Two quick items that I've recently added to the sidebar on the right worth pointing out.
1. Linking the GOP Convention
I support the Republican National Convention and hope to be there (come on housing!), clicking and camming away on bloggers row and eating candy and drinking vitamin water in Google Lounge. Therefore, I've added that little banner linking the official convention website. This will both help the official convention site with eyeballs from TechRepublicans and with robots for search engines to help with SEO. If you have a blog, myspace page, or another space on the Internets, I'd urge you to grab one of the many banners and link it up on your site and help out the team.
2. Lijit Integration
Underneath the Feedburner chicklet, you'll see a search box powered by Lijit. I played around with it last night after reading a recent post by David Almacy at CapitalGig on the personal value of Facebook which mentioned the service.
I'm giving Lijit a try because it appears to add value to your valued readers by providing a search function to all of your aggregated web properties (like the TechRepublican YouTube and Twitter accounts) and your personal content network (e.g., your blogroll). As the blog owner, I like to see what the "Popular Searches" are because that helps me think on delivering the content that my readers are looking for.
And by the way, applications like Lijit, apps that are "mash-ups" or "pieced together" of many Web 2.0 sites and applications is the beginning of Web 3.0.
I'm going to be thinking and writing more extensively on Web 3.0 and its application to politics in the near future, but for now, feel free to watch and think on how Eric Schmidt of Google defined Web 3.0 back in August:
Comments
Consider Profit sharing and how your stats are used by Widgets
Great Post on Lijit. We at P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] having pending inquires to Widget Providers, including Lijit, concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on how stats from Publishers Blogs are being used.
Will publish these results on http://www.blogpublishersunion.com to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.
Sincerely,
Barney Moran
Founder, P.U.B.
Profit?
You mean there's profit to be shared in blogging?
Heh.
A Lijit thank-you
David, I just wanted to thank you for giving Lijit a try on your blog. It's apparent that you understand the value we offer, both for you and your readers. If you (or your readers) have any feedback about the wijit, feel free to contact me. I'm tara [at] lijit [dot] com.
And to address Barney's comment, we have every intention of sharing revenue with our publishers. As soon as we're making money, our plan is to help our publishers make money also...
Thanks Tara
We're giving it a nice spin around the block to see how our community likes the tool. I think it's got some pretty good early, easily recognizable value.
Cheers.
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