I wrote the following article on Facibus On Blogging on 25 June 2007. I forgot to renew the domain name so Facibus On Blogging is now lost to me. I’ll republish the most popular posts here over the next few months.
Blogging once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re […]
This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from F is for Friends, G is for Greatness, and H is for Hosting Options.
Inspiration - it is very hard to fake, and without it your blogging days are over. It’s that simple You can fake sincerity with some of the […]
This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from F is for Friends and G is for Greatness.
I’ve been a fan of self-hosting for a long time. Get a real blog platform, get a domain name, get a hosting setup, brand yourself, and build the brand (as an aside, I […]
My relationship with Entrecard has come to an end.
After encouraging dozens of other people to join, blogging about them repeatedly, and maintaining the Aussie Bloggers on Entrecard list since January this year, I received an email from them this morning to say that my account had been deleted - one of the three blogs I […]
Interesting thought - read this post on ReadWriteWeb:
The terms include a section giving Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.” That seems pretty extreme for a browser, doesn’t […]
This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from E is for Expansion. and F is for Friends.
When I started blogging seriously, I wanted to be a truly Great Blogger. Note the capitalisation. Great with a capital G. Not just successful, but truly Great.
“Andrew, what do you want to be […]
This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design and E is for Expansion.
Friends. You gotta have them. Apparently
Seriously though, it would be a pretty sad place without friends.
There are a number of posts around the metablogging community on exploiting the power of social […]
This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design.
So… you think you are pretty hot. You’ve got 30 followers on Twitter, FeedBurner tells you that more than a dozen people read every post you write, and your Analytics figures are on an upwards trend.
So you decide […]
Following on the trail of A is for Akismet, B is for Blogging Platform, and C is for Content, this post is about blog design - layout, colour, and styles. It not only draws on 18 months of blogging but 12 years of user centered design.
But first… the bottom line
Let’s be a little lateral and […]
Following on the trail of A is for Akismet and B is for Blogging Platform, here are my thoughts on what I’ve learned over the last 12 months about writing blog Content.
What it all comes down to is this - no matter how cool your theme is, or how great your advertising strategy is, or […]
