Archive for April, 2006

Kevin Sites: the merging of blogging and journalism

Friday, April 28th, 2006

For sheer courage, it's hard to argue with Kevin Sites's plan to become a top notch journalist and blogger. You become a "conflict journalist", touring the world's hottest hotspots, and you chronicle it all in the HotZone. This brand of gonzo blogging journalism has done quite well for ...

Quick note on WordPress SEO using the WP-Email plugin

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

If you're using the WP-Email plugin for WordPress, be aware that a lot of extra pages will be indexed in Google as duplicate content unless you exclude crawling via robots.txt. The program creates a Javascript link to a PopUp Window which will be crawled as a seperate file (but ...

5 reasons most blogs will fail

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I've heard estimates of over 95% of all blogs failing after startup. This means very few blogs will stand any sort of test of time. By learning why others fail, we can hope to avoid the same fate ourselves. Here's 5 reasons blogs fail. 1) It's ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but originality wins the day

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

People copy you because they admire you. The more work you do online, the more likely you are to see someone copy you word for word, without attribution. In fact, "scraping" is so common, it's almost completely unlikely that a website of any merit would be left alone. ...

Another good reason to blog: your career could use the boost

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Turns out almost anyone can benefit from blogs, according to an article in the Boston Globe. More and more people are finding out that a blog can be very helpful, especially in a public relations manner: 'It's the new public relations and it's the new home page. Instead of a ...

Winning bloggers smoke the competition through sheer tenacity

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Think about this: you recently hear some exciting news that is really great! A new blog has been started on the internet! ...Let me try that again: "A NEW BLOG has just been started on the Internet!!!!". Are you excited yet? Is your heart a-flutter with anticipation? ...

Using YouTube to promote your blog

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

It looks like is one of those transformative technologies that is actually changing how people live. Prior to YouTube, who Launched in February of 2005, there was no easy way to share videos on the internet. YouTube changed all that by developing technology that allows you to easily ...

The Visual Rich Editor in WordPress 2.0 really sucks

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I pretty much love all of the other features in WordPress, but the Visual Rich WYSIWYG Editor was just killing me. I understand some people don't like typing in HREFs and the like, but I don't mind, and this think is screwing up on some easy concepts. Secondly, ...

Social bookmarking and marketing your blog

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Right now, tagging and social bookmarking are in vogue. Some people consider social bookmarking to be an improvement over other current more popular information organizing systems. How it all pans out remains to be seen. What we do know is that social bookmarking is having a huge impact on how ...

Feedburner offers a ton of impressive RSS Feed features

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

If you're in the market for managing your RSS Feeds, then is worth a try. The free service has a ton of impressive features, that are very easy to use. In fact, Feedburner makes it easy to change the look and feel of your feed as well as helping you ...