Category: General

Jason Kottke asked folks to chip in and fund his blogging for a year – he raised nearly $40k. He’s ended the experiment and reports out: I haven’t grown traffic enough or developed a sufficient cult of personality to make the subscription model a sustainable one for kottke.org…those things just aren’t interesting to me…My (unstated) […]

The audio from tonight’s call with Rich Brooks is available here or via podcast through iTunes, Podnova, Odeo. The transcript from our previous call with Rick Bruner is available in PDF or HTML format.

I am so guilty of this. I don’t use the active voice when I blog. I don’t even know if I can recognize it. Lori at Blogcritics has a tutorial: Use the active voice. Instead of saying, “The running back was tackled by the linebacker,” say, “The linebacker tackled the running back.” The passive voice […]

The Financial Times has a giddy little epitaph for blogging: We must ask whether we are being sold a naked emperor. Is blogging really an information revolution? Is it about to drive the mainstream news media into oblivion? Or is it just another crock of virtual gold – a meretricious equivalent of all those noisy […]

(transcript on the way) Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Podnova, or Odeo. Or join the newsletter. As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging brainiacs out there. Our fourth call was with Rich Brooks from […]

Tonight @ 7:30 EST Dial 1-712-432-2323 Access Code 60657. Reminder for my call tonight with web marketing expert Rich Brooks from flyte new media.

Robert Scoble’s written a post with some tips on post composition: 1) Get your pic added to your Technorati blog claim 2) Write posts that can be tagged with the most popular tags being used right now 3) Shake up your templates to look different. 4) Use graphics. 5) Get some personality. Sometimer I think […]

New York has an ‘expose’ of bloggers earning money. There is enormous inequity in the system. A very small number of blogs enjoy hundreds and hundreds of inbound links—the A-list, as it were. But almost all others have very few sites pointing to them. When Shirky sorted the 433 blogs from most linked to least […]

Guy Kawasaki has a fun essay on how to suck up to a blogger: Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began.The latest […]

Chris at Performancing has a great top ten list on how to get more comments to your blog. My favorite is #6: Resist the urge to make your posts too complete if you want to receive community input. That’s one of the great things about top ten lists, you have to stop at 10! Don’t […]