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Feed a Fever, Without Starving Your RSS Reader
Reviews If you’ve ever come back from a vacation or conference and been reluctant to open up your RSS reader due to the sheer number of unread items that certainly awaited, you are already familiar with “second inbox guilt”. It’s caused by having a second unread count, much like your email inbox, that you have to constantly churn and plow through every day. The cure for this disease, however, may well be a fever. Fever is a ...
Continue reading6 Things Bloggers Should Bring to Conferences
Blogging, Promote your blog This past weekend I was at WordCamp Dallas, where I was given the opportunity to both speak to and interact with a group of over 300 fellow WordPress users, bloggers and soon-to-be bloggers. It was a great event that was a unique combination of wonderful sponsors, great planning, spectacular speakers and great attendees. But if you are a blogger that is new to conferences, whether they are blogger-specific, technical or otherwise, there is a lot ...
Continue readingIs Tagging Still Important for Blog Posts?
Blogging When tagging was first made popular for bloggers several years ago, it was pushed to the forefront by Technorati as a means of helping searchers find your content. The idea was that searchers, instead of or in addition to using the regular text search, would prefer a tag search or that blog posts with appropriate tags would have a higher ranking. The reason being, keywords often show up in posts only partially related to the topic, but if a ...
Continue readingWhat To Do When People Aren’t Nice
Blogging It’s a dirty fact of the Web: When you combine anonymity with an instant global voice, which the Internet does perfectly, you’re going to run into a lot of jerks. It is amazing how quickly common sense and basic courtesy get thrown out the window as people people call one another names, tell lies, spread rumors and do whatever they can to hurt the people on the other side of the connection. It is sad, frustrating and petty. However, ...
Continue readingReview: Tweetdeck for the iPhone
Social Networking, Software & Programs On the 16th, as most iPhone users were gearing up for the release of version 3.0 of the iPhone OS the next day, Tweetdeck launched the very first version of its iPhone client. Many, myself included, were interested to see how Tweetdeck, an application known for taking up a great deal of screen real estate, would pare down for the iPhone. However, many were pleasantly surprised by just how elegant Tweetdeck for the iPhone turned out to be. ...
Continue readingOpera Unite: A Pratical Look
Software & Programs Norway based browser maker Opera had promised that, today, they were going to reinvent the Web. The fruition of that promise was it debuting its latest browser, Opera Unite. However, Opera Unite is not simply another better/faster/smarter browser, it is also a server that turns your browser into a two-way communication tool. In short, Opera Unite, a preview of which is currently available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux, hopes to blur ...
Continue readingShould Your Blog Have a Forum?
Blogging, Social Networking On some sites, blogs and forums seem to go hand in hand. For example, this site manages to have both a very active blog, complete with active coments, and a very active forum. Other well-known blogs, such as Smashing Magazine, also manage to pull it off as well. But is a forum right for you blog and what should you expect if you open one? I sat down with Patrick O’Keefe, the owner of the iFroggy network of sites and the author of the book ...
Continue reading5 Reasons People May Follow You on Twitter
Social Media Previously, I listed 5 Reasons They May Not Follow on Twitter and 5 Reasons They May Stop Following on Twitter. However, those two articles leave a natural question: What actually makes people follow you? Though I can only speak for myself, as with the other two articles, I took notes on my Twitter usage and studied the things that made me follow people. I found that, once one avoided the pitfalls listed in the two articles above, one typically ...
Continue readingBing and the Death/Rebirth of Blog Search
Search Engine Optimisation Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, despite being initially upstaged by Google Wave, has become the talk of much of the Web. The reviews of Bing have been fairly mixed. Though most believe that it is much better than Live.com, the search engine it is replacing, most don’t feel it to be superior to Google in any meaningful way (though some disagree). The interesting thing about Bing is that it seems to be very complete right out of ...
Continue readingIs Social News Traffic Worthwhile?
Blogging, Social Media As a blogger I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve reached the front page of Digg a few times, I’ve been Slashdotted a couple of times as well and I’ve even more than a few StumbleUpon storms. I’m by no means an expert on social news but, overall, it has been pretty good to me. I’m always grateful when others submit my work to any social news site and, up until very recently, I went to great, even outrageous, lengths ...
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