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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fred Wilson On Blogging

The top VC blogger talks about his craft here, worth a listen.

Source: AVC: A Talk I Gave On Blogging

Monday, May 16, 2011

Image via WikipediaWork is picking up, and that might mean I might have to slow down the blogging a bit. But I don't want to. Blogging is working out for the mind, and it makes no sense for a knowledge worker to slow down on blogging.

But one post a day is the goal, and anything more is bonus. Or at least that is what I thought. I have been blogging several times a day for months now.

Blogging several times a day feels like this.

2000 Squats
Freehand Exercise: 1000 Push-Ups, 1000 Squats, 1000 Crunches

Some people have asked me, how do you make time for blogging? Implicit in that question is the suggestion that blogging is something you do on top of work. I don't see it that way. Blogging is part of my work. And, no, I don't mean AdSense peanuts. I mean blogging is like my online resume. My blog allows me to do a lot of work related socializing online. I have entered into credible conversations because I have an active blog.

Because I am an active blogger, I believe I am a more active reader of tech news.

A New Floor Of 1,000 Page Hits

Last month my tech blog - Netizen - suffered because I was primarily focused on blogging for Reshma 2010 at my Barackface blog. (Reshma Saujani) I have only 20 posts at this blog in August as compared to almost 60 each for the two months before that. On the other hand I have 110 posts at my Barackface blog for August. That might be my best month at any blog ever. In a way I feel very good about that output. On the other hand I consider myself someone wanting to make a full time income as a blogger while blogging not being my primary thing to do.

I hate it when people call me a writer or a journalist. As far as my political blogs go - I got two - my work can more appropriately be described as digital activism. The work is political. You are trying to impact, you are trying to contribute. You are trying to move and shake things.

My best day at this blog has been 3,000 page hits. By now I think a floor of 1,000 page hits for a day is no big deal. It can be done. I worked extra hard yesterday and already things are picking up.

I want the floor at this blog to be 3,000 page hits. I want the ceiling to become the new floor. A few weeks of work might bring that about.

1,000 is a very good number for a day. That is about 10% of what Fred Wilson's blog does.

What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Google Also Answered My Blog Search Prayer

Now I would really, really like to sit on the Board of Google.

My Gmail Prayers Heard: Multiple Inboxes
A Ridiculously Good Blog Search Engine
Google Does Not Need Social Envy

This is still not the blog search engine I asked for, but it is a great start.

There is an information angle to search, and there Google can carve out an easy lead. Google does not need to "get" social. Actually my argument has been that it is not possible for the same company to be extremely good at information and also be extremely good at social. You can either be a chimpanzee or an orangutan. You can't be both. Sorry. It is a DNA thing. Google should stick to what it is good at, and keep blazing ahead with Android and the Chrome OS. Those two are paradigm shift promises.

I never really "got" the iPod, but I can't wait for the Chrome OS netbook. (The iPad Is No Laptop Killer)

ReadWriteWeb: Google Launches Blog Finder For Any Topic: This has the potential to be a wildly useful service. How many of you have had professional or personal reasons to seek a list of the top blogs on a new topic?.... then a new option will appear in the sidebar: search for posts or blog home pages related to your query......pages and pages of clearly topical sources ...... The more closely tied the title of the blog is to your search query, the higher the blog shows up in search results. That's not the best indicator of quality or authority...... Add some ranking, some OPML export, and then we're really talking.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

John Chow

My Blog Business Model from John Chow on Vimeo.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

The Pro-Blogger's Daily Routine

Eric Schmidt talks about the newspaper industry. I get the impression he is talking to Rupert Murdoch on his turf, the Wall Street Journal.
The numero uno professional blogger Darren Rowse always has good stuff at this blog. He pours out daily.
How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Your Blog
ProBlogging – 10 Things I Wish I Knew when I Started
$72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned
7 Questions to Ask On Your Blog to Get More Reader Engagement
What to Do When Your Search Rankings Drop
From Blog to Small Business: Tips for Taking Your Blog to a Whole New Level
What You Can Learn About Blogging Business Models from a Hip-Hop Artist Who Used to Hustle on the Corner Just to Put Food in His Daughter’s Mouth. An Ode To Biggie, Small Business and Making Money. It’s Juicy.
The dude publishes daily. That right there is discipline.
What makes Google Chrome fast? DNS pre-resolution, the V8 JavaScript engine, and DOM bindings.
Fathoming Google's Friend Connect.
The Copy Blogger is also noteworthy.
The First Rule of Copyblogger
The Eminem Guide to Becoming a Writing and Marketing Machine
The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media Marketing
The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
Blogging is Dead (Again)
Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart Traffic Strategy?
The #1 Conversion Killer in Your Copy (And How to Beat It)
How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer
Image via CrunchBase

Is Your Tribe Holding You Down?
Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging
5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words
How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It)
How to Be Interesting
How to Increase Your Blog Subscription Rate by 254%
How to Create Ebooks That Sell
Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?
How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Do You Make These 7 Mistakes When You Write?
Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb
The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging
10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well
5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang
The Two Most Important Words in Blogging

Thursday, July 16, 2009

PayCheckr Potential

Allan Hoving and I are meeting in person this evening.

PayCheckr sure got a great idea, and it has been gutsy enough to want to tackle a core problem on the web right now. It is not as fundamental as search, but is close. I am impressed with the idea. Questions remain.

Are you willing to expand the vision enough to truly do service to the idea?
Are you willing to bluntly assess your resources or lack thereof? Can your engineering team deliver? If not, are you willing to expand?
Are you willing to raise some serious money?

Netizen: The First Blog To Place The PayCheckr Button
The PayCheckr Promise
PayCheckr Potential
PayCheckr: Bringing Money Into Blogging?