How To Find BLOGS
As a blogger, you may have come across blogs that you like and may want to come back to. You may have even created a blogroll on your site of blogs that you read regularly, or at the very least, bookmarked a few to check out later.
To make things easier, there are many sites that are set up just to help you find blogs. If you're new to the blogosphere and are not familiar with them, this HOW-TO segment lists 12 blog search engines and directories to get you started. You can also list your blog on them so more people can find your blog site and learn more about you. Who knows? You may even make a few friends.
With music being so easy to acquire online, the legalities of using music in podcasts and videoblogs have become a source of worry and concern for the indie media maker who just wants good music for their content without the ever-present threat of lawsuits looming over their heads.
In this second installment in the HOW-TO series, we'll look at how to find podcasts. With the advent of Apple's iPod digital media player and iTunes software, podcasting has taken off like a rocket, ushering in a whole new wave of content and media makers over the last two years. This wave's also brought with it many places to find and host podcasts.
One of the goals of The New Media Collective is to be a source of knowledge to the media making community. To that end, I've created a segment called HOW-TO that will introduce some basic information about various aspects of digital media and the blogosphere.