Blog Updates: From This Business of Blogging to ProHipHop

I decided to make my last official post on This Business of Blogging an overview of what's happening with all of my blog or blog-related projects. I'm mentioning it here because it's relevant to my hip hop projects and I know a few folks find behind the scenes info of interest.

Business of Blogging: Content Distribution, Bad Social Media Marketing, Brand Building & Book Deals, Gawker Scumlords

I'm continuing to build slowly at This Business of Blogging. Here are my latest posts:

Distributing Content Via RSS: Kindle Blogs, Twitterfeed, MoFuse Mobile

How NOT to Handle Requests for Review Copies

Blogging for Brand Building and Book Deals

Gawker: We're Proud of Our Scummy Success

Blog Biz: MySpace & Expanded Notions of Web Publishing

As I've continue to clarify my focus at This Business of Blogging, I've begun to use related books as jumping-off points to consider basic, underlying concepts related to blogging and web publishing.

As previously noted, in a post titled Founders At Work: Flexible Approaches to Entrepreneurial Business Models, I explored the need for flexible business models in web publishing and, though I didn't fully articulate the point, this idea can be applied even to the thematic focus of a blog written as a form of self-expression.

Today I completed a short post titled Julia Angwin's Stealing MySpace: Expanded Notions of Web Publishing that uses a book about MySpace as a starting point to consider the fairly simple idea that social networks can be considered web publishing platforms that move us towards new perspectives in what constitutes digital publishing. Such perspectives are further expanded by widgets and even by iPhone apps.

As I note towards the end of that post, simple ideas are often dismissed as obvious but the masters of the obvious often reveal themselves to have missed the point when they themselves act. Newspaper publishers are a particularly strong example of businesses filled with smart people who regularly have difficulty understanding the relevance of fairly simple conceptual shifts that have resulted in a complex media environment.

Be that as it may, I continue to work out some basic ideas that have been important to me at This Business of Blogging and I hope some of you will find them of interest.

This Business Of Blogging: Founders At Work

I'm working my way back into longer, more analytical posts over at This Business Of Blogging where I discuss Jessica Livingston's Founders At Work with a focus on Flexible Approaches to Entrepreneurial Business Models and their relevance to blogging and web publishing.

I'm a bit rusty with longer forms but I feel my skills returning!

Plus:
SuperNews!: Twouble with Twitters

This Business of Blogging Kicks In

This new blog is feeling right:

Nanoblogging w/Flutter: Post-Twitter Mockumentary

Microformats Entering "Real Life" w/rel="me"