CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Brian at copyblogger today asks What’s Your Blog Really About? and gives some good tips for writing an about page, using mine as an example of how to write it: “Of course, I’ve been reading Darren’s blog for quite some time. But if I had just stumbled upon it today, ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead Yesterday I was in the centre of Melbourne and got stuck in the rain (no comments from my interstate friends please). I had left home without an Umbrella and quickly made the decision that I needed to buy one as I was going to be spending ...more

I’ve decided in the last week or so to take my own fight against Comment Spammers and Content Thieves to the next level. Every day I find people wasting my time and trying to make a quick buck from my blogs in ways that are either illegal, malicious, morally corrupt ...more

I have found in the last month that my blogging rhythm has changed quite considerably. My Old Blogging Rhythm A year or so ago I used to spend a higher percentage of the time I dedicated to blogging actually writing content. I was blogging as a solo blogger (no network ...more

Over on my link lust post (thanks to everyone that contributed) a reader asked me to name my own lusted after links. My answer was that while I could think of sites that could send larger amounts of traffic that one of my favorite places to get a link from ...more

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell For the most part, when people talk about blogging they are talking about a very conventional style of communication which describes what most of us are used to – a top-down, linear mostly text medium. While this is the ...more

As a blogger I have a love hate relationship with weekends. Less Work – On one hand they are great because the number of stories breaking on weekends drop (PR companies tend to make their announcements on weekdays and Journalists seem to favor them too for big stories) which means ...more

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by ‘reading’? Sometimes I get to the end of a day and look at all the unread items in my life (email, RSS feeds, books, magazines, newspapers, articles) and feel quite ill. I have great intentions of reading them all but with only 24 hours ...more

Shai’s posted a series of posts over at About.com on Law and Ethics for Bloggers that cover some worthwhile topics for bloggers to explore on topics like copyright, creative commons licenses and blog etiquette.