A lot of free blogging ’spaces’ have sprung up since back in the day and an interesting way of looking at them is to see what communities they support (or don’t). For example, Blogger supports no particular community which LiveJournal supports an obviously more specific community as does Blogdrive.

Of particular interest though is that the communities here are invariably communities of age, backgrounds & interest. That is, there’s very little beyond a few web-rings or subdivisions of popular blog sites (examples taken from webring & Xanga) and this isn’t really much use if you’re looking for ways in which…

Here’s a little tip about how to get yourself better search results, use the same domain.

Basically if you, for example, have a blog at incsub.org/blog and one at incsub.org and one at incsub.org/flashy then the links that each of these pick up will help launch each other… granted not to the same degree but they certainly will.

Having considered yesterday the ins and outs of how your professional blog can look (based of a case study of, well, this one ) today’s installment is looking at the dynamics of your blog… in particular how you can use RSS, comments, email and more to engage your blogging (& those who just find you) readership.

First up a favorite of mine… comments. Ever since my blogging salad days of Radio I’ve been yearning for a simple ’subscribe to comments’ function which allows people to get an email when someone else posts a comment on a feed and well, my…

Via Darren here’s an excellent post on pre-launching your blog for success, which, not unsurprisingly is something I’ve been thinking about of late.

I’ve been tinkering with IncSub for a long lime now, trying to find a sustainable model for the free hosting for teachers stuff that we do and it’s never really worked out because the point of IncSub has always been about sharing, discussion and helping teachers engaging with technology, not operating as a professional consultant.

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Via Lindon, a coupla days back Dana Blankenhorn rounded up some interesting discussion from Blognashville by looking at blogging business models, in particular by comparing our current blogging experience to those of the gold fields:

“There’s a Clue there. Nearly all those 49′ers (and Alaska 98′ers) who went in with pick and shovel failed. It was those who went in with a business model, professional mining companies or merchants such as Levi Strauss, who succeeded.”

He goes on to introduce a few different models, namely (to name a few) the ‘getting people to blog’ Blogger or MSN Spaces models, the…