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Give the Gift of Blogging

Today I start my Christmas shopping.  Late I know, but  that seems to be how it goes every year since I have been at U of M.  I'm sure most of you are far more prepared than I am for this holiday season, but nevertheless, I thought some of you newly-established bloggers would be interested in this offer I noticed on TypePad: TypePad promo.  If you renew or upgrade your TypePad subscription, you receive a second free subscription. At $39 a year, not a bad deal if you were interested in continuing the service once our free subscription ends as well as inviting others to join the blogging realm.  Interclass gifting, anyone?  The offer is good until January 15th.  Happy Holidays!
 

befuddled blogging

For some reason when I check the recent posts for our class blog, my most recent blogs don't display.  The same thing happens when I access my blog  through the Weblog Smartspace link.  It doesn't seem to be updating or something because it shows my blog from 11/18 as the most recent, when I actually made two posts on the 23rd.  My recent blogs display in typepad, so i don't know what's up.  Any thoughts?

Add audio to your blogs

For those of you who have played with moblogging, this technology may be of potential interest to you.  Audblog  offers a service to bloggers through which they can record four minute messages by calling their number from any phone.  Audblog then hosts the quicktime audio file and publishes a "play this audio file" graphic on the subscriber's blog.  You can try the service for free, but after the first blog its $3 per month which includes 12 audio blogs per month.  I personally do not feel the urge to have my voice sent across the world wide web, but for those of you who really want to be heard, let me know what you think of the service.    I can definitely see the potential marketing uses of this tool, however, especially for music artists and record companies.