Andrew’s Blog

There are many reasons to have a personal blog. The most obvious (and frequent) reason is to have a place to keep your friends up-to-date with what you are doing. However, blogs are also a great tool for allowing potential employers or clients to know what you are passionate about and how you think. While I am not currently looking for a change in either of those areas, I decided that it is important to lay the groundwork now.

To begin with, I have finally moved this blog to a permanent home at andrewbredow.com instead of a subdomain to a site that I have no intention of developing any time soon. Any old links to site will be redirected here with 301 (permanent) redirect for the time being, and I will probably get rid of the subdomain altogether in a couple of months.

Additionally, I have made the switch over to Feedburner (which is now owned by Google) for my RSS feed. This will provide me with some better metrics and additional exposure and it also allows the possibility of switching out blogging software while keeping the same feed address. If you are subscribed to the old feed it will continue to work as long as the redirect is in place. However, it would be great if you re-subscribed using the Feedburner feed!

That’s all for now; there are more exciting things coming soon!

This was linked on The Daily Dish today along with the caption “the internet comes full circle”:

http://www.theprintedblog.com/

At first, I thought this is the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. I mean, isn’t the best part of the web that we have access to realtime information free from the constraints of the print publication workflow? Isn’t it great that we don’t have to pay for paper that is simply thrown away? Isn’t the most revolutionary thing about the web as a news source that we have access to perspectives from around the world and we can choose the angle that we are reading on events (c.f. Drudge vs Huffington) or editorial (c.f. Daily Dish vs. Kos)?

The answer to all of these things is “yes.” And this is truly the thing that print media mostly misses. The Printed Blog definitely offers an interesting compromise between traditional print and electronic media. I think that people like me any many of my peers would never pay for a print publication like this, but there may be a portion of newspaper readers who would be turned on to the blogosphere and internet news for the first time if they could consume the content in the same way that they always have: in print. Furthermore, because the content of the paper is voted on according to region, the perspectives represented will more closely mirror that of the locals, as oppose to that of the editors of the paper.

The trickiest obstacle I see for The Printed Blog is getting the paper into the hands of people who don’t already read blogs. But if they are able to accomplish this feat, it could mean bringing a whole new audience to the blogosphere, further broadening the perspectives that are shared online. Thoughts?