Query_Posts and Your Homepage Design: Part 2

June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | Leave a Comment

Last week, I went through the process of adding the content of a single WordPress “page” to your homepage. But there would be no reason to do that with WordPress’s new ability to make any “page” your homepage … unless … you wanted both the content from a single “page”, as well as the […]

Blog Post Category Trauma: How To Help Bloggers With Useless Categories

June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging | 32 Comments

Oh, my. It seems people are still having trouble with their categories. Here’s an example I found the other day:

I’ve Been Thinking
Some Blog Stuff
More Blog Stuff
My Thoughts
About My Car
Dreams and Wishes
Useless Information
Left Over Junk

Raise your hands. Who thinks these are effective post categories? Hmmm?
Instead of me telling you why these don’t work, you tell me. […]

10 Minute Blog Tips: Resistance is Futile

June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | 10 Comments

One of the questions I am often asked is “What is your top tip for new bloggers?”.
I’m one of those people who finds it hard to choose one favourite anything. I do however have a favourite blogging tip …

Brand You Revisited

June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Features, Marketing | 13 Comments

It’s been almost ten years since Tom Peters first talked about it –- imagine you’re the CEO of your own company: Me, Inc. What makes you different? What are you better at than anyone else? What do your style and voice look like?
“To be in business today, our most important job is to […]

Blogging taking off in Africa as technology improves

June 28, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, News, World Blogging | 4 Comments

PopMatters reports that blogging is catching on in a number of African countries, thanks to fast-expanding Internet access on the continent.
In Nigeria, bloggers documented chaotic scenes at polling places in April’s presidential elections, which international observers said were marred by widespread fraud.
In Ethiopia, they outpaced the international media with detailed, often dramatic coverage of the […]

Google’s Blogger Goes Vodcasting (Plus: Polls Now Included)

June 28, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software, Google, News, Technology | 1 Comment

It looks as if the boys and girls at Blogger have done it again!
After previously enabling users to upload video’s to their weblogs, Google is now enabling every blog*spot user to vodcast their sites via iTunes or which ever podcasting service they prefer.

Political Bloggers and Candidates Have a Legal Right to Lie

June 28, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, Ethics, Politics | 5 Comments

If you haven’t noticed the political season is on in the United States, you will soon. The Blogosphere will soon be overrun with political blogs and blogs promoting US presidential and other candidates.
For me, this is a time when freedom of speech and objectivity in journalism clashes with the blogging spirit. It’s a mess […]

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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

MyBlogLog Adds More Stuff
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we’re not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks.
Specifically, whenever you:

post a question to Yahoo Answers
share an item on Google Reader
post a video on Seesmic

MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page.
All you […]

SOBCon08: A Conference Experienced in the Moments
May 8, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago last weekend was a collection of moments I will remember for a long time.
Throughout the weekend, people kept asking what was different about this conference from all the other conferences they go to. It was clear […]

Blogger To Add Star Rating System To BlogSpot?
May 8, 2008 | By Darnell Clayton | Leave a Comment

It looks as Blog*spot users will soon be able to insert a ratings system in their Blogger blogs which will allow readers to rate an individual post from one star to five.
Unfortunately it seems as if they launched the feature prematurely, and the Google team has currently disabled the feature–at least for now.
(Blogger Status) Some […]

Perez Hilton to Release Clothing Line
May 8, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, is set to launch his own line of clothing, to be sold exclusively in the Hot Topic chain of stores, as well as online.
“2008 is all about expanding the Perez Brand,” the blogger explained. “I talk about clothes all the time on my website. I have a […]

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