Author Archive for David Krug

David Krug is a freelance blogger, who is a former part owner of The Blog Herald who has spent the last 10 years working in web development. Follow him on Twitter or FriendFeed

Chirrup, A Comment System For Twitter

June 22, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News | 1 Comment

Chirrup is comment system which uses Twitter as a datastore.
Huh?

People are following your twitter feed. People are reading your blog. People are discussing things they’ve read on Twitter. It seems only natural to marry them up.
It’s pretty common for people to post links to pages via Twitter, along with a short commentary or opinion. The [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Map Out Your Blog’s Long Term Growth Plan

June 22, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Consulting, Blog Networks, Features | Leave a Comment

Back when I was still managing a blog network I sat down with a piece of paper and mapped out my strategic growth plan. I failed miserably. Largely because I set my goals way to high. But looking at a more realistic approach. I’m going to show the readers here at The Blog Herald what [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Chyrp, an alternative blogging engine

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Consulting, Features | 3 Comments

I took Chyrp for a test drive recently. It’s a great little blogging engine for personal sites. It’s simple and runs on any out of the box LAMP server. Has some great themes and reminds me a lot of a stand alone Tumblr. Worth checking out for the tech savvy personal blogger or blog hobbyist [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Did John Battelle Cash Out?

April 30, 2008 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Valleywag is reporting that John Battelle walked away with as much as 22 million in the latest round of VC investment all the while his bloggers struggle to keep bread on the table. Ouch.

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Tweet frees man from Egyptian Prison

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Microblogging, News | Leave a Comment

Twitter may not have a business plan. But it is still really useful. Recently a graduate student from UC-Berkeley was arrested in Egypt along with his translator. Yet he managed to send tweets to his family and friends utilizing the social media service Twitter. Within hours his college had hired him a lawyer and helped [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Matt Mullenweg Interview

April 25, 2008 | Filed Under Bloggers, Features, Video, WordPress | 1 Comment

Kari Swisher had a chance to sit down with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic fame. It makes for some interesting speculation as to what they are up to next. I’d love to post the video but Brightcove sucks as of late. So your going to have to head over to AllthingsD to check it out. It’s [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

Start A Blog Consulting Business Today

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Consulting, Featured, Features | 1 Comment

There are a lot of Blog Consulting firms out there. I’ve worked with a few of them on sub contracting projects. I’ve started a blog consulting firm, and helped strategically plot another. There’s bound to be some new firms pop up after Six Apart picked up a MovableType consulting firm for what can only be [...]

© Copyright 2007 The Blog Herald | Article written by David Krug

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