Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
I often look at my logfiles and see a really unique and interesting keyword phrase that someone used to find my website. Today was no exception with this doozy:
Reality is Bullshit
Ha. I wonder what the meaning of the search was? I can only imagine. I can ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
If your Google Adsense earnings have tanked on a website where the traffic hasn't really gone down, consider this: there are too many ad units, and not enough demand. This is not a good situation for most publishers, because nobody is competing for ads on you website. This ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
A) When under pressure, the great ones scramble. Blogging is a lot like football. Okay, it's not really like football in the slightest. But like the game of football, bloggers will find themselves under pressure and looking for a way to come up with new strategies. ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Google has been losing out lately when it comes to partnering deals with old media companies and their new media YouTube division. In fact, it's starting to look like the predicted user-generated Utopia is in doubt at this point. Personally, I'm pretty sure that the model that was ...
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Sometimes you sit down at your WordPress, and you find that words have eluded you. You can't manage to type up a post, despite trying to psyche yourself up. At times like this it feels like every possible blog post has already been made, not only by you, ...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Many bloggers are held out as examples of blogging excellence, and some of them do a great job. But you have to hand it to Perez Hilton, who has put himself into a class by himself. For a one-man operation he's been able to garner a huge portion ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
It doesn't take long to run into a "blog evangelist" online. People who love blogging tend to become enthused and tell others about the great activity they've discovered. And blogging can be great, but a lot of people have unrealistic expectations about what blog content can actually do ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
2007 is well underway. How is this year different than other ones? What is the hype in the blogosphere and what are we supposed to make out of all of it? So far this year looks like a continuation of last year.
The Hype Factor is ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
The "blog network" business model is like everything else these days: tougher than ever to implement. Many people have entered the fray, and that has a few consequences: more competition and fewer eyeballs per blog. With the way Google seems to be shifting to alliances with bigger publishers, ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Most people don't have to write any content. They last used their writing skills in high school, and they aren't too concerned about whether they've eroded or not. But bloggers have to use their writing skills continously. When you start blogging, you realize just how tough it ...
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