Yahoo! has new Guide to RSS from a publisher´s perspective. It would provides a good overview with links to relevant resources; of course, it´s biased towards Yahoo!

Just completed upgrading to WordPress 1.5.1 …very easy upgrade process….again, convincing me that WordPress was a good choice. I had previously been a fan of MoveableType and had subscribed to TypePad but disliked the charges associated with it. While I do have an old bias for Perl-based systems such as MoveableType, I find that the php approach of WordPress is quite solid. Of course, it really doesn´t matter rather it´s perl or php, especially at the user level…either system could be developed in either language. But, WordPress seems to be gathering a lot of momentum this year. Okay, now to upgrade my baires.elsur.org blog.

I´m currently watching/listening to a video file of a conference session from the Vloggercon 2005 that was held in New York. The video is titled Content is King .

While I don´t want to disparage any of the participant´s contribution to the session, it appears that the title for this session could have equally been Content is blah blah blah. Of course, that´s true for so much (most?, some would say all) blogging.

From what appeared at this session, vlogging appeared to be the same as any other personal blogging except that the person is using a video rather than typing text. Perhaps it just the early stages of applying this technology. Perhaps these early adopters of vlogging will evolve to more substantial content (and I certainly expect that is true for these vloggers).

The third speaker of the session, Steve Garfield, traces his evolving use of vlogging from a little video on Making Toast to more intriguing personal journalism where he and his wife record a short video news segment for the blog on the start of the Boston marathon.

The availability of digital video cameras, simple editing tools such as iMovie, and the ease of blogging will certainly create a vibrant and even more interesting set of additions to the Internet.

Indeed, as the session continues, Steve Garfield shows that he himself has evolved from ´´making toast´´ to a vlogging form that has serious content. His vlog of the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004 is a groundbreaking video blog and sets a high standard for video blogs.

Vloggercon seems to be an exciting an interesting confernece. I look forward to seeing how this form of expression evolves.