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 [...]
October 24, 2007 – 4:05 am
In Technical Tips for Publishing a Series of Articles on Your Blog, I offered tips for how to use WordPress to publish a series of articles on your blog, linking manually between the blog posts after they have been published.
One of the benefits of writing articles series as future posts is that you can link [...]
October 23, 2007 – 4:49 am
Last week, I covered the definition and benefits of having a focus on your blog, and then gave you some tips on discovering your blog’s focus by examining and studying the clues your blog currently contains. Today, I want to cover how to change your blog’s focus now that you’ve found it, as part of [...]
October 22, 2007 – 4:30 am
Last week, I covered the meaning of blog focus and the benefits and reasons to narrow your blog’s focus by your writing style or content. As part of this ongoing series on Blog Struggles, today I want to cover how to find your blog focus, and tomorrow, how to change your blog’s focus.
Finding your blog [...]
October 20, 2007 – 4:40 am
In an interesting “debate” or rather “continuation of the conversation”, two bloggers take on the concept of the 7 Blogging Beginner Mistakes and how to avoid them.
It began with Puiu from the Lost Art of Blogging on 7 Blogging Beginner Mistakes And How to Avoid Them, which made some very good points, much of [...]
October 17, 2007 – 4:27 am
Why should your blog be a focused, narrow niched blog?
Because:
It establishes you as an expert.
It creates a consistent flow of information and content.
The blog and you become a source for information, not just a link.
Increased incoming referrer links and increased likelihood of being blogged about, not just linked to.
Like attracts like.
While it is wonderful [...]
October 16, 2007 – 4:12 am
In a comment recently on this article series on Blog Struggles, Lindsey asked:
I have been blogging for a couple of years. I started blogging because I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I still find it fun. However, my blog doesn’t really have much of a focus, so it doesn’t have [...]
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