Question: Does having a large vocabulary make you smart?

My answer is no. Having a large vocabulary means you are most likely book-smart and you have strong long-term memorization skills.You can usually sound smart, at least superficially and briefly.

So while having a large vocabulary may get you in the door somewhere, it really means nothing unless you know how to use it. It is not likely (although I’m sure one of you will tell me that it’s been done) that one could make much of a living reciting extensive, unorganized lists of…

Not again Google! I mean..why do it all the time? Give us something to cherish and look up to you guys. Seriously, this is going too far!

First it was the “selling links” issue, now it’s a PR downgrade you are gifting us. Come on!

Haven’t you guys got better things to do like protecting your credibility by doing something about the splogs and scrapers? Ah! No, don’t tell me you are working on it. Why don’t you prioritize that to a PR update?

Do you know that bloggers like us spend time…

Have you ever landed on a page of a great blog, read the post, and then wanted to learn more? Of course you have. You then clicked on the blog’s About page, and oriented yourself as to the blog’s purpose, focus and history. You learned something about the blogger. Perhaps you even contacted the blogger.

You’ve had the opposite experience too. You’ve read a post on a blog, wanted to learn more, and couldn’t. The blog was essentially anonymous; no About page, or any indication of who the blogger might be, or…

We bloggers have funny lives. Blogging means so much to us yet people think we waste time on blogging. We virtually live in two worlds, and both these worlds can be very demanding at times.

So how do you manage time to cope with the duties in both worlds and still have plenty of time left to enjoy yourself?

Trust me, I’ve struggled to manage time just as you do, and I know your pains. So without further ado, here are five time saving tips that I have come to rely on…

After 7 months we have finally crawled over the 1,000 subscriber mark. RSS feed growth has been a bit slower than I would have liked recently but I’m hoping that reaching 4 digits will help encourage more people to subscribe (ie. feed counts tend to grow exponentially if the blog is still being updated).

I’d like to thank all of you who subscribed and more importantly, I’d like to thank all of the authors of Blogging Tips. They have been writing some great articles recently and I know that if this…