The I Follow Movement is not dead

So, you’ve probably read about the new breed of comment spammers on ProBlogger, and maybe even have read Wendy’s post about why she felt she   Read More »

Rockin’ Chick Bloggers

Char at Essential Keystrokes very kindly nominated me for a “Rockin’ Chick Blogger” award. Sometimes on this side of the blogging world, we girls can   Read More »

Speedlinking and a question (and a rant)

Branding is a topic I am very interested in, and Chris Garrett has just done a round-up of multiple posts on branding that includes a   Read More »

Update on some metrics and some speedlinking

About a month ago, I posted my intention to try and improve my Alexa rank. What did I do to improve it? Almost nothing really.   Read More »

Inspired by others

The recent post at Essential Keystrokes about the evolution of Char’s blog got me thinking about the last 6 months and how easy it is   Read More »

Bits and pieces

The blog metaphor group writing project wrapped up recently, and it turns out my post was one of the top 10! What a nice surprise!   Read More »

New way to make money with your site

I am excited to be in on the ground floor of a new monetization opportunity for bloggers and web site owners (thanks to Gayla), and   Read More »

7 Ways That Blogging is Like Opera

There’s been an interesting conversation going around lately about metaphors for blogging, and how we might explain blogging to someone who is not familiar with   Read More »

A new “do follow” plugin for trackbacks only

With the increasing popularity of the “I Follow Movement”, some have expressed concerns that announcing to the world that you have turned off the rel=”nofollow”   Read More »

Experiment in Improving my Alexa Rank

With my recent jump to a Page Rank of 5, I’m beginning to consider options for monetizing this site. Not heavily, but I wouldn’t mind   Read More »