Blogging
Tech Blogging - Too Crowded? Too Hateful? No, Just Changing.
Those of us who are into tech blogging probably realize by now that this is a VERY saturated field. There are a LOT of tech bloggers out there and it is hard, if not impossible, to find a unique angle to a story.
Recently, Jason Calacanis made a very public departure from blogging. Instead of posting [...]
Posterous Is Blogging For Everybody Else
Running a real blog is a lot of work. Posts take time. Of course, anybody can start a blog and that is the beauty of the platform. Wordpress is the absolute easiest web application to install - EVER - and you can even use one of the many free hosted options if you won’t want [...]
Iran to Kill Bloggers?
When you see stories like this one, it makes you step aside and really think. As you know, yesterday was July 4th - Independence Day - here in the United States. I am actually able to make a living by blogging. We don’t have any governmental agency trying to regulate us (yet). But, over in [...]
How Do You Explain Blogging To Your Family?
Being that I blog for a living, I sometimes find myself in a quandary on how to explain what I do to people who ask. To most people, when I say “I am a professional blogger”, I get a blank stare.
Just ask my wife. As far as she is concerned, I sit in my office [...]
Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead
I think Robert Scoble suffers from the disease of early adopter-itis. What does that mean? Well, like many tech bloggers (including myself), Scoble is an early adopter. This means he tries new things way ahead of most of the people on the Internet. When you’re way out ahead, the problem is that you forget that [...]
Writing Headlines For Social Media or Search Engines?
The other evening, I attended a search engine optimization meeting here in the Tampa area. It was organized by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Since he does SEO for a living, I asked him his thoughts on how social media was changing the field of SEO. One of the questions that I raised was [...]
Tip For Better Blog Writing
Sometimes I find that I get my best work done at a coffee shop. In my case, I hit Panera Bread for the free coffee refills and the free wifi.
Sure, I’ve got a nice home office. I’ve got the big Mac Pro in the office with three nice monitors attached. I’ve got the super fast [...]
Compare Your Feedburner Subscriber Numbers
We all know that Alexa allows you to graphically view your Alexa rank, traffic reach and page views and compare with up to 4 other sites. Alexa isn’t super accurate, but it is good for observing trends and for comparisons.
This morning, I ran across Feed Compare. This is a cool little website which allows you [...]
Associated Press Versus Bloggers
In another case of new media versus the old, the Associated Press has decided to try to impose some guidelines on bloggers by defining what constitutes “fair use” of an AP news story. Fair use is a legal principle which states that it is OK to quote snippets from another copyrighted work without permission of [...]
Bloggers + Apple = Techmeme Echo Chamber
OK, we all know that bloggers are fascinated by Apple. We love to follow what Apple does. I personally really dig Apple hardware and I am generally more excited about what Apple does than what another computer company does. Good. Groovy.
But, let us look at Techmeme right now:
That entire red area is all echo chamber [...]
