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Blogging For A Cause
Blogging One of the things I’ve always liked about the blogging community is how quickly they’re willing to step up and help in times of need. Whether it’s organizing disaster relief, calling for the release of political prisoners, or fact-checking election debates, bloggers always seem eager to get involved. For the month of May, there’s a new way we can support the causes we believe in. Zemanta and Social Innovation Greenhouse @ ...
Continue readingBlogging Reviews, Part 2: Organizing Your Review
Blogging, Writing A few weeks ago, I wrote about some questions you should ask when writing a review. I wanted to follow-up that post with some tips for how to format your review. A well-structured review can keep the reader engaged and convey your expertise on the subject. Introduction I’m sure I don’t have to tell you your introduction needs to grab the reader’s attention and drag them into the article. There are a few things you can do with a ...
Continue readingDo You Make Your Living Blogging?
Blogging News That’s really the dream for a lot of us, isn’t it? To walk away from the 9-5 job and be able to make ends meet with our blog(s)? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, almost half a million people in the U.S. already are. According to the report — which is based on numbers from Technorati — 2% of bloggers make their living from blogging, and those that get more than 100,000 unique visitors a month make an ...
Continue readingTwitshirt: A False Start With Lots of Potential
Social Media You might not think a lot of wit can be stuffed into 140 characters, but most of the people I follow on Twitter inject a fair amount of humor into their updates. Some of them post clever jokes almost exclusively. As a medium for comedy, Twitter forces writers to use the bare minimum of setup for their punchlines. These little nuggets of humor may fall flat sometimes, but when they’re good, they’re really good. It’s not unlike ...
Continue readingEasy Blog Post Versioning with Dropbox
Software & Programs For me, the biggest part of writing is rewriting. A first draft is pretty easy to knock out, but the revising and refining are the real work. And more than once I’ve finished about the eighth revision when I realize #3 was the one I wanted. Then I have to remember what #3 said. Programmers know the solution to this is versioning software. With programs like Subversion and Git, you can track changes to a file and revert back to previous ...
Continue readingHuffington Post Announces Investigative Journalism Fund
Blogging News Seems like everyday there’s another story about a newspaper downsizing, going online only, or shutting its doors completely. It’s not particularly surprising: Online readership is growing while paper circulation continues to shrink. Despite it’s growth, though, online news does not generate near the revenue newspapers do. This makes many wonder what will happen to investigative journalism as newspapers disappear. Here’s ...
Continue readingTaking the Common Sense Approach to Twittering About Your Job
Blogging A recent article on MSN discussed how twittering can get you fired. Personally, I thought the story exaggerated the risks. The reporter didn’t find anyone that had actually been fired. She did find someone that was applying for a job and said something inappropriate on Twitter, but no one knows if it actually cost that person the job. So we’re left with lots of warnings about the dangers of sharing too much, but no real proof of the ...
Continue readingMovable Type Motion: Bringing Social Networks Back to Your Site
Software & Programs These days, many companies are devoting full time resources to monitoring and participating in social networks. As social sites grow in both size and quantity, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with the conversations that matter to your business. Six Apart, makers of the Movable Type blogging platform, are hoping their new Motion software is your solution to this problem. Motion is built on top of Movable Type Pro 4.25 and allows you ...
Continue readingZemanta Expands to Include Support for Safari, Google Chrome, and More
Links It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee published the proposal that would eventually become the World Wide Web. A lot has changed since then, but one thing remains the same: Linking is king. Quality links are the life blood of the web, not only for drawing traffic to you but for leading your readers to other resources that will serve them well. To help with this, several services have popped up that suggest ...
Continue readingIntenseDebate Adds Plugin Support
Blogging News The hosted comments market is definitely heating up. Part of it is blog owners wanting some control over who comments without requiring visitors to create yet another login. A bigger part, I think, is the growth of Tumblr, which is becoming popular — even with people that already have a blog — but does not have its own commenting system. Regardless of the reason, there’s already a number of players in this market, including ...
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