blogging

  • Rambling thoughts on my stats

    In looking at my stats, it appears that I’m getting a huge amount of my traffic from search engines. So…does this mean that my site is either: * Excellently positioned to gain reasonable-to-high rankings on a wide variety of keywords, or… * Valuless, in that visitors from search engines are only interested in one thing…

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  • Congrats, Jeff

    One of the media/tech gurus I look up to, Jeff Jarvis, has quit his big-media job at Advance.net to strike out on his own as Buzzmachine, LLC. Among other things, Jeff will consult for The NY Times Company and is working on a “stealth-mode” citizen’s media startup. I first became a fan of Jeff’s when…

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  • Watch this trend: Service blogs and feeds

    I’ve been following some “Service” blogs and RSS feeds of late (my definition for a “service” blog or feed is one that provides some time of factual info, such as movie releases, weather forecast, dvd releases, etc). Recently, two new sites along these lines launched, and both look to be quite interesting: * Chicago Crime:…

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  • The Nashville blogging scene is pretty cool

    One of the best parts of attending BlogNashville was that I came away reading about 10 or so new blogs, at least 4 of them Nashville locals. Two of my favorites after a fortnight: Tim Morgan Saucy Librarian UPDATE: Welcome Nashvilleians, and thanks Brittney (even though you made fun of me twice in two days,…

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  • Professional ad blogger: frequency, professional design matter

    B.L. Ochman (one of the many fine folks I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville last weekend) has begun an interview series on her blog, whatsnext. First up is Adrants Steve Hall, who says, among other things, that frequency matters when blogging professionally: Hall posts 12 to 15 times a day. He doesn’t have…

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  • People who should be blogging, volume 1

    An unfinished list of people who I wish would start blogging* (because they’d be good, fun, and/or interesting doing it): * I had a certain Food Network host here, but I had to remove her because I was bombarded with Google image searches for her. Sorry, RR! *Cousin Sal, that fat, annoying idiot from Jimmy…

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  • Don’t F with Cox

    If you’re a member of the mainstream media, here’s a newsflash: Don’t F with Bob Cox. Here’s the original reason. Here’s the latest reason.

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  • The Nashville Scene on BlogNash

    Here’s Brittney Gilbert’s long, interesting Nashville Scene cover story on BlogNashville.

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  • Thank you, Mark!

    Mark Glaser, one of the best writers out there covering the web/blogging beat, has posted a great wrap-up of BlogNashville over at OJR. Glaser summarizes the key points coming out of the conference by offering up a list of “Seven big ideas (and one pet peeve)”…and lo and behold, the list includes one item created…

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  • Final thoughts on BlogNashville

    Now that BlogNashville is in the rear-view mirror, I have two final thoughts. My first comment is a big yee haw! If you click the fuzzy picture up top here, you’ll see a full-size screenshot of Blogdex, a service that essentially takes a snapshot of the most popular links around the blogosphere on a given…

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