Archive for April, 2008
What Happens in Vegas…Gets Blogged About at Megavegalicious.com
What do you do if your a 23 year old living in Las Vegas and looking to start your new life in the United States. You blog! Forget your computer programming life in Romania and embrace the glitz and glamour of sin city. Let the world know about your adventures with a […]
Where Does Blogging Fit Into Your Life?
Blogging often starts as a curiosity or minor interest. You write a few posts, get a few visitors and a subscriber or two. You start reading other blogs (if you’ve not been doing this already) and adding more and more to your RSS reader. After a couple weeks, you find that ideas […]
The War Against Blog Commentors Who Use Keywords as Names
A couple months ago, I followed an interesting discussion at Remarkablogger related to a new comment policy that Michael Martine posted for his blog. It seems that Michael had become frustrated with the increasing number of comments on his blog that appeared to be more interested in plugging their websites keywords than adding to […]
Ms. Kinder Was Right: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Do Matter
Who’s Ms. Kinder? Ms. Kinder was my eighth grade English teacher. I assume she took the job when there was no more demand for Nazi drill sergeants. But despite Ms. Kinder’s Himmler-like techniques, what she taught us has proven to be valuable to my blogging success. So now, in front of […]
How’s Your Blogging Spam Filter Working?
One of the joys of blogging is screening the comments for the idiot spammers. You know…those fools that actually think people find their porn and Viagra by reading blog comments. Really, how successful is your online business if you have to resort to sticking ads on blogs by way of spamming comments?
Oh well, […]