Example of a Perfect Personal Blog

I’m working on a series of articles about personal blogging, but I wanted to share with you a perfect example of a personal blog. It’s by my cousin, Duke DesRochers. You may remember Duke from the story I did on him called, “Future Social Media Renaissance Man,” on Lorelle on WordPress or the one on […]

Blogs Offer Communication, Information, and Connections During Disasters

Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today just called me from Northern Louisiana to report that he and his family have survived the evacuation from their home in Shreveport, Louisiana, though Hurricane Gustav appears to have done more damage where they evacuated to rather than where they left from. Jonathan and I were both victims of Hurricane […]

Blog Challenge: Describe Your Computer Setup – Then and Now

This week’s blog challenge is to blog about your computer setup as it was “then” in the early days of your computer life, and how it is now, in your modern technology life. What computer tools are you dependent upon for your blog that surround you on your desk? Do you podcast? What do you […]

5 Tips about Surviving on the Road with Lorelle

Hi! It’s Liz Strauss. I’m hijacking Lorelle’s blog while she’s off in Pasadena being brilliant again. Lorelle and I were together at WordCamp Dallas. While we were there, I learned and confirmed a few things that I’d like to share. I got home from WordCamp Dallas 2008 on Tuesday afternoon, and I’m still recovering. The […]

WordCamp Hamburg, Germany

I asked my friend, Ian of Letters Home To You living in Hamburg, Germany, to report on this past weekend’s WordCamp Hamburg. Unfortunately, he could only report on the first day of the two day event. Call it a mash-up of users, developers, code freaks and the rest of us, people like me who could […]

Weekly Digest: WordPress Tips Month, Grateful to Guest Bloggers, WordPress 2.3

We are down to the last week of the two months of guest blogging fun celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog. This month is dedicated to WordPress tips and has been stuffed with a ton of tips, techniques, resources, and news about WordPress by myself and my fabulous guest bloggers. I’d […]

Podcasting Equipment

By Daniel Brusilovsky My last posts were guest posts here were about podcasting in What is Podcasting, Issues of Podcasting, and Starting your Podcast. This time I will be talking in-depth about the equipment need to podcast. To start, you need something to record the audio. If you own a Mac, GarageBand is included, and […]

Ways to Build and Retain Your Podcast Audience

By Douglas Bell My friend Daniel Brusilovsky has posted a couple of articles here at Lorelle on WordPress about some of the technical details of creating a podcast, such as What is Podcasting? and Starting Your Podcast, and Lorelle has asked me to post an article or two to go a little more “in depth” […]

Issues of Podcasting

By Daniel Brusilovsky of Apple Universe In my last post about podcasting, I went over the basics. But what people don’t know are the challenges! When I podcast, I face many challenges in the microphone, audio, mixer problems and even problems with the recording software! That is why it is very important to check all […]

What is Podcasting?

By Daniel Brusilovsky Podcasting is EVERYWHERE on the internet. Start by going to iTunes. Seeing podcasting in action will do a MUCH better job getting the idea across than our words can. Our 3-page technical introduction may also be helpful. Read Podcast FAQs. Then check out these sites or podcasts about podcasting. Go to Podcast […]

Lorelle Live at WordCamp 2007

By John Pozadzides Many people who were unable to physically attend the recent WordCamp conference in San Francisco have been anxiously awaiting the videos from the event. Among the most requested videos is the one of Lorelle’s presentation. So, here is the one hour long lecture given by Lorelle two weeks ago on the topic […]

SOBCon 2007 Remembered and Recommended

I can barely keep up with all the amazing things said about the SOBCon07, the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference this past weekend. I’m still processing this amazing event. I stayed in Chicago longer to meet with local bloggers and do some business, so I have just arrived back and will be sharing the lessons […]

Plosives: Popping Podcasting Punches

Are you podcasting? Are you being a little rough on your Ps and Ts? Blog Relations has tips and techniques to help you deal with the explosive sounds your words may smack the microphone with. Plosives are the bane of podcasters. They are the breathy sounds that sneak into the microphone, however hard you try […]

Echo Chamber: 10 Tips on Blogging Original Thoughts Originally

Chris Pirillo’s written a wonderful article called “10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber”, which is a great lesson in how an article title can attract attention, but the content not match the intent of the title, as I will be talking about tomorrow. The only reason I clicked the link was because I was […]

Podcasting At It’s Best with The Blog Herald

Interested in serious podcasting on your blog? The Blog Herald lets us behind the scenes to see their podcasting setup. The microphone is a Kel HM-1, which is a cardioid condenser microphone. It’s mounted in a Kel shockmount to reduce noise from vibrations and other external influences. In front of the microphone is a standard […]