CHAPTER 6
New Skills for a New Technology
Even if you’re web-savvy, the learning curve for multimedia blogging can be a bit steep. This chapter is about the new technologies you’ll need to be familiar with.
Podcasts and video blogs are built on blogs. Even if you’ve going straight to podcasting or “vlogging” and have no interest in maintaining a text-based daily journal, you’ll need to learn about them. Blog directories, blog search engines, and blogging syndication are all used by bloggers and podcasters alike. And many blogs are now “hybrid”—a combination of text, pictures, documents, audio and video.
This chapter covers:
• Blog Basics
– XML vs. HTML
– Push technology
– Enclosures
– Streaming vs. downloads
• The Blogosphere ...
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