This is an demonstration entry of my blogging prowess!
UPDATE: Apologies for the obscure post. I posted this live while talking at the BC Association of Integrated Marketers Christmas luncheon. I won’t post my slides, because they’re entirely comprised of screenshots, photos and movies. For those who attended, here’s a quick list of sites which I referred to in my talk:
Sample Blogs
- GM’s Fastlane – Blog by senior executives at GM
- Funeral Words – The first funeral blog I found
- Yoga Journal – Conference blogging for yoga?
Popular Blogs
- Slashdot – CNN for nerds
- Boing Boing – Pop culture and amusing weirdness
- Engadget – For your gadgetry festishists
- Instapundit – Popular political blog
- Dooce – Probably the most popular English-language online diary in the world (I’m speculating–anybody got alternate suggestions?)
Rest of Presentation
- The origin of my stupid diagram
- English Cut – Saville Row tailor
- Robert Scoble – Rose in Microsoft’s lapel, thorn in Microsoft’s side
- Microsoft
makes u-turn on gay rights issue - MSDN Blogs – All (most? many?) of Microsoft’s blogs in one place
- Zip.ca – Leading DVD rent-by-mail company in Canada
- Google results for Zip.ca
- Boris’s entry on Zip.ca – Witness the consumer backlash
- Technorati search for Nooked
- Bikeforums.net – The origin of the Kryptonite lock video
- One of many lock-picking videos
- Kryptonite Locks
- Kryptonite class action lawsuit
- Technorati – Search the live web. Currently, the best spot to find blogs for a particular interest or industry
- iTunes Podcast directory
- Rocketboom – Popular vlog
Other Links
If I had more time, I’d have talked about some popular social software tools that bloggers use to connect and extend their relationships online. A few of these are:
- Flickr – Photosharing service
- Delicious – Social bookmarking tool. BCAIM folks may be interested in this link list I assembled for another talk.
- 43 Things and 43
Places – Aspirational sites, of a kind
DarrenBarefoot.com 
This is a demonstration of my commenting prowess!
Excellent presentation today, Darren!
Hey, did you know Hop Studios helped with the Yoga Journal blogs? It’s a long, twisty but ultimately relaxing story.
Also in Firefox, try tabbing through the comment fields — they don’t flow in the order I expected them to.
TTFN
Travis
It’s one thing to be popular, it’s another to have a site with great content.
The following sites may not be as popular as Dooce, but they’re definitely worth regular visits:
vanderwoning.ca
JimFormation
BWG: Ignoring the fact that Ray’s your brother, vanderwoning.ca isn’t even a blog. I mean, I really dig Ray’s photos, but the title reads ‘Popular Blogs’.
I list popular blogs as part of my presentation because people inevitably ask for some popular examples. You’ll note the funeral and yoga blogs aren’t exactly household names.
I was at the presentation today. In fact I was at your table. Sorry we didn’t chance to meet. You were swarmed afterwards and I had a meeting to get to.
I teach marketing at BCIT and you had a couple of slides that were really intriguing: blogging’s rate of growth on the net and the bar graph that showed search engine results pre and post blog. These were great in that they showed some tangible stats. Great stuff for students. I’d love to get my hands on these. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
I was referred here by a fellow knitting blogger and I need to post a comment about the snickering done at this said meeting toward knitting blogs…has anyone realized that knitting-related vendors are making that much more selling their products because of knitting blogs? It’s not just for “Grandma’s” or “older” women anymore…knitting has branched out far and wide to include men and young women! People ought to take a moment to look at some of the really stylish knitting garments being made today as well as analyze the knitting industry and the effect of knitting blogs. Once that’s done, they can snicker if they want to.
My mistake.
I meant to point to CausticSense.