CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Lifehacker has a good guide to weblog comments with the following tips: Stay on topic. Contribute new information to the discussion. Don’t comment for the sake of commenting. Know when to comment and when to e-mail. Remember that nobody likes a know-it-all. Make the tone of your message clear. Own ...more

Has anyone else noticed recently that a lot of people leaving genuine comments on blogs have also started leaving ‘signature like’ links to their own blogs at the bottom of their comments? (NB: I’m not talking about links within comments that are relevant to the conversation happening in the comment ...more

One of the best parts about this blog is that it puts me into direct contact with hundreds of bloggers from around the world every week. This happens on a variety of levels – comments, email and increasingly Instant Messaging. I have my IM details on my about pages which ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead The Travelator is a wonderful invention. There is nothing better than rushing for a flight at an airport and seeing that the long walk to the departure gate is going to be cut down by jumping upon one of these moving sidewalks. On a recent trip ...more

Chrish has posted an interesting post over at Quertyrash titled ‘How do you tell your better half you’re going to be a pro-blogger?‘ He writes: ‘Was just chatting to a friend and told her: How do i tell my wife?!! “It’s okay dear, I’m just gunna play on the internet ...more

Quite a few people have asked how they can put a red cross donate now button on their blog like the one that I have in the upper right hand corner. You can simply do so by following the instructions on Brian Alvey’s Weblog. Found via Jason

One of the most common questions I get asked when people hear about my blogging earnings is ‘how long has it taken’ to get as far as I have? The short answer is that it’s taken a considerable amount of time. I’ve been blogging since November 2002 and started to ...more

Spring has Sprung here in Melbourne and so it’s an appropriate time for Spring Cleaning for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere. Duncan is extending his Spring Cleaning to his blog at Quick spring cleaning tips for your blog which includes a variety of ways to freshen up a ...more

Sometimes it is really fun to be a small time blogger because it can free you up to do things that a lot of the bigger websites in your niche are unable to do. For example – my Digital Camera site is one of my bigger blogs – yet in ...more