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Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers
Among more than 102,000,000 blogs, a few stand out as influential, ground-breaking, and singularly successful. These thirty bloggers, who write about everything from business trends to parenting, have been featured in "Wired" magazine, "Popular Science," and on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and "20/20." In one-on-one conversations with Michael A. Banks, th...more
Hardcover, 298 pages
Published
December 1st 2007
by John Wiley & Sons
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This book offered valuable insight from the minds behind several successful blogs. Despite the book being a little dated (it's kind of sad when a book published in 2008 can seem dated), it still offers good information. It would have been nice to have a closing chapter summing up all the insight and specific suggestions, especially to point out what was most frequently suggested and/or the conflicting pieces of advice. The book did have points of review for every chapter, but by the time you g...more
This is a great book for people who are just beginning to blog. Michael Banks has picked top bloggers and interviewed them. Each one has given specific responses on what can help you to blog better. There suggestions make a lot of sense and are easy to follow. I would recommend this book to learning bloggers.
A pretty spiffy book on a bunch of the most well-known and 'best' bloggers out there. I put the quotes around best, because I learned that every person doesn't like the same blogs. Shocking, right? Someone might like Engadget over Gizmodo (and it doesn't really matter whether you know what that is or not), and there isn't one real blogosphere. There's a zillion, all depending on what it is you write about. You could be part of 7 different blogospheres at once.
It's also pretty cool t...more
It's also pretty cool t...more
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anybody wanting to understand a technology that is changing their world.
Okay, most of us blog for the fun of it, to keep in touch, to put ourselves out there in the world, to say what we want to say to, hopefully, a larger audience. But blogging can become a commitment, a business, obsessive, or a tool for change. Blogging Heroes provides interviews with 30 notable bloggers, telling about their blogs, how they began blogging, what it requires of them, how they make an income from it, what they think is required to be a successful blogger, and much more. From Chri...more
I'm not sure about this book, it's basically a set of interviews with people who have achieved some measure of success as bloggers. If you're looking to start a blog, it's a worth at least skimming. If you're doing a soc-sci/anthropology paper on blogging you could pick up a few tips on interviewing here.
Everyone else? umm...maybe.
Everyone else? umm...maybe.
read a more extended review of this book on my blog at:
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcau...
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcau...
It's always hard to document any internet phenoms, but this one does a fairly good job.
great, useful book, but a little tech heavy.
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Michael A. Banks is the author of 43 books, the most recent of which is Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. He also wrote the New York Times bestseller CROSLEY: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation, The eBay Survival Guide, and several science fiction novels, as well as a number of other non-fiction books. New books scheduled for June and Au...more
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