The Pessimists Guide to Blogging: Ambition

I’m starting a series of posts that I’ve decided to call ‘The Pessimists Guide to Blogging’… over the next couple of weeks (perhaps even longer if these posts are met with a little more than a dull dose of apathy), I’m going to look at one rather pessimistic view of the blogging life and [...] Continue Reading…

Bloggers in the Mainstream Media

Australian Pro-Bloggers Darren Rowse, Karen Cheng and Neerav Bhatt were interviewed on mainstream Australian TV news today (shown on Channel 10, one of three main commercial TV channels shown Australia-wide).

The Interview focused on the increase in people working from home and making a great income from blogging - it was nice to see a [...] Continue Reading…

Working the System vs Beating the System

One of my favourite bloggers is Seth Godin, I always find the time to read his posts.

Seth is a marketing mastermind, and while most of the topics he talks about are basic principles, they are things that many people get wrong and ones that we need to  be constantly reminded of as bad marketing [...] Continue Reading…

FriendFeed Rooms - Making a Better Forum

In the past couple of days FriendFeed have added ‘rooms’ to their service. Essentially a room is like a forum, except that you can manage it within your overall lifestream.

FriendFeed, for those who don’t know is a social media aggregator, it allows you to import all your social media feeds (blog RSS, twitter feed, [...] Continue Reading…

EntreCard - My experience so far

I’ve been on EntreCard, what - four days now. I’d hardly call myself an expert, but I’ve had a pretty good time playing around with it over the past few days and I thought I’d share my experiences with you and give you an idea of how I’m approaching it.

I’m not suggesting that what [...] Continue Reading…

Free EntreCard eBook + Link Multiple Blogs on your EntreCard Account

Ok, I’m new to EntreCard - you know that, but it seems like I’ve jumped in at the right time… they’ve just released a free 19 page eBook that details all the inside info from the basics of ‘getting started’, to advanced topics such as dropping strategies and reducing your bounce rate.

Admittedly, the advanced [...] Continue Reading…

Understanding the Blog Lifecycle - Getting Past the Barriers

I came across a good post today on Problogger, and it’s very pertinent to what we’re talking about here so I thought I’d share it with you and and expand on a couple of things in the off-chance that you don’t read Problogger and have missed it!

The Post is called ‘Understanding the Blog Lifecycle [...] Continue Reading…

How to Enable Email Subscriptions to your Blog

Most bloggers want their readers to subscribe to their content - the whole reason we do what we do is to be heard. Relying on our visitors to remember to check the blog for new content is far from ideal… no matter how much they like it, one day they will ‘forget’ and that [...] Continue Reading…

Following Conversations on Twitter - Changes to @ replies

One of the great things I like about Twitter is ‘overhearing’ conversations between people you follow, and others they are following - it’s a great way to find even more interesting people to follow.

Unfortunately the people at Twitter don’t seem to agree with me, a new update to their blog today: How @replies work [...] Continue Reading…

Don’t let your Blog become a Duck Pond

I was cleaning my pool today - it needed it.

The weather has turned cooler and maintenance has been non-existent for the last month or so. There was a thick layer of green sludge on the bottom, sticks and leaves floating on top, and for the last few weeks a family of ducks have decided [...] Continue Reading…