February 19, 2008 – 6:58 pm
It was late and I needed to repeat the use of an image I uploaded a year ago to the Blog Herald. I know WordPress is working on a new image uploader and multimedia management interface, but it can’t come soon enough for me. Clicking through only a few groups of the hundreds of images [...]
January 14, 2008 – 4:23 am
Over the past year, National Public Radio’s blog and radio series called “My Cancer” has been an amazing portraly of life living, and dying, with cancer. Called NPR: My Cancer, it is frank and open, discussing the daily aspect of life with cancer.
A lot of times, I sit at my computer, trying to figure out [...]
January 11, 2008 – 4:51 am
Again, I am honored by my dear friend, Edrei Zahari of Footsteps in the Mirror, who continues to take on my blog challenge asking what you have learned this year. He wrote about what he learned in 2006 and continues the tradition with What Have You Learnt In 2007?.
I think it’s a brilliant idea to [...]
December 20, 2007 – 4:56 am
I travel. A lot. As I type this, I’ve just flown back from Israel, over 24 hours on planes disconnected from my computer and the Internet and my life after two weeks in one of my favorite places, where every day brought new meetings, interviews, explaining blogging, talking WordPress, meeting old friends, making new friends, [...]
December 12, 2007 – 5:21 am
It is my copyright policy to not permit literal translation of my content into another language without permission. And in general, I rarely give permission.
Whoa! Does this sound like it goes against Lorelle’s policy of open, transparent, fair, and equal communication and breaking down the language barriers? Nope. It is within my policies.
Translation is an [...]
November 28, 2007 – 4:09 am
Eaton Web offers “How to Become a More Passionate Blogger” and makes a very important point:
Passionate bloggers have advantages over non-passionate bloggers including attracting a higher quality and more supportive readership.
So, how do you become a more passionate blogger?
First of all, enjoy your niche. Blog about something you love. If you don’t like to travel, [...]
November 27, 2007 – 10:29 am
Ian of Letters from Home asked me about my article series on the Blog Herald about conspiracy theories and blogs, wondering why I was doing such a series:
…what’s the point of this series on conspiracy theories? Why encourage people to muddy the waters further? Is it all in the name of generating hits, traffic and [...]
November 27, 2007 – 12:04 am
One of my heroes, Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, whom I’ve written much about and love his work on the Blog Herald, has simplified the issue of content theft into two brilliant and understandable articles.
5 Content Theft Myths and Why They Are False deals with the myths that often keep us from responding and reporting [...]
November 20, 2007 – 4:24 am
It happens to everyone, including bloggers. You work and work, filled with enthusiasm, eager to embrace each day. Then something happens.
For a blogger, it’s little things. A mistake found in a post months after publishing. You are embarrassed but no big deal. Then someone says something a bit sarcastic towards you, and not your post, [...]
November 15, 2007 – 12:04 am
Last week, an article I wrote for the Blog Herald, Blogging Outside of Your Community By Not Blogging in Your Native Tongue, caught the attention of more than just the readers. It caught the attention of the staff of the Blog Herald by attracting a very unusual trackback from a new kind of copyright violating [...]
November 14, 2007 – 3:01 am
I love it when a blogger makes a point in clever ways, which meant I adored Ian Fernando’s How Rotating My Car Tires Taught Me About Blogging:
It is getting chilly here in New Jersey, and before the winter winds and snow fall comes I went ahead and rotated my tires. Spent 14 dollars just to [...]
November 10, 2007 – 4:14 am
Oh, the stories I could tell. I wish I could tell you about all the times when my instinct was to take the low road, to accuse, to play Devil’s advocate, to leap to conclusions, to express unfounded opinions, and to lower my standards. Oh, the times, the many times.
A constant struggle of mine is [...]
November 8, 2007 – 9:18 pm
A few weeks ago, I asked you to blog a biography. This week’s blog challenge is:
Blog your memoir.
A memoir is an auto-biography. It can be about your whole life, and your perspective of your life lived, or it can be just a story from your past, a moment about your life shared publicly.
Writing a memoir [...]
November 3, 2007 – 6:17 am
In Basic Blogging Etiquette, Do’s And Don’ts, Plagiarism, Deb shares some tips to help bloggers blog better:
I’ve discovered since I started blogging that it’s not possible to be a lone ranger. If you had started your blog as a private diary and you’re satisfied with three visitors a day: your mother, your boyfriend and your [...]
October 29, 2007 – 4:14 am
Discussing the challenges associated with blogging, a participant in a program I presented recently told me about how she tends to obsess over punctuation.
My friends tell me I need to read that book, Eat, Shoots, and Leaves about punctuation. I’m obsessed with commas and ellipses. I love using them. I like how they sound when [...]
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