This is the companion blog to “The Rough Guide to Blogging,” available now (Fall 2006).
Now, this is pretty self explanatory. Just click to 16 Must Read Articles for Bloggers from “The Wrong Advices” and read on!
The article names themselves are super enticing: Declaring War on Blogger Apathy; Do You Have What It Takes to be a Professional Blogger?; 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity…
The book is doing well, really well. In fact, I had to go to three different Borders/Barnes&Nobles just to get a copy of it. It was even sold out among my friends — well, the four around that might have a copy on their shelf. I ended up having to order two copies of my own book to Barnes & Noble in order to have a reference copy for work. That may sound like a bad thing; but obviously, it’s not.
Feel free to order a few copies online or offline; it’s a tremendous work of achievement. Two thumbs up! It’s the prettiest/easiest/and most entertaining blog book out there. The Bay/Bruckheimer of blogging books. Plus, it’s informative.
Everyone always compliments me on the design. I just wink at them and say “And yeah, that’s not me on the cover.”
Thanks for buying. Now keep a copy on your shelf when I visit you so I don’t have to sit around special ordering my own damn book just to get copy.
Here we go, off to the library for a “Blogging 101 Workshop!” We had a fabulous experience last time I did this so won’t you come join me?
Blogging 101
Thursday, April 5, 2007 — 7 pm
Saratoga Library (a Santa Clara County Library)
13650 Saratoga Avenue
Saratoga, CA 95070
408.867.6126
(click here for additional info)
Well, this is kind of interesting. SonyBMG, home to artists such as Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Good Charlotte (who?) announced that they would require all unsigned band demos to be submitted via their the record label’s blog. No more sending your little taped demo to the studio and hoping to knock the socks off of an A&R person. Now it’s slap it on the blog, upload your photos and videos, and hope to hear a response. Or something like that.
Wait, this kind of sounds like MySpace — or what MySpace used to be — doesn’t it? Good luck aspiring musicians! You guys should have blogs anyway so posting your stuff to SonyBMG shouldn’t be too hard. And think of all the postage and handling you’ll save. Let’s hope other businesses will soon follow suit; incorporating digital formats and blogs into the old way of doing things.