Blogging Tools of The Future
For the last two days I’ve felt horrible. Horrible actually doesn’t really describe how I feel. I spent most of yesterday in bed. All in all I think I had consumed roughly 30 over the counter pain pills, a few sleeping pills, and still wished someone could take me out of my misery. Luckily I managed to force myself to get roughly 16 hours of sleep so all is well today I hope. If I still have a liver. I think it was a migraine hitting me in 2 different directions.
Yet here I was this morning doing my job. How do you usually cope with being sick and keeping up with your blog? I notice my quality of writing goes down significantly when I don’t feel well. Normally I would have some sort of featured posts cooked up in the oven and I just just flip the switch and magically my blog would just manage to keep up with the high octane pace in which I normally cover the news. But with the holidays I pretty much used up all my reserves and then some. I feel so robbed.
I have no genius ideas to blog about. I have no huge news to report. All I have is a pain medicated hangover, the desire to lay in bed and watch movies. Yet I have 500 unanswered emails, a list as high as Mount Rushmore, and a plate full of travel plans. See the big problem I guess is no centralized way to organize my blogging life. If I was organized it would be easy to manage. But I’m just not organized enough. I envision a world where I could have my emails in the same place as my feeds. I could have prioritized ranking on both. Think Digg For The Inbox. Magically I could also share my Inbox with others when it was a collaborative project. So the 901am bloggers could view all our email and feeds in the same place. And we could add in blog comments too. So you would have Email, Feeds, and Comments so you could track all conversations coming in all mediums.
If I had this in place I wouldn’t have to write this post. I could ping Thord, or Muhammad and life would be easier. Instead I’m staring at my screen wondering how could I make life easier.
So, if you could design a blogging tool of the future what would it do?
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Well, between Fri 22nd and Tue 26th I was posting Flickr pictures every 2 hours on the nose. It took me forever of a way to “Blog This” as pre-posted articles. I think that would be on the top of my ‘realistic’ tools.
Now, for the imaginery tool of the future .. let me patent it first :p
By HART (1-800-HART) on January 2, 2007 6:03 am
Yeah just imagine if I took pictures. My life would be that much more saturated.
By David Krug on January 2, 2007 6:05 am
I don’t have to imagine that *uh* I’m still imagining people who actually do reading sex blogs, instead of just looking at the pictures or 10 second clips :roll:
(I’m too lazy to post on the other entry)
By HART (1-800-HART) on January 2, 2007 6:09 am
A Borg wireless inplant of some sort so I could login and blog from the shower, car, etc. I swear some of the best blogging I do is in my head. Unfortunately, it vanishes by the time I sit down and write.
By Anne-Marie on January 2, 2007 10:19 am
When I saw this post I recognized the photo as one done by one of my favorite Flickr contacts,
Stuck in Customs. Since he has an “all rights reserved” copyright notice on the photo, I’m hoping you got permission to include it in your blog post. I would have liked to have seen photo credit given to him as well.
As a photographer who wants to share her work but also wants her copyright respected (I use a Creative Commons license), I’d like to see you give photo credit and affirm permissions on photos blogged from Flickr.
Thanks.
By Karoli on January 2, 2007 11:54 pm
Karoli,
This is a non-commercial site at the moment and we are using photos such as this one under the umbrella of fair use. Normally I don’t include copyrighted photos, and I rarely provide links back to the photo sources unless requested. Copyright, and permissions is an issue I tend to leave to lawyers and such and I generally will avoid controversy if I feel its not worth getting controversial. According to law permission is not always needed, but it can be needed. But normally by that time its easier to remove the photos.
Defining Fair Use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
By David Krug on January 3, 2007 12:49 am
I will also note its splendid peace of artwork.
By David Krug on January 3, 2007 12:50 am
Honestly, many of us on Flickr (myself included) would love to have our images used on a blog with the number of readers that you have. Of course, we want credit for those images, though. Not payment, just credit.
Just like blogging, it’s about attention. It’s not difficult to drop a small credit below the photo. As an example, you’d be free to use any of my images on your blog with attribution under my Creative Commons license. That’s all I want.
Now in the case of Trey, he’s currently in the middle of a gallery showing of many of his works of art. I won’t speak for him, but I’ll venture a guess that he’d love to have his image included in your blog with a credit back to him as photographer.
It seems like a small enough gesture, but extremely meaningful to those of us who have been victimized by far less ethical bloggers than you.
By Karoli on January 3, 2007 1:25 am
I often find pictures on Flickr and utilize the “Blog This” option (on my PapillonLvr site). A link is generated in my blog of its source and displays the picture. I rarely download pictures using the “All Sizes” option, even though it’s available to me, although for the life of me I have no idea why some allow downloading and not blogging.
If you don’t want me to download your pictures, this is what you should do:
Log into your Flickr account / You / Your Account / Photo Settings / Allow Downloading … and turn it off.
And if you want to allow people to use your photos and give you proper attribution, then also while you are in Your Account.. “Allow Blogging” – and turn it on. People will be able to “Blog This” and not “Download All Sizes”.
I know it won’t stop everybody. If you (anybody) is more concerned or scared or worry to death about this happening and being “victimize from far less ethical bloggers” out there … there are options:
(1) take them offline and do not share ..
(2) put a watermark on them that links back to you .. or
(3) just reduce the quality so you are in control of the ‘good version’
Don’t get me wrong, I am 100% for the attribution and giving proper credit where credit is due – but, I do not believe that just because you have a CC licence on your website or next to something that it’s the end all legal savior for you in every situation. And, as well – Wikipedia is not the most efficient or reliable legal resource out there either.
It’s just my 2 cents .. i.m.h.o. .. I don’t want to start any ruckus or anything. It is intended for more of a FYI.
PS: if the “abuser” does not rename the filename of the picture, it usually can be traced back to the source anyway because it shows the Flickr ID in it, I believe.
By HART (1-800-HART) on January 3, 2007 2:31 am
[...] Tonight I was clicking through feeds when I came across this post calling for feedback about blogging tools of the future. I’ve been a reader of David Krug’s since the PayPerPost brouhaha a couple of months back when he was blogging at the Blog Herald, which has been acquired and seen a complete turnover. David now blogs at 9o1am.com, where I remain an reader and occasional commenter. [...]
By Respect thy Neighbors » odd time signatures on January 3, 2007 2:44 am
HART,
What is so difficult about giving credit? I respectfully disagree on your solution to the problem and I’m truly at a loss to understand the reluctance to credit an artist for their work.
Put in a different context, do you support splogs? I think they suck, because your content that YOU created is taken for purposes you did not authorize, with no attribution or credit back to you.
Is the answer to stop blogging, to make your blog private? Wouldn’t that be throwing the baby with the bathwater?
I have seen Flickr members’ best photos stolen and reposted by other users as their own. That’s the abuse I’m talking about and it happens far too often.
I don’t view this use of Trey’s photo as evil or intentional, but I do see it as a problem in a larger context. As bloggers with a higher profile than most and a large readership, it would be nice to see an example set of attributing work to the person who created it.
Finally, if you look at the properties for this photo, you’ll discover that it isn’t immediately simple to discover the owner of the photo.
By Karoli on January 3, 2007 2:55 am
Karoli,
Image has been replaced and I’ve blacklisted that flickr account and yours so as never to offend you. This is easier to deal with than dealing with you at the moment. 3 days in a row with migraines is enough sorry. :)
By David Krug on January 3, 2007 7:07 am
It was my image – I got a deluge of emails today that linked all around to this blog.
No worries – people blog my stuff all the time… they just drop me a note asking, and I always say yes, just credit me and link back to my site at stuckincustoms.com – thx
By StuckInCustoms on January 3, 2007 8:12 am
I think its hilarious you got a deluge of emails, and I didn’t get a single one.
By David Krug on January 3, 2007 8:18 am
David, I think it is hilarious that many of your readers know “StuckInCustoms”.
Such a coincidence they all meet at 901am. ;-)
By franky on January 3, 2007 10:08 am