Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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 […]

From the put up or shut up department: I got tired of Pingomatic.com being down – not the pinging part of the site but the part that I can query to grab ‘last updated’ info for my blogrolls. I knew that Blogrolling.com did this and wondered if there was a way to get the two […]

In the continuing effort to have the absolute stupidest names for new technology (I don’t you blame Steve – the author – at all), Wired has a piece on podfading aka people getting bored talking to themselves in their living rooms. This is something I’ve emphasized in my Podcasting Bootcamp course, that podcasting can take […]

Qumana 3.0 (beta), a desktop-based blog editor, is available for download. I’ve been toying with the verison earlier and I love being able to drag content right into a post.