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What If You Couldn’t Blog?
Blogging It’s my own fault, of course. I probably jinxed myself. Just after I wrote about being a healthy blogger, I got an injury – nothing serious, but enough to make it difficult for me to type – not good news for a professional blogger and web content writer. It’s not the first time this has happened to me, but as usual it got me to thinking about how bloggers should handle the situation if they were unable to blog. A Virtual ...
Continue readingAre You A Healthy Blogger?
Blogging As bloggers, we know we should look after our health more, but we often don’t. No matter how many times people tell us to step away from the computer and take a break, we just keep on writing those posts, gripped by an idea we’re afraid we’ll lose if we leave the computer for even a single second. The truth is we’re not doing ourselves any favors by being obsessive about our blogging and writing routine. A bit more ...
Continue readingAll Your Updates In A Nutshell
Blogging When I first heard of NutshellMail, I thought: “Why on earth would I want another application to send me notifications?” I was wrong. It’s turned out to be one of the most useful things I’ve found recently. Charnita Fance featured the site last year in a post on Twitter applications for tracking lost followers, but it does so much more than that. What is NutshellMail? In its own words: “NutshellMail takes copies of ...
Continue readingBlogging – Five Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Blogging Michael Martine has started an open discussion on his blog: what do you wish you’d known earlier? Since it’s always good to see where you are and what you’ve learned, I thought I’d respond here. Blog hosting One of the first things I wish I’d known was the value of self-hosting your blog. I think free blogs are a great way to find out if you like blogging, but then you should host your own blog as soon as you can. ...
Continue readingTen Reasons Why Twazzup’s Twitter Reader Rocks
Blogging I’ve been playing with a new tool recently – Twazzup’s Twitter reader. It’s an add-on to a previous real-time search service (which I must admit I hardly ever use). But the reader itself is a thing of beauty. Here are ten things I like about it. 1. Simple Start Login with Oauth and you’re in; it’s that simple. 2. Updating on updates When you login, you can see how many new updates, replies and messages you ...
Continue readingTop Tools For The Nomadic Blogger
Blogging One of the great things about being a blogger is that you can do your job from anywhere in the world. It’s one of the best careers to have if you want to escape the cubicle and achieve independence – or location independence. In the past year, I’ve covered thousands of miles while continuing to meet my blogging commitments. What tools do you need to make it happen? Here’s how it works for me. Software The tool I use most ...
Continue readingTwo New Tools To Cut The Twitter Clutter
Blogging When I first started using Twitter, I could track shared links and articles with ease. Now that I’m following a few hundred people, it’s no longer that simple. Two new tools have helped to cut the clutter and improve how I interact with Twitter. They are Zite and Paper.li. Zite Zite is a bare bones interface which links with your Twitter account to focus on topics that might interest you. When you first link it to your account it ...
Continue readingWatching Your Blog Stats — Another Perspective
Blogging Vikas recently warned against becoming obsessed with blog stats. He noted that bloggers could become tense and could compromise on quality because of this obsession. While he makes some good points there is another way of thinking about it. I suggest that if you are a serious blogger you need to keep an eye on your blog stats because what you learn will help you improve your blog. I check my blog stats regularly but it’s not an obsession ...
Continue readingBlogging Then And Now
Blogging If you were starting a new blog today what’s the first thing you would do? I’ve just started a new blog and I started thinking about the difference between my first blog and this one. Here are some of the things I looked at. Then I bought a domain, tying it vaguely to some of the services I hoped to offer. I simply added the blog onto that and it had no clear identity of its own. Now I thought very carefully about the topic I wanted ...
Continue readingDid The Frugal Theme Solve My Throttling Problem?
WordPress Themes Last week I wrote about the problem I was experiencing with Bluehost throttling my blog. I did a bit of digging around to see if I could find any more information on the problem. I looked into my stats package and confirmed that many of the heavy use files were linked to the Headway theme. Much as I love it I knew that it would have to go so I decided so I decided to try another theme that I had been looking at for some time – the Frugal ...
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