The blogroll

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Melissa Worden

The X Degree is almost a month old, and I’m celebrating by putting together a blogroll (now added to the homepage and permalink pages sidebars).

The goal is to pass along nods to some great blogging out there, and help me organize a little. I’ve been filing everyone in my Google reader, and wow, that list is getting LONG fast — a testament, I think, to all the thought-provoking discussions.

(Note: I found a blogroll tool called Feevy on Innovation in College Media tonight; it looks great on their site (look for the colored avitars along the right sidebar). Bringing in the actual entry of the blog prevents the list from becoming wallpaper. Very nice idea. I might play with it soon.)

I started this blog for a few reasons:

>> I can’t seem to get into or afford any seminars, so I’m hoping this will help me network and learn more about multimedia tips, tricks and industry happenings.
>> It’ll keep me updated on projects that excel (and don’t) in online storytelling so I can push myself and the newsroom to create better projects.
>> I have some things to say about my work and what we do as multimedia editors and producers to create interactive storytelling.

This thing takes a lot of time, but it’s already paying off in my work and professional development. Sort of like owning a cellphone: How did I ever get by without it?

Comments

2 Responses to “The blogroll”

David de Ugarte on February 18th, 2007 5:19 am

Hi!
Sure you will love feevy for making blog portals as www.parlamentarios.info

Avatars can be personalized both by the owner of the linked blog or the owner of the linking blog as in http://www.pablomancini.com.ar or in http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/

Ah! with feevy blogs are constantly reordered according with updating: the most updated will appear in the top.

:-)
Patrick B on February 18th, 2007 10:02 pm

Honestly, ICM looks a little too SavannahNow for my tastes. Web 2.0 is getting a little out of hand.

Another good source for enabling avatars on your blog (comments) is Gravatar, which recently relaunched after being stagnant for some time. I’ve been using them for a few months now without complaint.