Archive for the 'the blog' Category
I am in the upgrade process over here, changing the theme to make it easier to read and all.
If you get a second, could you poke around, click some links and let me know if you come across any errors or dead links?
Hope you all have a smashing weekend.
June 2nd, 2007 | Posted in the blog | No Comments
Liz, the original Successful Blogger herself, has issued a challenge in the form of a writing project: What metaphor do you use to describe your blog?
This has been on my mind a lot lately, especially after reading Dawud’s great article regarding what we call ourselves. It seems that everyone, from my Mother to my ex-girlfriend [...]
June 1st, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, small business, the blog | 17 Comments
A while back, I set up a Tumblelog. If you do not know, a Tumblelog is a quick and dirty blog, primarily excerpts, quotes, links and so on. I like to think of it as my brainstorming site, where I can post links, photos or random thoughts that have not yet fermented into a blog [...]
May 31st, 2007 | Posted in the blog | 3 Comments
It being Memorial Day, you should NOT be reading this, you should be out having fun with your family and friends.
See you tomorrow!
(If you insist on sticking around, check out the archives)
May 28th, 2007 | Posted in the blog | 3 Comments
Well, it pays to have a goal.
My goal was to break the Technorati 100,000 in two months.
I did it in 28 days.
As of this writing, I am ranked 88, 409, or put another way, there are only (!) 88,409 blogs more popular (according to Technorati) than mine. Thank you to everyone who thought anything I [...]
May 25th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, the blog | 9 Comments
First, a disclaimer. I am writing this as a functional guide to PodCasting with Wordpress. This is NOT the definitive, encyclopedic guide to podcasting. Rather, this is a how to for the non-technical among us. I have tried to enclose links to my sources if you wish to have more background, or as a springboard [...]
May 25th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, List of 5, the blog | 2 Comments
Back in early February of this year (2007), I decided to branch out from what was then my main blog and tackle a blog targeted to the small business market. It was a wonderful idea, but I was not really ready. In typical ready-fire-aim fashion, I jumped the gun and got some great early links, [...]
May 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, small business, the blog | 2 Comments
One of the great things about WordPress and the chief reason I use it as the foundation for all my blogs is the incredible amount of customization you can achieve using plugins. I was helping someone set up a blog for the first time this past weekend and I thought about all the plugins I [...]
May 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, resources, the blog | 7 Comments
By default, if you leave a comment on most modern blogs, the link to your website is “No-Followed” by Google. In other words, Google does not follow the link to your site, hurting you in all sort of nasty ways as far as the amount of love they will show you in page rank, search [...]
May 16th, 2007 | Posted in the blog | 3 Comments
As I mentioned the other day, I participated in a group writing project where we all had to write a “top 5″ list; mine was the top 5 google apps I use every day. Below I have included some link love to the top 50 blog posts that seem relevant to the [...]
May 14th, 2007 | Posted in small business, the blog | 4 Comments