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 [...]
Seems Like Twitter Separates The Old From The New
As a person who runs a technology blog which has been around a long time, I am in a very weird position. PCMech was started back in 1997. That’s a LONG damn time ago. Before the Internet was that big a deal. Back when everybody had their heart skip a beat at the sight of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Writing Blog Headlines
Attracting readers to your blog is very often all about the headline you use for your post. Yes, this has been said a million times by other writers, but I thought I would simply state what goes through my mind when I write a headline. These are 5 questions I often ask myself when authoring [...]
