Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

On our Podcasting Bootcamp call last week Tim (my guest star for that week) and I were talking about the trends that podcasting and blogging embody. I talked about my  background in the hteatre and performing arts and how essentially podcasting is the exact opposite of theatre. In theatre everyone shows up at the agreed […]

(written yesterday – wouldn’t post from cafe for some reason:) And it is Tuesday. I haven’t done a journal-ish entry in this blog so here goes. Sitting here at the Argo Tea Cafe on Broadway – they have free wi-fi. Not many people here right now but it is only 9:47. In the afternoon the […]

Home for the holidays means trip to the Wal-Mart Superstore. Sometimes it’s so quiet in Clarksville, Indiana you can hear the money being sucked out of the community. The bottle says CRANBERRY and 100% JUICE. But it isn’t 100% cranberry juice. It is cranberry juice mixed with apple juice. So yes – it is 100% […]

Tony Blair’s outgoing chief strategist on blogs: What is the big breakthrough, in terms of politics, on the web in the last few years? It’s basically blogs which are, generally speaking, hostile and, generally speaking, basically see their job as every day exposing how venal, stupid, mendacious politicians are. Because the major corporate-owned media isn’t […]

I think I’m in love. I rolled out Denis’s Semiologic system (an incredibly souped-up set of WordPress templates – well, really an overhaul of the whole WordPress system). Anyway – I’ve been moving all my blogs into the Seimologic format and I was trying to figure out how to do something (not have my sidebar […]

I’m going my blog into the Semiologic format so this blog may have hiccups over the next few hours.

Jim Skyped me about his recent post about the Pay-per-post model that is starting to be ratcheted up by companies like Pay Per Post, Loudcloud and Creamaid: Is pay-per-post [without disclosure] a “black hat” business model? Some would say that it is but they are among the purists in the blogosphere. The blogger capitalists that […]

Venus, Mars, yadda, diploma mill: Dr. John Gray of 1950s gender roles Mars and Venus and Barbara De Angelis of relationship bookshelf fame have doctorates from the Columbia Pacific University (you know they used to be married right?). This diploma mill university was forced to cease operation in California. In 1996, after conducting a qualitative […]

(via Debbie-tastic) Swatch: Compelling Content Comes from Unique Experiences Industry Content Provides Great Relevancy for Audiences Sometimes The Most Random Content Generates The Most Interest Put Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Marketing at the Center of Your Blogging Content Strategy

Many oldies and goodies and some newies: 8. Leave highly valuable comments on other blogs in your niche. Every niche within the blogosphere is made up of a few tightly knit communities. Like all communities, so much of what is actually going on (passing links, giving tips, etc.) is all done behind the scenes through […]