Conference blogging can be a way to share the phenomenal insights you're gaining and resources you're learning about with folks who weren't able to attend.

But how can you stay on top of writing about your experience if your schedule is completely packed with, well, the conference?

Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani have put together a six-page document, "Tips for Conference Bloggers," and made it available under a Creative Commons license for anyone to freely download and use.

If you are brilliant, know your way around Dreamweaver, can write profound blog posts, and are knowledgeable about the progressive movement, the NYC YP4 office wants to hear from you! We're looking for an intern for the spring 2009 semester!

I have been fooling around with web design since high school and after running several websites, successfully crashing and burning less as time went on, I've been advising several nonprofit organizations on an incredibly important aspect of web design that is often missed in

I'm finally back from Netroots Nation, which despite being a conference for bloggers is so packed that it's almost impossible to find time to write.

I had an amazing time. Highlights: going all fan boy when I met netroots success story Donna Edwards (who later showed up at one of the many parties over the event and stood on the bar to make some remarks), met some very nice folks from the Jeanne Shaheen campaign and other organizations, and was ecstactic over a very special surprise guest.

Also, some guy with funny ears sent in a message.

Jason Rosenbaum, who blogs for the Sentinel and has been on several excellent online strategy panels this weekend, just posted slides from two panels about blog management.

Many of the tips (particularly with regard to repostability) are ones that we've been considering for the YP4 Blog. I hope that the slides will be useful to those of who you run your own blogs.

What looks valuable to you? What do you think is goofy? 

Eye-catching image? Check. Snappy headline? Check. You've spent hours tweaking your metaphors, checking your links and verifying your facts. Doesn't mean much if your reader glances at your entry and immediately leaves, does it?

How should you write your pages or blog entries? In the wild and wooly land of Web writing, here are some best practices.

Well, it's been quite a ride the past few weeks. But now, the summit is over, and the dust has settled. So, I'd like to talk a little bit about what happened to youngpeoplefor.org. For those who don't know me, I'm the IT Project Manager for YP4. I write and test the code behind the software that powers the YP4 blog and the rest of our new MyYP4 system. If you were with us on the web prior to this month, you have hopefully have noticed a few changes on our site between then and now.

As a fourth element of my language debate is the ideas of anonymity and apathy. The ideas of anonymity and apathy being so easy and simple to carry out is evidenced in our society everyday. Many people would rather build-up their online profiles on social networking sites, than get to meet people face-to-face and interact without a digital middleman. Apathy runs rampant in our society as more people vote for an American Idol winner than for the American President. A friend told me the other day, "I should be one of those people who are not allowed to vote, I don't know anything." These ideas are a plague on the future of our society. These two words represent double trouble for our world.

    I just returned (ok, it was Thursday and I finally posted this on the blog now) from Demos, where they held an excellent discussion of social networking and social change. I would have blogged live but I much prefer to check my spelling and grammar on Microsoft Word and balancing a laptop actually on my lap, is well, awkward. So instead, I am semi-live blogging; coming to you slightly after the fact - but with hopefully limited grammatical errors and chock full o' analysis. Call it a compromise. Besides, I didn't have the network key to log on to the Demos network.

    So grab yourself a latté and cancel all prior appointments, because we have a lot to discuss. Read on, after the break.