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And, will the number below be the one to call when they're on their way?
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Vielmetti [mailto:edward.vielmetti@...]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:59 AM
To: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Subject: Re: Blogging questions

Best to call ahead at 734-276-5910 - the office
is tucked away back in the corner! - and pretty
hard to find. It's on the 4th floor of the Shapiro
Library with a sign on the door labelled "Internet
Public Library", and it's back by the maps and
atlases.

A better place to meet would be in West Hall
on the 3d floor in the faculty lounge right by
the stairs on the way up - there are some much
more photogenic spots there.

thanks

Ed

On 7/31/06, Kosmetatos, Sofia < skosmetatos@...> wrote:

Ok, we'll try for the morning then. Please let me know where in the
library your office is, and we'll find you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Vielmetti [mailto:edward.vielmetti@...]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:47 AM
To: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Subject: Re: Blogging questions

Hi Sofia -

Good times for tomorrow for photos would be before 11am
or after 3:30pm - I have a meeting at noon and a teleconference
at 2pm to work around. thanks!

Ed

On 7/31/06, Kosmetatos, Sofia <skosmetatos@...> wrote:

Excellent, I will try for today, but will you be around any time at

all

tomorrow if I can't get someone over today?
Thanks
Sofia

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Vielmetti [mailto: edward.vielmetti@...]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:27 PM
To: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Subject: Re: Blogging questions

Sofia -

I'd be happy to have a picture taken. Monday would
be a good day - let me know a good time, and I'll
be available (afternoon would be best). My office is
on the UM campus in the Shapiro Library, though really
anywhere on central campus would work for a photo.

thanks

Ed

On 7/29/06, Edward Vielmetti <emv@...> wrote:

Hi Sofia - I'm 41 yrs old - here's notes that I blogged about it:




thanks

Ed

On 7/28/06, Kosmetatos, Sofia < skosmetatos@...> wrote:

Ed- Thanks. If you get this, please answer one more - how old

are

you?

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: edward.vielmetti@...

[mailto:edward.vielmetti@...]

On

Behalf Of Edward Vielmetti
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:02 PM
To: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Subject: Re: Blogging questions

On 7/27/06, Kosmetatos, Sofia < skosmetatos@...> wrote:

Thanks again for your time today. I'm so sorry I had to cut

you

off.

Here

are some questions that I have:

Is there any way to track how many bloggers there are in

Michigan

and

Metro

Detroit? What's the blogging community like here?

There's a group of Ann Arbor area bloggers who are pretty well
connected;
is a link to one event, which

had

17

people
on the attend/watch list. That's the closest thing I can tell

to

a

"blogging community".
I see people clustering around a couple of blogs that get a lot

of

comment
traffic, including
- Arbor Update,
- Ann Arbor is Overrated
- Ypsi Dixit,
- Hamtramck Star,

These are each civic blogs. The biggest non-newspaper
forum is Detroit Yes
-

Who are bloggers nowadays? Young/old/college educated? (is

this

something

you can speak to?)

If you are blogging these days, you are writing, a lot, for
an audience. This tends to skew the people doing it
to folks who are more educated, and who are younger
and have more time on their hands. I'm one of the older
bloggers that I know, except for Larry Kestenbaum
(Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds) who
has been blogging as part of his job at his blog
"Polygon, the Dancing Bear".

Who reads your blog?

I have three blogs that regularly get updated, each
with their own demographic.

For work, I write for the Community Information
Corps blog at . This is
aimed at students, faculty, staff and alumni of
the University of Michigan School of Information,
and it also is read by prospective students.

My Vacuum blog at
is read by people who know me from wherever
(in a dozen jobs in a few different fields over 20+
years on the net I have accumulated a good number
of friends). There's a steady stream of search
engine traffic there too.

I started a blog "Superpatron" at
when
I found that I was writing about library issues a
lot. That has 900+ subscribers around the world
and many of them are librarians or information
school people.

Why do you think blogging is so popular today? What accounts

for

its

explosion over the past few years, from personal use to

corporate

America

use?

The tools have gotten easier to use. Once upon
a time you needed to understand HTML to keep
a blog up, so most people didn't bother; now all
the mechanical parts are automated so you can
focus on your writing or your photography.

People have discovered that blogger pages
rank high in Google searches for a lot of topics,
and that getting good blog traffic is significantly
easier than any other way of manufacturing
the "own page one" kinds of hit results you want.

Think about popular blogs by Detroiters. Can you recommend any

in

the

political arena? Any about Detroit in general? Do you know any

other

bloggers who fit into these categories who might speak with

me?

The Hamtramck Star blog is a great example,
though not strictly speaking Detroit. Detroit
Yes, and it's companion photo essays The
Fabulous Ruins of Detroit are really good.

I've been disappointed by local political blogs
and haven't had the stomach to follow any of them
except for the very local Ann Arbor stuff I watch.

There isn't much blog activity in the Upper Peninsula.

Also, can you speak to marketing and blogs. Has this become a

medium

through

which to reach more audiences?

Yes, blogs can help you market what you are doing
in ways that other web site techniques can't. Good
people to talk to there would be Andy King at
Web Site Optimization, Catherine Juon at
Pure Visibility, or Andy Seidl at Myst Technologies.

hope this is useful - let me know anything else
I can do

Thanks for your help.

Have a great vacation.

Sofia

PS - Will you be around on Monday or this weekend? Can we come

and

take your

picture?





-----Original Message-----
From: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:41 PM
To: 'emv@...'
Subject: Blogs in Michigan



Hi Ed,



As promised, here's my information and some of my questions.

I've

been

told

you are the authority on blogs at the University of Michigan.

Please

tell me

a little bit about yourself and your blog knowledge/research,

and

your

affiliation with the university..



So you know where I'm coming from...on the heels of the Pew

study

about

bloggers, I was tasked with finding out about Michigan's

blogging

community,

and with profiling several prominent bloggers in metro

Detroit.

I'm

hoping

you can help with identifying several people in the following

sectors:

autos, technology, politics, personal (with a focus on Detroit

happenings).

This is the most time-sensitive question, as we'd have to

schedule

photographs in advance. Is there a way to track unique

visitors

or

daily

visitors to blogs? How is the popularity of a blog measured?



Other questions: Do you have an idea of how many bloggers

there

are in

Michigan and Metro Detroit? If not, who might? This is a weird

one,

but is a

site like autoextremist.com considered a blog? What makes a

blog?

Please feel free to call me on my land line at work, where

I'll

surely

be

for another couple of hours (313)222-2401, or on my cell phone

at

646-431-8423.



Thanks in advance for your time. Oh, and of course tell me

about

your

blog,

please. I look forward to hearing from you.



Sofia Kosmetatos

Business reporter

The Detroit News

On 7/27/06, Kosmetatos, Sofia < skosmetatos@...> wrote:

Hi Ed -



Thanks again for your time today. I'm so sorry I had to cut

you

off.

Here

are some questions that I have:

Is there any way to track how many bloggers there are in

Michigan

and

Metro

Detroit? What's the blogging community like here?

Who are bloggers nowadays? Young/old/college educated? (is

this

something

you can speak to?)

Who reads your blog?



Why do you think blogging is so popular today? What accounts

for

its

explosion over the past few years, from personal use to

corporate

America

use?



Think about popular blogs by Detroiters. Can you recommend any

in

the

political arena? Any about Detroit in general? Do you know any

other

bloggers who fit into these categories who might speak with

me?

Also, can you speak to marketing and blogs. Has this become a

medium

through

which to reach more audiences?



Thanks for your help.

Have a great vacation.

Sofia

PS - Will you be around on Monday or this weekend? Can we come

and

take your

picture?





-----Original Message-----
From: Kosmetatos, Sofia
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:41 PM
To: 'emv@...'
Subject: Blogs in Michigan



Hi Ed,



As promised, here's my information and some of my questions.

I've

been

told

you are the authority on blogs at the University of Michigan.

Please

tell me

a little bit about yourself and your blog knowledge/research,

and

your

affiliation with the university..



So you know where I'm coming from...on the heels of the Pew

study

about

bloggers, I was tasked with finding out about Michigan's

blogging

community,

and with profiling several prominent bloggers in metro

Detroit.

I'm

hoping

you can help with identifying several people in the following

sectors:

autos, technology, politics, personal (with a focus on Detroit

happenings).

This is the most time-sensitive question, as we'd have to

schedule

photographs in advance. Is there a way to track unique

visitors

or

daily

visitors to blogs? How is the popularity of a blog measured?



Other questions: Do you have an idea of how many bloggers

there

are in

Michigan and Metro Detroit? If not, who might? This is a weird

one,

but is a

site like autoextremist.com considered a blog? What makes a

blog?

Please feel free to call me on my land line at work, where

I'll

surely

be

for another couple of hours (313)222-2401, or on my cell phone

at

646-431-8423.



Thanks in advance for your time. Oh, and of course tell me

about

your

blog,

please. I look forward to hearing from you.



Sofia Kosmetatos

Business reporter

The Detroit News

i know it's old-school, but i just use the command-line client. for
large code projects i end up working in a shell mostly anyway. the
out-of-box code snap of svn builds and installs fine on the mac:



or you can use one of the pre-built mac dmgs of a relatively similar
vintage (and universal binaries, even):


client-1.3.1.dmg

or, my fave, you can use 'fink', and with it get a lot of other
necessary bits too (latex for one):



it's not always the most current versions of stuff, but they are
usually well tested, and the raw volume of extra apps that you can
get make up for some of the sloth in getting versions current:



bob

On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Scott Trudeau wrote:

I've been using svnX ... haven't tried it with Google.


features/

Scott

On 8/4/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

I'm looking at using the new Google open source
project repository Google Code to manage a project,
having grown weary of FTP'ing files around and
not really knowing what version they are.

Can someone recommend a good SVN client
for the Mac? I installed a 30-day trial of
ZigVersion and it was sufficiently obscure
in use and ill-documented internally that
I was not able to get all the way through
to checking something in.

thanks

Ed



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I've been using svnX ... haven't tried it with Google.

features/

Scott

On 8/4/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

I'm looking at using the new Google open source
project repository Google Code to manage a project,
having grown weary of FTP'ing files around and
not really knowing what version they are.

Can someone recommend a good SVN client
for the Mac? I installed a 30-day trial of
ZigVersion and it was sufficiently obscure
in use and ill-documented internally that
I was not able to get all the way through
to checking something in.

thanks

Ed



Yahoo! Groups Links

--
.|..
Scott Trudeau
scott.trudeau AT gmail DOT com

AIM: sodthestreets



Yahoo! Groups Links

I'm looking at using the new Google open source
project repository Google Code to manage a project,
having grown weary of FTP'ing files around and
not really knowing what version they are.

Can someone recommend a good SVN client
for the Mac? I installed a 30-day trial of
ZigVersion and it was sufficiently obscure
in use and ill-documented internally that
I was not able to get all the way through
to checking something in.

thanks

Ed



Yahoo! Groups Links