Rebecca Blood on Blogging
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Rebecca Blood on Blogging

I’ve been Reading The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood over the past few days and am really enjoying her relaxed and clear style of writing. ‘A weblog is a coffeehouse conversation in text, with references as required.’ She writes with insight and wisdom as a blogging practitioner. I found her ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Translate your Blog into other Languages
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Translate your Blog into other Languages

Ever wanted to make your blog more accessible to people of other languages? I havn’t done it yet – but here is a link on How to set your blog up for Machine Translation Looks like it might be reasonably easy to do.
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Viral Blogging
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Viral Blogging

I’ve been reading Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin this past week or so. I’m really taking my time over it and whilst it doesn’t mention blogging at all I’m finding many applications for thinking about medium. One of his key themes is that of ‘smoothness’…. A virus (of ...more
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Link unto others – Blog Tip
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Link unto others – Blog Tip

The following blog tip was submitted by Phil Wolff from blogs such as Don’t Blog, Blog Count, emblog and a klog apart. Links make blogs different than paper. When you see something interesting online, link to it. Something useful, memorable, fascinating? Link, link, link. Each link is a vote. Your ...more
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Blog Cards
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Cards

Blog Cards are like Business Cards that feature a bloggers blog address to make networking easier. Ripples and BuzzMachine are both talking about making and using Blog Cards. David St Lawrence of Ripples writes ‘I made up a blogging business card some weeks ago because I got tired of writing ...more
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Blog Design Showcase
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Design Showcase

Want to know what a good blog design looks like? Blog Desiger – Rachel Cunliffe has just released the Blog Design Showcase. She writes: This is a collection of outstanding blog designs, thoughts on what makes a good blog design, and will also be where I announce new blogs that ...more
Blog Design
Blogging Books
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogging Books

Blogging about Blogging is happening with growing frequency on many weblogs, but writing in hard copy is also becoming more popular. Here are a few of the best selling and most popular books on the topic. (Descriptions are taken from Amazon) I’ve read most of the first two – both ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Understanding Trackback And Comment Notification
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Understanding Trackback And Comment Notification

Dave Pollard writes some great Blog Tips – here is another good one on Understanding Trackback. ‘Trackback simply lets another site know that you have a post referring to it on your own site. Read the previous sentence until it makes sense.’
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Three quick ways to increasing visitors to your blog in a week
23rd of September 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Three quick ways to increasing visitors to your blog in a week

Wayne Hurlbert shares Three quick ways to more visitors in one week. It is written more with a business blog in mind but most of it is somewhat transferable. He also has a good link on Analyzing our visitor counter logs
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