Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Monday, April 6th, 2009
When you first star blogging you may be very tempted to post almost constantly. A few years ago this would have been enough to generate traffic, but these days it only begins to scratch the surface of what needs to be done in order to succeed. The level ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The easiest way to stay motivated by blogging is when you do it for yourself. Forget your "audience." Forget any potential income you might receive for the effort. instead focus on enjoying what you're posting about and decent results are bound to follow.
When you look at the ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
I happened to catch an article by Dan Lyons who was upset that he didn't get rich by being a fake Steve Jobs blogger. Frankly, I'm surprised that he's surprised. Apparently he fell for the hype surrounding blogging hook, line, and sinker and thought all it took was ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
The New York Times has been sued over linking to news articles from The Boston Globe's website. The practice of linking to news article is quite common on the web, especially among bloggers.
Boston.com said Tuesday that The New York Times Co. violated copyrights on the stories by pasting verbatim ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Twitter is becoming a more valuable traffic stream everyday. I'm starting to see the potential in Twitter that many others already have. To me, Twitter is an improvement over RSS, and a gateway to the future of communications for blogs.
Twitter has an easy-to-use API, which helps automate many ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
The new Wordpress 2.7 has a redesigned control panel that is actually quite nice to use. It builds on the design we're already used to, but adds a bit more pizazz to it.
This version of Wordpress seems to run a bit faster than previous ones. That also could ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Kontera has proven themselves to be a complete shit operation in my eyes. First off, they serve obviously untargeted ads that couldn't bring revenue to anyone. Secondly, their ads are ugly and slow-loading, which hurts the overall appearance of your website. Third, and worst of all, the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Everyday five million new people start blogs. Okay, the number's not that high, but you get the idea. A lot of damn people decide to become bloggers every day. I think it's great. I know I jumped right into blogging without a second thought and I've ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
It's getting obvious to just about anyone that old-line newspapers are in their death throes. The A.P., an organization that's owned by 150 newspapers, has decided to fight back against the erosion of their business model by new media, in a good old fashioned ham-fisted way which indicates their ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Making money blogging is the easiest damn thing in the world. I can't believe I hear people cry about how tough it is. There's so much information out there on how to get started and what to do, that you must not be paying attention. Or, it ...
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