Why Mentor Other Bloggers?
I mentor people when it makes sense and when I feel I can offer value toward their goals. Here I lay out an experience from blogging (I mentor at work and in my hobby circles as well). Mentoring is a win/win and here’s an example from my blogging world.
A while back I picked [...]Blog Safari 9-10-08
I had an absolute blast this week reading blogosphere posts about the brain and inspiration. Here are some I stumbled along the way. Please stumble them all, they are very deserving.
52 Sunday Evening Meditations on Life | Marc and Angel Hack Life
Great list of 52 “mantras” or meditations. Give ‘em a read.
ALEXEY [...]Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out
Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.
Suggestive and Summative Titles Make Bloghoppers Stay
I see the biggest challenge to blog authors today as keeping visitors on their site long enough to have an impact through their writing. I’ve seen and heard the effective traffic brought on by games and gimmicks for shiny items like designer jewelry. I wonder if that traffic really reads their stuff though. [...]
Google Sends PFTFF to Dead Letter Office: PR0
The expression: “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” seems especially appropriate for Google here at the beginning of 2008. I am no seo or blogging mmol genius but I do know a few things about logic and ethics and setting writers’ pagerank to zero is a choice lacking in both.
Under [...]Blogging is a Fad. Good Writing Isn’t.
The blogger over at Writing Aspirations makes some hefty points about blogging in 2007. Some I agree with, and some I am on the fence about. At any rate, it inspired me to share my history with the internet and writing, it’s been a long road that some bloggers might find helpful, if [...]
