Susan Gunelius from Marketing Blurb reminded you all a few weeks ago not to forget RSS Awareness Day on May 1st. Did you forget? 
What Is RSS Awareness Day?
RSS awareness day is a campaign from Daily Blog Tips to try and spread the word to everyone about the benefits of using RSS. I think this is a good idea as even though all major news websites have RSS feeds, the general public has been incredibly slow at subscribing to them. Mainly because they don’t appreciate the benefits of using RSS.
I encourage you…
Last week I asked if blogging is killing you. After a series of deaths (or near deaths) of popular bloggers primarily linked to stress, I found it refreshing to read Heather B. Armstrong’s (of the wildly popular Dooce.com) methods of dealing with some of the negatives of blogging in The Wall Street Journal.
Heather uses an unorthodox method of anger management. She prints out the comments made on her blog that are particularly mean, places the papers on her driveway, then runs over them with her car.
I think Heather provides a great…
Today Darren Rowse announced the release of his first book entitled ‘ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income‘. The book was co-written with former BloggingTips author Chris Garrett and is now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The book is available in paperback and it’s 240 pages covers such topics as :
- How Bloggers Make Money
- Direct Income Earning vs. Indirect Income Earning methods
- Why Niches are Important
- 20 Ingredients for a successful blog post
- Optimizing advertising
- Which advertising platforms work best
- Expert analysis of Technocrat’s Top Blogs - why they work
The book was…
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Blogging to Death ever since the New York Times wrote about the deaths of high-stress bloggers Sunday. It’s discussed in the recent post here, “Is Blogging Killing You?” There is also a post, “What’s Wrong with the Blogosphere?” at Performancing, where Raj Dash points out:
I find one day’s blogging to be far harder work than producing, say, 1,000 lines of computer code in one day. (The industry standard for programmers used to be about 10 lines of finished code per day.) Each…
It might sound like an amusing question, but it appears that there could be some truth to it. Is blogging killing you? According to an article in the New York Times on Sunday, blogging can be fatal, or at the very least, contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle that could lead to death.
Sadly, two well-known bloggers, Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant, died in the past few months from heart-related conditions. Their stress levels may have contributed to their conditions, and much of that stress may have come from blogging. These men were only…
