Tag Archives: Blogging

Why It’s Cool Not to be an A-Lister

Obviously, despite all the talk of long tails, quitting blogging, and all the other issues flying around lately, there are a hell of a lot of perks to being an A-List blogger, or indeed an A-List anything. One huge perk of not being an A-List blogger occurred to me the other day, however – being [...]

The Nature of Blogging II

Richard Querin, a long time member of my reading list, has made a very well thought out and constructive post in response to my post about the nature of blogging. Let me just say that said post was never meant to garner any attention, let alone such a lengthy and interesting response, which is something [...]

The Nature of Blogging

It is interesting to analyze how I go about blogging you know. For a long period now, I have had a complete writer’s block of sorts. Sure, I write my articles for MobileBurn, which I enjoy greatly, but I have been at a loss for anything to write about on a more personal note. It’s [...]

Word 2007 Blogging Problems – I’m Not Alone

It seems that I’m not alone in my problems blogging with the Word 2007 Beta, detailed here. Ed Bott, in a post about a free AV for Vista beta testers, notes that when he tries to publish from Word 2007 to his Wordpress blog his posts seem to disappear into the ether.
I don’t believe that [...]

Stop Your Whinging, A-List

Read this (from Gadgetophile) – it is probably one of the most blunt, short, to-the-point, yet bang on the money posts I have read in a long time. Kudos guys.

You’re a Bad Blogger!

Let me ask a question: Are you a bad blogger if you don’t post to a schedule? I have been terribly busy getting through the piles of pictures and notes I have from CeBIT in Hannover last week, and so I haven’t posted much at all. Am I a bad blogger?

Google Desktop and My Feed – Love at First Sight

I have been quite busy with CeBIT, as well as some other projects, these last couple of days, so I have been quite bad with updating the blog. Sorry folks, my bad.
Something interesting to note though – I was looking through my feed statistics just then, and by a rather large margin, Google Desktop is [...]

Substandard Standard

I just threw what is being touted as the new standard feed icon on to the sidebar of this blog – the little orange box with the radio waves. I’m all for a standard in this department, as much as I don’t really like the look of the icon, but will use it to (as [...]

Design Mistakes on Weblogs

Jakob Nielsen has written a great list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes people make on weblogs. If you have your own blog, definitely give it a read.
I think my biggest rule breaker is the fact that I don’t have an about me page. I have never really though about this, but now that I [...]

Ads on Blogs

That crazy Canadian D’Arcy Norman has grabbed my interest again with his post about him ’selling out’ and putting Google AdSense ads on his blog (and since removing them again). I disagree with you D’Arcy, it wasn’t selling out at all.
I think that a blog has just as much right to place ads on pages [...]