I’ve heard a lot of people make jokes about trying to describe blogging to their mother, grandmother, father, and even to co-workers and bosses. Even a best friend’s eyes glaze over when that slogging, logging, grogging, flogging, whatchamacallit - oh, yes, B-L-O-G-Ging thing comes up in conversation.
This week, your blogging challenge is to describe blogging.
Think [...]
Who are you counting on to give you the news you need for your blog? To help you find stories to write about and things to comment on?
Who are your guides? Mentors? The blogs and sites stuffed into your feed reader that help you understand how this blogging thing works or how the industry [...]
Where do your favorite bloggers live? Do you know? Does it matter? Well, for this blog challenge it does.
This week’s blog challenge is to research your favorite bloggers, usually the ones you read through your feed reader or bookmark and return to repeatedly, to find out where they live and work.
The answer might be [...]
Kate Blogs asks us who would you like to see blogging from the past:
The blogging world contains everyone from politicians to tea-ladies, best selling authors to paper-boys. In a way, having access to such a wonderful new technology makes one feel a little sorry for people in the past. At one time, if someone had [...]
Recently, Liz Strauss of the Successful-Blog posted “I Want to Make a Difference, Too”, a guest post from Jesse Petersen of Gitr’s WoW Blog. In it, he debates within himself and asks others how he can make a difference in the world around him.
I want to make a difference.
That sentence is a paragraph in and [...]
Business Logs offers “The Web’s Best Interface Design” websites, and I thought I’d challenge you to:
List Your Top Ten Best Interface Designed Blogs
As part of my ongoing blogging challenges, I want you to blog about your ten favorite designed blogs from a different perspective: user friendly navigation.
Pretty is important, but what is most important in [...]
February 28, 2007 – 8:35 am
Recently, a friend was describing her life after her divorce and the recovery process afterwards. “I think I can finally release Leslie 2.0.”
I laughed so hard. I decided to use this example as a blog challenge. Your next blogging challenge is to blog about what in your life is now version 2.0.
Is there something in [...]
February 21, 2007 – 8:20 am
In a recent Blog Challenge on testing your blog’s development, mandarine answered:
I have learned one thing: when I google “The happiest person in the world”, I come out #1! That’s pretty cool, huh? (And I am still #2 without the quotes).
Your blog challenge this week is to research what word or phrase makes your [...]
February 13, 2007 – 4:05 am
Here is a blogging challenge for those who want to learn more about monitoring and studying your blog traffic, and developing your blog.
Visit the following links and study the information they give you on your blog. Then blog about what you learn from these various sites and if they helped, hurt, or change the way [...]
February 6, 2007 – 4:01 am
Science Daily wrote about an air guitar t-shirt for fans of the electric guitar who can’t afford to buy or play a real one, but who can afford to buy the t-shirt.
Your blogging challenge this week is to blog about something bizarre, strange, weird, off-beat, eclectic, unusual, rare, stoopid, or just seriously odd.
Dig [...]
January 23, 2007 – 4:59 am
We’re barely a month into what is considered the “New Year” for many countries and cultures around the world, a time for reflection and preparation.
This week’s blogging challenge is not to make a list of things to change or habits to break. I want a list of your blog goals.
Blog a top ten list of [...]
January 16, 2007 – 4:50 am
I recently posted a blogging challenge on changing the world in 30 seconds and it got me thinking about how blogs have had such an amazing impact on the world today.
While many think about blogs as offering examples of freedom of speech, allowing those who have long not been heard to shout their message to [...]
January 11, 2007 – 5:45 pm
I was in a Goodwill this morning, hunting up some warm clothes in order to survive in our new colder climate, and stumbled upon a 1969 Life Magazine issue featuring our first closeup photographs of the moon from the lunar space module, along with pictures of the “earthrise” in color, photographs that will be eternally [...]
January 1, 2007 – 3:37 am
Last year, I asked my readers to blog about “100 Things You Learned This Year You Didn’t Know Last Year”, and I’ll ask again.
Your blogging challenge this week is to blog about 50 things you learned this year that you didn’t know last year.
Hey, that’s less than one a week. You must have learned [...]
December 18, 2006 – 3:34 am
“Diamonds dipped in caramel.” That’s the lovely description of singer Ella Fitzgerald as described in a recent NPR’s All Things Considered program called “Vocal Impressions: Hearing Voices”.
Several years ago, I had that last, long, wonderful father-and-daughter time as we went to look at colleges in the Northeast and decide which one had the most [...]