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| The Rough Guide to Blogging 1 (Rough Guide Reference) (Rough Guide Reference) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 241665
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 184353682X
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9781843536826
ASIN: 184353682X
Publication Date: July 17, 2006
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Condition: Brand new book. Not a remainder.
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Product Description
The Rough Guide to Blogging is the ultimate reference for all things weblog. It takes you into the blogosphere, from blogging''s early history and where it is today, to the future of blogs and their social and cultural impact. This book will help you to discover the greatest blogs on the web and to understand newsreaders and RSS. Whether you want to start your own blog or contribute to an existing one, this guide will teach you everything you''ll need to know. Chapters include: Creating a Blog, Blog Design, Advanced Blogging, Audio and Video, Podcasting, Blogging for Money, Corporate Blogging plus much, much more. Whether you''re an experienced blogger or just getting started, this is the right book for you.
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 Unusual - and even fun - beginners blogging guide August 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a super little book about blogging that establishes a niche of its own. Starting with the unlikely cover pic of an Eskimo with laptop, apparently blogging on a seat of furs in an expanse of endless ice and snow, the book logs into unusual textual terrain as well.
The first few chapters, 1 through 4, discuss the rise of blogging - what blogs are, how to find them on the blogosphere, how to subscribe to blog readers...there's a swift grounding.
Chapters 5 through 8 cover the set up basics; there is actually (albeit barely) enough to get you off the ground from blog hosting to blog design.
Chapter 9 discusses blogorrhea, finding your voice, how to be interesting and honest online, editing your work, and building your audience.
The traffic chapter is concise - and far from comprehensive. Nothing here will teach you to get to the top of the search engine rankings. But the tips about sitemeters, IP addresses, page rank (and even Google bombing) are at least a start.
Pages 64-65 cover the basic elements of a post, from tips on titling, to time stamps, pull quotes, adding comments and permalinking. The next pages discuss why Times Roman and Georgia are the most common blogger serif fonts, and how Verdana and Courier new can be useful as sans serif choices. There is some neat stuff here I have not seen in other books of this ilk.
Especially enjoyable are the many chapters (about half of the actual book) about popular blogs in different genres. It's neat to read the screen captures and mini-reviews of the best blogs in fields like politics and journalism, diaries and journaling, education and business.
The author's personal blogroll is fascinating as well, including lists of neat blogs on art, cars, celebrities, design, food, gossip, pets, knitting, law, literature, sports and sex.
This is a really fun book. Recommended as a supplemental blogging guide, best used beside a more complete introductory blog text like Blogging for Dummies or the Everything Blogging Book.
 blogging book July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very helpful and complete book since I am a beginner I don't have much to
compare it with but I am finding the book to be very helpful so far.
Great little reference book for the blogger and soon to be blogger June 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whether or not you already blog, "The Rough Guide to Blogging" can get you up and running if you're new to blogging and provide tips for those who already blog. [...]
Terrific introduction to blogging May 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a wonderfull book about blogging. It is mainly an introduction. The book starts with some general information about blogging. Next it explains the different kind of blogs, were to host your blog or use a server side blog. It also guides you how to write a blog, how to earn money with your blog. The last part of the book consits of a list per category of the most important blogs. It is not a book to read from cover to cover. I used it for inspiration and examples as well as instruction book. What I did was read a chapter and followed the links it provided. The design of the book is very pretty, well done a pleasure to read and a excellent introduction.
It doesn't go into details how to maintain a blog or how to do research for your blog e.g. using e-mail alerts, website monitors etc.
Informative, easy, and to the point! A great read! November 2, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was very pleased with this book. After only a couple days of reading through it I was able to grasp the concepts of blogging and begin my own blog like a pro!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in blogging, it is a MUST HAVE!
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