Archive for April, 2006

Web 2.0 doesn’t go far enough

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

This is of course my humble opinion, but Web 2.0 needs to go a little further in conceptualization. From what I can see so far, Web 2.0 is undeveloped. There are companies like Digg running around, monetizing their traffic from AdSense, all with user-inputted ranking systems as their main selling ...

Heard from a reliable source: blogs are dead

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I was checking out the StaticSphere (my term for the unchanging non-blog universe) today and I happened upon a person who disagreed with my statement that the StaticSphere was dead and that blogging was the future of mankind. He said to me: Blogs are Dead. And you know what? I ...

Marketing blogs is easier than marketing static websites

Monday, April 17th, 2006

This I know for a fact. After 2 1/2 years of marketing static websites, my initial foray into blogging is proving what I already suspected to be fact: people are more receptive to blogs. In fact, people are more likely to link to and to religiously read a blog, two ...

Bloggers, what is your deepest fear?

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

If you've ever seen the movie "Coach Carter", you'll be familiar with the phrase: "What is your deepest fear?". Coach Carter asked this of his players until one player found the entire quotation from Marianne Williamson: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are ...

Velocity and consistency are two keys to blogging success

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Let's take a look at two factors that ensure your future or continued success with blogging for dollars. The first is velocity. Velocity refers to the rapidity of movement of a thing. In the case of blogging, velocity refers to the speed at which you're acquiring search engine rankings, link ...

How to tell people you blog for a living

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Having a new-age high tech job is great, except for one minor detail: most people don't have any idea what you're talking about. If you mention you make your money online, the average person immediatedly thinks "PORN", and it's not hard to understand why. People tend to reflect their own ...

Principles of making money from your blog

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Commercial blogging is on the rise. Weblogs Inc. inspired many a person to consider becoming a blogging professional when they were purchased by AOL for $25 million. That's a lot of clams, and all the other fish in the ocean quickly took notice. Within seconds of this deal, one could ...

Paid blog posting: the road forward?

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

I'm seeing a lot more references to something I'd rather ignore: cries for paid forum and blog posters. I have to admit, this strikes me as somewhat wrong. I cannot imagine a good forum being built from the scraps of paid posts, and although I can understand the point more ...

Timeliness: the main advantage of blogging

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I thought about blogs that don't update recently, and I realized what a bad position they're in. A blog, left unattended, will quickly become a weed garden. Blogs have a number of features, but the main advantage a blog has over a static website is timeliness. People search blogs for ...

Blogging snafu shows division in blog camps

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

A recent blowup concerning George Clooney appearing on Ariana Huffington's weblog has become a subject of debate concerning the nature of blogs. The crux of the debate centered on whether Clooney did or did not write the postings. He did not, and wasn't happy for the attribution, and neither were ...