This page has two purposes:
1. To let you see how easy it is to publish content to the web.
2. To help you compare two different web publishing systems: Blogger and MovableType.
Blogger
Blogger is the most popular web publishing system. The name comes from
contraction of "web log" into "blog". And thus one who creates a blog is a 'bloggrer".
If you want to see the web page (or blog) before you edit it, go to: blogger_demo.
After you've had a look around, it's time for you to add some content
1. Please go to this web site: www.blogger.com
2. On the right side enter the username: blogflog.
And then the password: ogog
3. Once the new window has appeared, click on "Try Blogger"'
4. Once the editing environment has appeared, type in a brief message in the white editing window.
5. Once the message is written, click on "Post & Publish" just above the upper right edge of the editing window.
6. Finaly click on "view web page" just below the lower left edge of the editing area.
MovableType
MovableType is a more sophisticated - and more complicated web
publishing system.
1. View the blog: www.theo.us/movabletype
2. Edit the blog: www.theo.us/cgi-bin/mt.cgi
~ username: Melody
~ password: Nelson
Note; both entries are case sensitive.
3. Click on "LOG IN".
4. In the Main Menu page, underneat where it says "MovableType Web Log Demonstration", click on "new Entry".
5. In the Edit Entry page; Enter a title, set the Post Status to "Publish" by clicking on the down arrow; enter soe text into the "Entry Body" area; and finally press "Save".
6. On the menu to the left, click on "View Site".
The list of features supported by MovableType is extensive, for example MovableType supports Hold/Release status — allow for content editorial and approval by setting entries to "Hold", then let an editor approve by marking "Release", at which point the entries will be published on your site.
And MovableType has a built-in comment system — allows visitors to post comments on your entries and engage in conversations. MovableType supports comments either inline in your blog, or in popup windows; it also allows you to selectively exclude commenting on certain posts.
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
There is a popular word that is used when you are trying to topsy-turvy things: The word is "extreme" as in Extreme Science and Extreme Programming. So why not Extreme Publishing?
With the Internet, people are publishing content in ways the world has never seen before. Various Internet technologies enable this new medium: 1. web logs, 2. open source 3. wireless, always-on broadband access.
These new tools will change publishing much more than the DeskTop Publishing revolution of the 1980's.
This web site is an attempt to explore this new thing "by eating your own dog food". This site was created and is being updated using Blogger. Even the menu to the left Is a page in Blogger that can be updated from any computer connected to the Internet.
Definitions
My current definition of Extreme Publishing is an effective, unscheduled, sequential collaborative environment for publishing content available to the public by fully effective use of modern media.
"Effective" means influential, able to induce change, bringing an advantage.
"Un-scheduled" means there are no fixed quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily editions. When there is little news is little news is published, but maybe more analysis and background are published and vice versa. but content is generally published as and when it is ready.
"Sequential" means that new content appears in such a way that you can easily discern what is new and what you have read before. For example, new material is often added at the top of the page, moving older material down the page.
"Collaborative" means that there several people involved, the roles of journalist and the editor are supported, and the effort may involve the full panoply of resources available in traditional publishing
"Publishing" means make known to the public as opposed to selected or known recipients. In other words you never know who is going to be exposed to the content.
"Content" might be any publishable material including text, drawings, music, phone calls, videos, JavaScript or computer code.
"Modern media" means computer screen, telephony, various wireless technologies, and the output of any device that happens to be connected to the Internet.
Last Things First
Well, I guess it should be "Last things Second" since this is the second section. Normally if you are starting a publishing empire first you do a lot of stuff and at last you begin publishing something.
With Extreme Publishing you start the other way around. You publish first and then do the organizing. The idea is that if people like your idea they will come on board and the thing will get going. If they don't like your idea, then it's up to you to give up or improve the thing.
So the first thing you notice is that what you are reading is a web page and that you can add comments (soon) and that this "story" was first published just hours after it was dreamed up.
The second thing is that the essence of Extreme Publishing is that it is merely a medium in the sense that a newspaper, magazines and broadcasts are different media for expressing content. Thus content is still queen.
Being a modern media it is extremely flexible. For example, you might want to create your content using handwriting. So let's say I give you a tablet PC and your handwriting is instantly transformed into text. And then, perhaps, we might then transform your text into speech appearing to come from an on-screen avatar. But no matter how great the content may look, it is, as always, garbage on, garbage off.
More of the essential elements of Extreme Publishing are listed in the Features and Benefits section of the Background page.
With the Internet, people are publishing content in ways the world has never seen before. Various Internet technologies enable this new medium: 1. web logs, 2. open source 3. wireless, always-on broadband access.
These new tools will change publishing much more than the DeskTop Publishing revolution of the 1980's.
This web site is an attempt to explore this new thing "by eating your own dog food". This site was created and is being updated using Blogger. Even the menu to the left Is a page in Blogger that can be updated from any computer connected to the Internet.
Definitions
My current definition of Extreme Publishing is an effective, unscheduled, sequential collaborative environment for publishing content available to the public by fully effective use of modern media.
"Effective" means influential, able to induce change, bringing an advantage.
"Un-scheduled" means there are no fixed quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily editions. When there is little news is little news is published, but maybe more analysis and background are published and vice versa. but content is generally published as and when it is ready.
"Sequential" means that new content appears in such a way that you can easily discern what is new and what you have read before. For example, new material is often added at the top of the page, moving older material down the page.
"Collaborative" means that there several people involved, the roles of journalist and the editor are supported, and the effort may involve the full panoply of resources available in traditional publishing
"Publishing" means make known to the public as opposed to selected or known recipients. In other words you never know who is going to be exposed to the content.
"Content" might be any publishable material including text, drawings, music, phone calls, videos, JavaScript or computer code.
"Modern media" means computer screen, telephony, various wireless technologies, and the output of any device that happens to be connected to the Internet.
Last Things First
Well, I guess it should be "Last things Second" since this is the second section. Normally if you are starting a publishing empire first you do a lot of stuff and at last you begin publishing something.
With Extreme Publishing you start the other way around. You publish first and then do the organizing. The idea is that if people like your idea they will come on board and the thing will get going. If they don't like your idea, then it's up to you to give up or improve the thing.
So the first thing you notice is that what you are reading is a web page and that you can add comments (soon) and that this "story" was first published just hours after it was dreamed up.
The second thing is that the essence of Extreme Publishing is that it is merely a medium in the sense that a newspaper, magazines and broadcasts are different media for expressing content. Thus content is still queen.
Being a modern media it is extremely flexible. For example, you might want to create your content using handwriting. So let's say I give you a tablet PC and your handwriting is instantly transformed into text. And then, perhaps, we might then transform your text into speech appearing to come from an on-screen avatar. But no matter how great the content may look, it is, as always, garbage on, garbage off.
More of the essential elements of Extreme Publishing are listed in the Features and Benefits section of the Background page.
This blog was created in 2003 to help people understand and practice blogging
This web site practices what it preaches: New ideas can be disseminated faster, cheaper and more easily than ever before. Or, perhaps, that even the dumbest ideas can now be recorded for posterity.
This web site is still several revisions away from doing what it wants to say: provide a cogent analysis of what is now turning the publishing industry inside out while at the same time providing you with the tools for you to do this.
The first thing to do is to browse the the three pages on the menu to the left, then as quickly as you feel comfortable go to the Try It page and just do it.
Once you have posted your message, then you might want to read up on the Manifesto for what you have just done.
Finally, there's a page of Background on all this new stuff.
This web site practices what it preaches: New ideas can be disseminated faster, cheaper and more easily than ever before. Or, perhaps, that even the dumbest ideas can now be recorded for posterity.
This web site is still several revisions away from doing what it wants to say: provide a cogent analysis of what is now turning the publishing industry inside out while at the same time providing you with the tools for you to do this.
The first thing to do is to browse the the three pages on the menu to the left, then as quickly as you feel comfortable go to the Try It page and just do it.
Once you have posted your message, then you might want to read up on the Manifesto for what you have just done.
Finally, there's a page of Background on all this new stuff.