Hmm... good question. Just as there are best practices for how often to send an e-newsletter (monthly is a good bet), so is there an etiquette for how often to blog. I've been reading up on this as well as scouting around to look at the date stamps on some other Weblogs. The one-word answer is "regularly." The second part of the answer is to be upfront and tell your audience what your blogging schedule is going to be. This applies whether you Hmm... good question. Just as there are best practices for how often to send an e-newsletter (monthly is a good bet), so is there an etiquette for how often to blog. I've been reading up on this as well as scouting around to look at the date stamps on some other Weblogs. The one-word answer is "regularly." The second part of the answer is to be upfront and tell your audience what your blogging schedule is going to be. This applies whether you consider your Weblog personal or an adjunct to your business site. I confess. In the rush to get this blog launched I neglected to nail down that detail. For now, expect a new post several times a week. No promises to blog every day.

My friend and colleague Rebecca Lieb has got it spot on in her ClickZ column today. Rebecca is executive editor of internet.com's Interactive Marketing channel (which includes ClickZ) so she's not a distinterested party to the concept of B (for business) blogging. ClickZ was the sponsor of this week's conference on Weblogs. She writes: "Blogs are fast, direct, honest, and raw. And despite protests from some purist bloggers, they're steadily My friend and colleague Rebecca Lieb has got it spot on in her ClickZ column today. Rebecca is executive editor of internet.com's Interactive Marketing channel (which includes ClickZ) so she's not a distinterested party to the concept of B (for business) blogging. ClickZ was the sponsor of this week's conference on Weblogs. She writes: "Blogs are fast, direct, honest, and raw. And despite protests from some purist bloggers, they're steadily being adopted as marketing tools... So, marketers. How can you harness a viral tornado for your business?" Good question... well, here's an obvious example. JupiterMedia, ClickZ's parent company, couldn't have asked for better promotion of their event than the real-time blogging by attendees. Was it all positive? No, but that's the point. It created big-time buzz at NO COST. Read her column.

OK, it's obvious I have a new addiction. First it was email (still is; spend way too much time on it). Now it's blogging. Last post for today... Eammon Fitzgerald writes intelligently on how we (the U.S.) should be dealing with the military dictatorship that has Burma (Myanmar) in a stranglehold. I traveled to Myanmar in February of this year and was profoundly affected by the beauty of the country and the gentleness of the people. Buddhism OK, it's obvious I have a new addiction. First it was email (still is; spend way too much time on it). Now it's blogging. Last post for today... Eammon Fitzgerald writes intelligently on how we (the U.S.) should be dealing with the military dictatorship that has Burma (Myanmar) in a stranglehold. I traveled to Myanmar in February of this year and was profoundly affected by the beauty of the country and the gentleness of the people. Buddhism suffuses the daily rhythms of life in a way that is hard to ignore - and tempting to embrace. You can read my comment at the end of Eammon's blog entry.

Good interview by Eamonn Fitzgerald with German e-business consultant and blogger Martin Roell that explains it clearly. It's in English. I met Martin at the ClickZ blogging conference. He's very young and very smart. Note the little country flags in the upper right-hand corner of his blog. Click on one to translate from German into English, French, Spanish, etc. Clever, huh?! Good interview by Eamonn Fitzgerald with German e-business consultant and blogger Martin Roell that explains it clearly. It's in English. I met Martin at the ClickZ blogging conference. He's very young and very smart. Note the little country flags in the upper right-hand corner of his blog. Click on one to translate from German into English, French, Spanish, etc. Clever, huh?!

Two things you should know if you're planning to attend an Internet-related conference any time soon. 1) Bring your laptop with WiFi (wireless Internet) card so you can post to your blog, IM (instant message) and heckle the panelists and speakers with your smart comments - all in real time of course. 'Course you can also surf the Web, check your email, or do any number of things on your laptop instead of listening. Don't believe me? Follow Two things you should know if you're planning to attend an Internet-related conference any time soon. 1) Bring your laptop with WiFi (wireless Internet) card so you can post to your blog, IM (instant message) and heckle the panelists and speakers with your smart comments - all in real time of course. 'Course you can also surf the Web, check your email, or do any number of things on your laptop instead of listening. Don't believe me? Follow this link (courtesy of Martin Roell) to download the transcript of the IRC real-time chat that took place on day two of ClickZ's blog conference. Attendees were heckling (controversial) speaker Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn. 2) Don't forget to bring your digital camera and take pictures of everybody. Here are some good photos of the ClickZ Weblog conference by Dan Bricklin. Here's a photo of me…

That's the essence of a Web log, according to Blogger exec Jason Shellen, who gave a great keynote at this week's blogging conference. He's Associate Program Manager of Blogger (just acquired by Google and one of the most commonly used tools to create blogs). WRITE: you "blog" your thought or commentary and post or publish it through a Web-based tool like Blogger or Movable Type (which I'm using). READ: once it's published everyone can read That's the essence of a Web log, according to Blogger exec Jason Shellen, who gave a great keynote at this week's blogging conference. He's Associate Program Manager of Blogger (just acquired by Google and one of the most commonly used tools to create blogs). WRITE: you "blog" your thought or commentary and post or publish it through a Web-based tool like Blogger or Movable Type (which I'm using). READ: once it's published everyone can read it. CONNECT: You want as many people as possible to read your blog post. But you also want lots of them to COMMENT on your entry. This is where blogging becomes an ongoing, public conversation. It's much more interactive than sending out an e-newsletter. If one of your newsletter readers responds to you, no one else can read the feedback. In the blogosphere, everybody's input counts. One blog post can spark…