08.31.06
Up, Up With People
Who doesn’t want to increase traffic to your blog, raise your hand? Thought so. SEOmoz — a Seattle based search engine optimization (SEO) company — gives us 21 excellent tips to increase your blog’s traffic.
08.26.06
You want thingamabobs?
A few little gadgets and gizmos for your pleasure:
Minimalist WordPress ThemesAlternatives to Google’s AdSense, with short reviews about each option.
WidgetBox, a collection of fun little widgets for your blogs. Your blog will never have to ask “When’s Santa coming?” again.
08.23.06
“Xtreme” blogging?
Blogging from space, Mount Everest, and the open seas may seem a bit far-fetched but where there’s a will (and some technical know-how) there’s a way. Follow along as bloggers conquer even the most out of reach places Earth — and beyond — has to offer.
08.22.06
Crisis! Only 2 out of 10 Americans visit blogs regularly.
A New York Times/CBS poll released today says that while blogs “are growing increasingly popular, relatively few Americans visit them regularly, if at all.”
“Asked how often they visited blogs, the responses from the 78% who said they used the Web, came out this way: frequently 10%, occasionally 9%, rarely 17%, never 40%, and 2% did not answer. That suggests that less than 2 in 10 Americans now visit blogs a lot or occasionally.”
You know what this means right? We have to keep spreading the word about blogging, even if it means literally wearing Blogger T-shirts every day, and taking people by the hand onto a keyboard and setting them up with some blogging software.
08.14.06
The New Blogger
Blogger is undergoing a change. The most popular blogging application had long been suffering from a lack of some basic features such as post categories and password protection. The “new” Blogger is still in beta but you can sign up to try it out here if you want an early preview. Some VIP Blogger members already have access to the beta version on their current accounts, who are these lucky folk?
08.12.06
Why do newspapers hate us bloggers?
Sunny Hundal, of the Guardian Unlimited, pens an article entitled “Why do newspapers hate us?”
08.11.06
Will the real Steve Jobs please stand up?
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, delivered a less than overwhelming keynote speech this week. Is the usually inspirational Steve Jobs losing his touch? Or is Jobs really just afraid to express himself away from his blog, “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs”?
“Some people think Apple’s Steve Jobs wouldn’t have a clue what a blog was unless he wanted to sue one, but that’s not true. He’s been secretly writing a blog famous for its unanticipated level of honesty, and although we were recently mourning its disappearance, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is back!”
-The Guardian Unlimited-