Lately I haven't watched a lot of television, for a couple of years actually now I think about it. But, thanks to my handy satellite dish and DVR (Sky+ for the locals) I do keep up with some of the latest geek viewing. This is lucky because Ben over at Blogging Experiment has got a ...
Category Archives: Blogging
Benefiting from Blog Scrapers
A popular gripe of bloggers is the scraper scum. You know, the people who copy your content then slap ads around it or use it as search engine fodder so they can pimp their spam. It might be apparent that these gits annoy me too. Today I am installing a solution which I hope will go ...
Blogging for Readers
Is your blog Reader-Centric? Yuk, I know, horrible buzz word, but stay with me! What I am asking is important to your blog success; how well do you cater for your reader when working on your blog? In the programming world people talk about "user centric" where the users needs are elevated and in customer service people ...
Charisma versus Innovation
You can be charismatic or be innovative, if you had to choose, which would you prefer? I asked on Twitter and got overwhelmingly "Innovative!" as a response. This is pretty much what I hoped and expected to hear. While most people would say they value innovation more highly than charisma, I look around and I am ...
Can You Blog Too Much?
Interesting thought here from David PeraltyI think that writing on numerous blogs can be detrimental, but as Chris Garrett has proven, it can also be very helpful, as everywhere I turn around his name pops up Do you think I'm getting over-exposed? As David says, part of my personal branding has been from writing so much ...
Why Blogging is Like Alcohol
Have you seen Jon's "Drunk on Your Own Words" post at Copyblogger? It's a good piece, go read it if you haven't already. After reading it I realized blogging has some things in common with drinking the booze: Inhibitions - For some of us blogging can strip away inhibitions. This could be in the way ...
Freelance Blogging: How Much Should You Charge?
Over at the Authority Blogger Forum my friend and super forum moderator, Jen has started a great thread about freelance blogging rates. What would you charge for freelance blogging? As she says, while there is a lot of information out there about freelance blogging, the one thing people rarely talk about is ...
Blog Critique: Teevieo
Would you believe I have a blogger doppelgänger out there? Yes, it's true, and cruelly he is both younger and better looking. Not only that, he is a skilled designer. Luckily for me I can redress the balance somewhat by ...
How to Get Banned from Twitter
One of the Twitter personalities I have been following is Sam Freedom who found one day his account had been suspended. It turns out from support there are several reasons this happens, mainly: you've followed a large number of people in a short amount of time there is a small number of followers ...
Are they Milestones, Scores or Hurdles?
I think bloggers might be the most self-critical people I have ever met. In some cases monitoring our own progress can be a great thing, I expect we have all worked with people who we wish would have cared more about their own performance! But when we routinely beat ourselves up, something has to change. Look ...
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