Blogging
Is Social Media Killing the Blogosphere?
I find it rather funny, but this question (or bold statement, I should say) gets repeated all the time on the Internet. In fact, I just came across a story from Wired which states that Twitter, Flickr and Facebook Make Blogs Look so 2004. Here we go again with the whole “blogging is dead” argument. [...]
How To Handle Complainers In Your Blog Audience
My philosophy is that, with any audience, you will have a small percentage who like to complain. As your blog audience grows, it may seem as if the amount of unhappy people has increased. Over on PCMech, I sure get them. A few examples come to mind: The person who actually bothers to email me [...]
Why Bloggers Should Start a Mailing List
Anybody in Internet business who is having any success at all will attest that a mailing list is VERY important. A well-maintained and ethically collected mailing list means you have a list of interested parties who signed themselves up to be contacted by you. That single act makes them a much better prospect for you [...]
The Dirty Little Secret of Pro Blogging
OK, this might not really be a “dirty” secret, but the point is to tackle head on a common misconception about making money with a blog. That misconception is that you can throw up a blog, do some writing for it, toss up some ads and see a payday. This misconception is why I so [...]
Can Blogging For Money Weather The Recession?
If you watch the news, you’d think the sky was falling. Big investment banks are filing for bankruptcy and, worse, the federal government is stepping in for takeover. This is not good news. Instability in the economy mixed with a knee-jerk reaction to bigger government and you have a very bad mix. This country has [...]
Starting a Blog In Order To Make Money – Lost Cause?
I am seeing a lot of people thinking of blogging for a living. Perhaps with the economy perceived to be not doing so good, people are scoping out possibilities. When I go to the local Tampa blogger meetup, there are usually at least a few looking to start up their blog in order to make [...]
Techmeme: Pursue It or Screw It?
OK, so there is probably not a single tech blogger out there that isn’t aware of Techmeme. And of those, a fair majority of them probably write with the expressed interest of getting featured on Techmeme. Should they? And in my case, I have a weird problem. This blog (Davidrisley.com) has made it onto Techmeme [...]
Does Making Money With Your Blog Make It Not a Blog Anymore?
At Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy started what turned into a fairly heated debate about “angst in the blogosphere”. I may have more to say about that premise later on, but one thing that was said by one of the members of the audience was essentially that if you’re making money with your blog, it isn’t a [...]
New and Improved Disqus Handles My Concerns
Back in May, I posted my opinion of Disqus and stated quite clearly that I thought it was a stupid move. The main reason for that was that your comments were now stored somewhere else and gave you no search engine love. Several bloggers told me I was being myopic (more or less), but then [...]
When Blogging Isn’t Blogging Anymore
I had an interesting conversation last night with some pretty well known bloggers. Both bloggers are professional bloggers who make money doing it, however both are network bloggers. This means they blog for somebody else and are paid by post to do so. What was very interesting to me was when they spoke of the [...]
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