Archive for 2007

Scott Adams, the author of the comic Dilbert is going to start blogging less because of the negative impact his blog has had on his income:
I hoped that people who loved the blog would spill over to people who read Dilbert, and make my flagship product stronger. Instead, I found that if I wrote nine [...]

Rob May on why blogging sucks and video is where it’s at:
The more I play in the online video space, the more I like it. Normal blogging is difficult because the moment there was money in it, everyone started trying to game the system by stuffing posts with keywords, maximizing titles for SEO, but writing [...]

ProBlogger:
The potential for StumbleUpon to send traffic is often under-estimated, particularly by new bloggers. Unlike digg and del.icio.us, an item doesn’t need to become popular before you see immediate results. One or two votes can bring a hundred or more readers — more than a new blog might see in a day.
StumbleUpon users are, however, [...]

FoxNews:
In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.
The effort is an extension of the blogosphere’s growing power and presence, [...]

The Catalyst Code:
The blogosphere is one of the biggest and most influential global industries created in the last decade. Technorati tracks almost 100 million blogs and estimates that about 20 percent of blogs are active in the sense that they were updated in the last 90 days. Hundreds of millions of people globally either operate [...]

In addition to probloggers for the Business Opportunities Weblog Network, I’m also looking for professional bloggers for my new site Clever Cruiser.

Today HP made two new resources available to website developers and bloggers who want to make it simple to print and reformat content from the
Internet in a useful, attractive format.
The Tabblo Print Toolkit at developer.tabblo.com, is a set of publicly available technology components, which enables web developers to incorporate print functionality into new and existing [...]

Looks like MediaTemple is continuing to have problems with their Grid Server system. Just received this email from them:
On 3/10/07 system engineers rolled out an upgrade (GMR v.1.2) to the (gs) Grid-Server which included many system enhancements and bug fixes. We have since discovered through an analysis of these upgrades, which made several changes [...]

ProBlogger:

Show them what they’re buying.
Traffic is a Powerful Motivator.
Collect Demographics.
Start with Small Advertisers.
Put together an Advertiser Pack.
Sell the Niche Angle.

Darren touches on some good points, but I have two things to add:
The first, and most important, in my opinion is to have an actual “Advertise Here” link in a prominent [...]

I’ve had a little problem with my GPUs on Media Temple’s grid server. I had a bit of an emergency on my dedicated server late last week, and so in a moment of panic (at about 1AM) I moved my entire network of Wordpress blogs from their regular server to the grid.
I was [...]