2008 & Search

I am currently testing a new 'Search' facility on BLAB!(right). Check it out and send your feedback. In the meantime, we wish you a great new year, full of BLABs and more.

Also, I am drawing up a (wish)list of topics about which to BLAB in 2008. Please do send any suggestions or ideas!

Why BLAB anyways? - (Part 2)

Before 2007 is over, I would like to introduce Seth Godin to the list of featured faces on this blog. In this particular post I would like to share with you his latest eBook ('...and your clicks for free'), which is the best 5 minute read for those of us who dream to have a popular, frequently visited, online space in 2008.

According to Seth Godin good web pages that generate traffic have to have Unique, Useful and Updated content...if you're too busy to read more you may stop here. This is what we need to do for a successful web page. Work on it!

Seth Godin's book provides another reason for me to continue BLABbing:

Reason #4: Making the web a bit better
Any good idea, be it content or the greatest invention, is more about the audience than the author or inventor.

Successful pages are the ones which provide a unique and useful resource which is always updated. Hence Google, Yahoo and a couple of others are the pages we go to when we need all sorts of things. I hope and dream that BLAB! will become one useful resource soon.

Follow this link and go through Seth Godin useful tips. It shouldn't take you longer then 5 minutes.

Happy Christmas!

Why BLAB anyways?

BLAB is 2 months and 1 week old. During the past weeks we have blabbed about detailed posts such as the new timesofmalta.com, the American Magazine Conference 2007 and The Body Shop Story. Some quick posts included Nokia World 2007, Alexandra Pace's HotCouture photoshoot and di-ve.com.

Blab has also been featured several times in the Viral Video Chart thanks to content related to successful virals. Virals that featured on this blog included the Cadbury Gorillaz Viral, the successful story of Marie-Digby over YouTube, and the ever mostly viewed 'The Evolution of Dance'.

During 2007, Kylie Minogue and Kevin Roberts also featured in our blog. Apart from all this, the usual YouTube, Google and Facebook blabs were almost regular.

Having gone through the past blabs I am personally surprised at the amount of varied content we've posted. Visits to the blog have also been encouraging, and these do not include users who read our blog through flog (the facebook version of BLABinteractive), yet I sometimes do feel my posts are echoing back in a virtual empty space.

And this gets me to the big question...why blog anyway? I discovered blogging some 5 months ago when I got into the working world. Since then I try to read blogs on a regular basis since this helps me a lot in my daily work. I must admit that December has been very busy and this resulted in less blogging. Before the end of 2007, i will draw up a list of reason which make blogging worthwhile. Feel free to add more (even if you're reading this in 2008):

Reason #1: Knowledge Sharing
Good blogs such as GomoNews (my personal favourite) and many others are a knowledge resource at work and good (intimate) content at home. Through blogging I got to share many ideas with friends and discovered many new things.

Reason #2: Content Filtering
There's too much content for us to digest. Blogs filter this content and provide concise and relevant versions of it. Blogs also allow us to back track on past content which we would have not come across.

Reason #3: Personal Content
My blog is a log of most of the interesting content and articles I come across. I was able to go through the posts of the past 2 months thanks to Blogger and its search facility!