Sports blogging (I run a football (soccer) blog, in case you’re interested) is a difficult business - being opinionated can work against you, you get thrashed from all ends and the people who like what you do rarely speak up (mainly because the people you’re pissing off - you’ll always piss people off - are so vocal they drown everything else out).
In some ways I’ve found sports blogging to be the litmus test for defining yourself as a writer and as a blogger. Can you handle the criticism? Can you…
BlogRush have just announced that they will be offering users a variety of colors to choose from for their widget.
John Reese published an update at Income.com saying
You’ll be able to choose the color of your choice so it more closely matches the design of your blog.
MORE NEWS…
It seems that some people are trying to call BlogRush a “pyramid scheme” or stating “there’s just no way the future impressions will ever be able to be served based on the promises of what referrals will bring. The math is impossible like other schemes…
Hello all, I am Chris and I am a new blogger here. You might have seen it mentioned recently that I am going to be joining this blog. As well as this blog you can find my articles on a variety of sites such as my own blog about blogging and online marketing, posts about writing at copyblogger, and web2.0 and productivity at Codswallop.
When I start writing for a new blog it is often met with surprise. Don’t I already write for a ton of blogs already? Well, yes, but I have never…
A decision that all video bloggers need to wrestle with is how to host their videos. Conventional branding wisdom would dictate that you host them yourself. On the other hand, viral marketing doctrine suggests that you upload your content to as many channels as possible.
With about a dozen decent alternatives to YouTube, however, deciding how to host you video content can be tough. At the end of the day, video bloggers should strike a healthy balance between bandwidth, distribution/reach, branding, and community. They can do this by choosing to upload their content…
I work as a journalist, a music critic, a copywriter, an event planner, a travel writer, a teen magazine writer, and a professional blogger. Believe me when I say there is no better writing gig than getting paid to blog. I can use an informal, personal style. I can crack jokes. And most of my blog editors (including Kevin; thanks, Kevin!) give me a tremendous amount of freedom when it comes to choosing topics and crafting a “voice.” As Ferris Bueller might say, “it is so choice. If you have…
