular meetings, or allow meetings to take up a bit less time reporting and make more time for exchanging.
SixApart has launched Vox, a blogging tool for bloggers who would rather not blog out loud. If you want to keep your blog content less than public, you can open up your blog to only the people you want to see it. Or let the whole world see, Vox gives you the choice.
It’s possible to use an external feed producing service, but keep the feed address at your site. For example, the actual feed URL might be feeds.feedburner.com/whatever_the_feed_is. But you want people to subscribe to a feed that looks like mywebsitename.com/podcastfeed.xml.
That way, if for any reason the external service changes their policy, disappears or whatever, your feed address doesn’t get lost in cyber space. It’s still mywebsitename.com/podcastfeed.xml (but you’d have to find another way to produce the feed of course).
Feedburner support forums describe how to use the htaccess file to redirect users to the feed at feedburner:
http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=17
How to forward without an htaccess file:
http://www.fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/feedburner-with-wordpress-without-htaccess/
Via podcastingunderground podcast:
http://www.podcastingunderground.com/tpu-7-feedburner-why-and-how-you-should-use-it
Performancing for Firefox is an extension that lets you blog from right within your browser.
Nice points: post to multiple blogs, technorati tags, blog metrics. Less than nice point, for our blogs anyway: b2evolution’s api doesn’t work. 
Definitely worth a test anyway.
[update] Performancing is now ScribeFire, and I’m now using WordPress. 
ScribeFire plays well with WordPress. I’ve used it a fair amount (as witnessed by the posts with the “powered by ScribeFire” blob at the end), and it does indeed make it much more convenient to blog about something that you come upon while surfing.
Nice page about how you can use blogs in education, with samples and everything.
thanks to lernpfade
A review of Measure Map, a tool that gathers blog visitor statistics.
from martijndevisser.com
