December 31, 2007 – 1:44 am
Okay, this is fun! If you’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 and also the latest version of PodPress 8.8, you may be in for some Internal Server Error page hijinks. As far as I know right now, the only solution is to deactivate the PodPress plugin.
Update: I don’t think PodPress really has anything to do [...]
December 31, 2007 – 1:22 am
Remarkablogger’s gonna get a shiny new theme and redesign for 2008! There may be some goofiness during the transition. Right now my contact forms are disabled, and you may get Internal Server Error pages as you navigate the blog. If that happens, just reload the page and it should be fine. I’ll get it all [...]
December 30, 2007 – 1:46 pm
Common Craft is a wonderful site and service (yes, service) that produces these whimsical (probably the only time you will ever see that word on this blog) videos that explain things in plain English. Techy things, like RSS and Wikis. Many of you know people who don’t really get the whole blogging thing (sorry for [...]
December 28, 2007 – 10:24 am
Tip of the hat to the Six Pixels of Separation Blog for finding the Seth Godin Action Figure! Man, I gotta get me one. I’ll carry him around in my shirt pocket, like the little voice of permission marketing and remarkability.
December 26, 2007 – 11:41 am
Two well-known people discussing the future of media, publishing, advertising, and blogging. One is former Microsoftie and corporate blog advocate Robert Scoble. The other is former editor of Wired Magagzine, The Industry Standard (trying for a comeback), and author of best-selling The Search John Battelle. Battelle now heads up the rising Federated Media. Battelle has [...]
December 26, 2007 – 10:02 am
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Facebook is the most worthless waste of time ever?
Facebook is so maddeningly useless to me, I just can’t stand it anymore. I don’t want to be poked, bitten by vampires, sent drinks, find out if my movie tastes are like someone else’s, join a group for [...]
December 24, 2007 – 2:34 am
My Blog Booster project is a great success, but it brought me face to face with a lot of new blogs. Although I hate to say it, I saw some common beginner’s mistakes. Of course, I want to help everyone do the best they can, so as my little holiday gift to everyone, I made [...]
December 20, 2007 – 8:08 pm
UPDATE: I’ve closed comments on this, because it was so popular that the list of blogs for people to visit is getting too long. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s a wonderful thing! Rest assured I will do this again in the near future! But for now, I’d like to thank all of you who [...]
December 19, 2007 – 4:57 pm
There are plenty of food blogs online, but what makes for a really good food blog? Maybe you’ve been thinking about starting a food blog or you’ve recently started a food blog. What should you do? Learn from other food blogs, that’s what!
Pick a Specific Sub-Niche
There’s a lot of food out there! Sure, a food [...]
December 18, 2007 – 3:12 pm
Forget about trying to find something radically different to explore, some new topic or subject, unless you are
authentically compelled to do so. Forget about trying to crank out another list, product, service or widget and then market the hell out of it.
Focus instead, on the much harder work of developing your voice. (Jonathan Fields)
Everyone [...]
December 17, 2007 – 12:26 pm
Juan Tornoe tells the story of how his blog ranked higher than CNN for a search term and how amazing amounts of traffic ended up at his blog, where they followed a link through to CNN. The traffic permanently boosted his normal traffic from that point on.
“Under blog posts, I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]
December 17, 2007 – 9:37 am
The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship 3 is up over at Bootstrapper. My recent post on The Secret to a Successful Business Blog: Sell without Selling is on the list, but there are many other rockin’ links for you to get your biz on. I was going to list some of them, but really you [...]
December 15, 2007 – 4:51 pm
Shane asked me if I was doing the interview, and even though there is no way that my answers would ever be as witty as Naomi’s, I said absolutely I would do it. So here’s the deal: you interview yourself and add your own question at the end. Then you post on your blog and [...]
December 12, 2007 – 1:19 pm
The social network burnout backlash continues: Noted by Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection (and others, but that’s how I found it), the GigaOm blog has a very interesting post today about a project which will allow social network style functionality in WordPress and other blogging systems, called DiSo (also here). There has been some [...]
December 10, 2007 – 9:07 am
Yes, it’s been a while since the last Overheard in the Blogosphere. You know why? Because it’s about quality, not quantity. Please enjoy responsibly. Whatever that means (as an aside, what a coup of marketing propaganda that slogan is!)
Facebook is pushing themselves into a position of being viewed as ungrateful data hogs: amassing tons of [...]
December 8, 2007 – 10:56 am
Secret to a Successful Business Blog:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download
There is a problem with business blogs. The content and the approach to business blogging seems to fall into two categories: overselling and underselling. What you want is to sell without selling at all.
It can be done, but before we talk about how, let’s make sure we understand the problem.
Overselling
The overselling business blog is [...]
December 7, 2007 – 8:18 am
Tim Ferriss speaks at a viral marketing conference, but not about blogging. Except that it is about blogging, if you look at it that way. By telling how he marketed to bloggers, you can learn a lot about how to market yourself and your blog.
December 6, 2007 – 12:04 am
WP Candy
I got an email from Mike Castilla out of the blue the other day telling me about his blog, WP Candy. What a great name! What is WP Candy about? The WP stands for WordPress, of course, so the blog is full of nice themes and reviews and other WordPress-related goodness. Backing all this [...]
