Towards better international blogging
HODER -- One of the best things about not going to conferences is learning who to meet outside of them. I draw my conclusions from the after effects of major meetings. Reading post-event blogs following Bloggercon helps me finger people with quality commentary, such as Hossein Derakhshan (aka Hoder in the English language). As I have reaffirmed following a discussion with Shanghai province today, English bloggers in other countries do not represent the average Internet users.
Hoder has identified some things I know would improve blogging on the international level.
- We need tools that index popular posts based on languages. And then initiatives to get them translated.
- Encourage English teaching institutes to promote blogs among their students.
- Promote Unicode standard among English speaking programmers. Many tools do not work well with Unicode and this sucks.
- We should expand Bloglet-like services. They send out emails including favorite weblog posts everyday using their RSS feeds.
- We should have more of these conferences in audio-style or IRC. More regular, more structured.
- We should encourage local celebrities, journalists, and politicians start blogging. These people help accelerate the adoption of technology. Iran's vice president is blogging. He loves blogs and posts everyday on his. His mobile photos are amazing. What politician in the world is this cool to take and post mobile photos in his/her blog?
- Mainstream media can start some radio programs reading blogs, either English ones or translations of them. Radio is the best medium to promote blogs.
Hossein Derakhshan -- "Brainstorming at Bloggercon: International blogging"
Tara Gillet-Liloia -- "Blogging BloggerCon"
Dave Weinberger -- "BloggerCon"
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