Do you have a Ham Radio Blog?
Are you a ham or SWL and do you run a blog? And you want to have more visitors?
Have you thought about submitting it to the Ham Radio Blogs Directory? Ham-Blogs.net offers a comprehensive list of ham & amateur radio related blogs, sorted by interest (e.g. qrp, dx, contest etc.) or country.
So if you have a blog which deals with radio, submit it right away.
August 31st, 2007 15:07
I submitted my blog to them a while back as well, but I have to say I haven’t really received all that much traffic from their site, but it is a neat collection of ham radio blogs.
73, KI4WLR
http://www.ki4wlr.com
September 1st, 2007 09:27
I am getting more and more convinced that the typical amateur radio operator and web 2.0 is some sort of a contradiction.
Hams are pretty active on the web, but IMHO the majority still sticks to forums, mailinglists and “classical” websites. Although there exists a lot of ham radio blogs I doubt that every one is (still) active.
Time will tell…
P.S.: You have a nice blog!
September 2nd, 2007 12:36
@Chris: in the beginning a blog was (more or less) an online diary. Now they’re complete CMS (Content Management System) implementations.
There’s not much difference anymore between a blog and a conventional website. A log is just easier to maintain.
Hans
September 3rd, 2007 06:16
I agree with you (sort of).
Typical blogs are IMHO still far away from a plain CMS. I recently relaunched the non-blog part of my website (http://ham-blog.de). I wanted to use WordPress as it is relatively easy to maintain and the occupied space is not too big.
But WordPress is still far away from a plain CMS. I had to mod it pretty heavily to get CMS feeling. Joomla, Drupal, Etomite etc. are more like a CMS but don’t work too good as a blogging platform (although Drupal is a very flexible platform due to its modular structure) and they eat up a huge amount of webspace.
What I meant was that hams are (at least from my experience) pretty reluctant to comment on articles (there are exceptions!). One should think that hams are a pretty “communicative” species.