How Long Does It Take You to Write a Blog Post?

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Publishing | 9 Comments

I’m often asked how long it takes me to write a blog post or web article. My answer is: until it’s done.
Some blog posts take only a few minutes from idea to finished product. A few minutes to edit and clean it up, making sure I’ve got all the bits and pieces in the [...]

The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog Ebook

June 24, 2008 | Filed Under Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, News, Passion, Professional Bloggers, Professional Blogging, Publishing, Recommended, Reviews, Social Media | 3 Comments

Liz Strauss released her new ebook, The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works, this weekend to rave reviews.
Based upon the lessons she learned on her own blogs, Successful and Outstanding Bloggers and Liz Strauss, as a long time writer for the [...]

Garcia Media Launches Blog

June 17, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, Publishing | Leave a Comment

Chances are, you’ve been reading products designed or redesigned by Garcia Media more often than you’d believe. The firm, lead by dr. Mario R. Garcia, has worked with publications like The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, La Tribune, and more. Add print and mobile areas to that, not seldom connected to products within the big [...]

Twingly: “The future of media is conversation”

April 8, 2008 | Filed Under Features, General, Interviews, Publishing, Search, Spam | Leave a Comment

Last weekend at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam I spoke with Anton Johansson and CEO Martin Källström from the new blog search engine Twingly. They present themselves as a new spam-free blog search engine with a strong focus on the conversational nature of the blogosphere.
Lorelle VanFossen recently addressed the issue of spam in [...]

Publishing Article Series Tips and Techniques

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Publishing, SEO | 4 Comments

Excerpt reprinted with permission from the book, “Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging”, by Lorelle VanFossen
Writing a series of articles is a great way to connect related content together. It is also a great attention-getter, encouraging readers to return for the next installment.
On a blog, an article series must be planned in [...]

Blogger Lands $300,000 Book Advance

April 3, 2008 | Filed Under Blog News, Blogging, Problogger, Publishing | 6 Comments

Now that’s a nice contract! The blogger behind Stuff White People Like, Christian Lander, is said to have gotten a $300,000 advance from publisher Random House. That’s a lot of money, and not only for a book spawned by a blog.
This and more in an interesting piece over at the New York Times. It is [...]

Amazon Forces POD Publishers To Go BookSurge

April 1, 2008 | Filed Under Amazon, Publishing | Leave a Comment

Amazon’s got a new policy for POD, short for print-on-demand, publishers: Get with the BookSurge program, or the buy button goes. BookSurge is basically Amazon’s own POD operation, so they want all publishers to move over there.
This is quite a story, complicated and somewhat crazy. It’s about a company using its monopoly to make more [...]

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Ghost Bloggers Growing in Popularity?
July 18, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | 2 Comments

Toronto’s Globe and Mail is asking the question that’s on everybody’s mind (sarcasm): Does rapper Kanye West have a “ghost blogger?”
While the concept of ghost writing is hardly new (celebs have been relying on professional writers to create content that is officially credited to them forever), it looks like ghost blogging is blipping onto [...]

PodPress Update in 10 Days
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

PodPress is probably the most used podcasting plugin for WordPress, and the one we’ve been using here at The Blog Herald. However, there have been issues with it since WordPress 2.5, and it doesn’t work with recently released 2.6. Among others that are frustrated are David Peralty, who’s written about the issue.
Luckily, the PodPress developer [...]

Twitter Outage Used to do Upgrades, New Design Being Tested
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Twitter experienced an unplanned outage, and is down and out for maintenance. They are using this outage to upgrade the affected database, according to a blog post. The service is still down, but hopefully we’ll be getting our microblogging cravings satisfied soon.
Speaking of Twitter, they have apparently tested a new design on select users. SheGeeks [...]

Unannounced Blogging Hiatus
July 17, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’m back after a three-week bout of NoBloggingitis (be careful, it might be contagious). I never intended not to blog. Simply put, life just got in the way. The big event in my life was selling my place and moving into a new one. While I expected it to be stressful, [...]

Female Bloggers Want Out of Playboy Poll
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 3 Comments

Veronica Belmont and Sarah Austin wants out of the sexiest female bloggers poll on Playboy, according to a story on TechCrunch, but Playboy says no. It would, of course disrupt the poll. While I have no love for these kind of polls, and the Playboy one is no exception, I do think that if you’ve [...]

Pownce App Updates
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Microblogging service Pownce have updated their Pownce Desktop app to 2.0, which means you’ll get embedded media, notification alerts, friend management, and more. Pownce Desktop 2.0 is in alpha, and free to download.
The Pownce developers have also made an iPhone and iPod touch version available from the iTunes App store. Free, of course.

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