Speedlinking and a question (and a rant)

by | Jul 9, 2007 | Blogging

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 lot of good reads: Branding Blog Post Round-Up – Readers Best Branding Posts @ chrisg.com Loved this post at ColourLovers.com...

Update on some metrics and some speedlinking

by | Jul 1, 2007 | Blogging

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. I installed the Firefox plugin, SearchStatus, and added the Alexa widget to my sidebar. I also released my Bluebird theme this month, which...

Inspired by others

by | Jun 27, 2007 | Blogging

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 to become immersed in a whole new community I had no idea existed. Blogging is addictive. This is not news to most of you. At...

Bits and pieces

by | Jun 17, 2007 | Blogging

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! Turns out everyone in the top 10 will get a free copy of Lorelle’s new book. I’m looking forward to reading it. Paul Enderson...

New way to make money with your site

by | Jun 11, 2007 | Blogging

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 I want to give you the opportunity to get in on it early as well! A leading distributor for Ask.com has a new program called Related...

7 Ways That Blogging is Like Opera

by | Jun 9, 2007 | Blogging

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 it. Char started it, and then Liz jumped on board, and then about a week ago, Dawud Miracle wrote...