May
6
I Dofollow Comments
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My nofollow comment status is coming down.
Dofollow Comments as a Linking Philosophy
A good conversation is worth fistfulls of gofollows or nofollows or any kind of follows. Why? Because people who have participated in or read a good conversation on a blog are likely to come back and do it again. Unlike Search [...]
Mar
19
What I’m Doing Instead of Attending SES-NY
Filed Under Blogging, Social Networking, The Meaning of Life | 3 Comments
Dazzlin Donna has inspired me.
…let’s pull this baby back to what I was originally talking about. Content. Giving users what they crave. Right…now we’re back. I’m going to spend a fair amount of time on just this one topic, and I’m going to give my visitors lots of content to quench their [...]
Mar
15
I Dream of Way Cool Blog Posts, but it’s not what you think
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Soooo, at about 9:00 Friday evening I was working on a blog post, not this blog post, aaaand thought I’d take a little Stumble break before polishing it off. The next thing I knew it was after 1:00 am Saturday and I was in that twilight zone where a person wonders if they are [...]
Mar
10
No Rest For The Dyslexic
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Yesterday, or earlier today, or at some point before I got going this yesterday morning… scratch that. Starting over: I re-set my clock for daylight savings time. Or I thought I did. In reality, I set it an hour behind when I was supposed to set it an hour ahead - [...]
Mar
7
An unWhiz Bang List
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Boredom hit when I was working on a post that took the form of a list of ways to do something. There are so many of those posts out there right now! I may go back and do the post later, but for today here are a few thoughts from listmind.
Here is a [...]
Feb
25
I Can Haz Onion?
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Peel an onion and what do you get? More onion.
Peel me and what do you get? More than one kind of layer, that’s for sure, except…
…I hear it’s good for a site to have “focus.” (wink)
I’m the boss, this is my mother ship, and for here and now, what you’re [...]
Feb
20
Creative Blogging: Plans Versus Experience
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In my past life there was a time when I drew every day. I had dedicated studio space where anywhere from ten to thirty drawings would be tacked to the “good light” part of the wall that was reserved for work in progress. A series of drawings or paintings would start off unified [...]
Feb
9
DazzlinDonna on Community - an Interview
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In mid January I asked readers to tell me what they want to see more of in this blog. I offered to interview whoever’s idea made me “the happiest and most interested.” Donna Fontenot of DazzlinDonna commented that she’d like to see me expound on my tag line, “Using the Internet to Build [...]
Feb
3
Breaking the Mold Without Breaking Myself
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Creativity is a bit like a butterfly net. A butterfly net can be a tool, an unused artifact, a source of silly visual jokes and metaphors - determining its significance requires perspective. Most of us don’t have a butterfly net on hand at any given moment, and a net doesn’t do much on [...]
Jan
28
Self and Search
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A few years ago someone who I respect very much suggested that only the egotistical would consider putting yet another page online about something that someone had already done well. I argued that there is a lot of room in the world for more of anything good. Otherwise, the last gothic romance would [...]
Jan
24
A Little Forecast
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Background bits:
Even when there are very few actual visitors, blog posts that contain very specific terms get found via a search or two. It’s nice to be needed, and found. Search is cool.
Some of the posts that were the most fun to write got the most attention from friends, especially when I kicked [...]
Jan
23
Resistance is Fertile
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I am a locus of blogville. My life as it has been is over. From this time forward I will serve the very verve of Stumble and ping.
Search is irrelevant. Social bookmarking is seductive. Resistance is fertile. I wish to improve myself. I will blog to live and live [...]
Jan
18
Blogrolling My Footer
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A couple posts ago I wrote about at-a-glance features that help me get a quick sense of what’s going on with a blog. For the next few posts I’m going to chip away at adding some of those features to my own blog. My first target will be some sidebar links devoted to [...]
Jan
18
Blogging Is The Devil, Or Not
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Yesterday I spent a couple hours getting to know StumbleUpon better. I had entirely too much fun sorting and clicking and searching. I added some interests to my profile, including blogging, of course.
How could this be? Blogging: 666.
I heard a lonely meow-yowl, looked over my shoulder and saw that my cat had [...]
Jan
16
Blog Love, at a Glance
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I often look at up to 100 blogs a day, many of which I have never seen before. That’s a lot of skimming. I don’t read all that I see. What makes the difference between reading and not reading, subscribing and not subscribing? It depends. Here are some of the [...]
Jan
15
Making Your Own Luck
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Do you ever feel helpless? As if problems are too big or too unfixable, and there is not enough time or love to go around? Try out this survival skill: make your own satisfaction.
How do I create my own satisfaction? Let me count the ways.
Taking a Bite Out of Crime
Today I reported [...]
Jan
13
Tell Me What You Want
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Thanks in great part to a Stumble from Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People, I’m having a nice flush of visitors today. Yaaay! Yesterday there were two sets of live eyeballs here that weren’t yours truly. Today, so far, MyBlogLog says it looks like this:
AbleReach Blog
Readers: 220
Page views: 505
Offsite clicks: 4
About 50 [...]
Jan
13
Feeding the (feed)Reader
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Yesterday was odd. I had pretty good readership according to FeedStats, but MyBlogLog, Google Analytics and the stat thingy that comes with my server told me I had two visitors on January 12th, aside from myself. Two! Not kidding! Also yesterday, one person added themselves to this blog’s MyBlogLog Community, and [...]
Jan
9
A Ritual of Incubation
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I went to sleep last night wondering what on God’s green earth I am going to blog about today, and woke up with ideas for three niche sites. One is web design related and may not be practical, but is worth looking at for several reasons. One has to do with literature and would [...]
Jan
8
There’s nothing like a search for meaning to plump up one’s to-do list. I committed to making 100 posts in 100 days, as I feel out the values behind how I want to brand this site. Four posts in and my to-do list is about a mile long. The basic run down on [...]
Jan
6
People are what makes the Internet sing. People. Not search engines, not spiders, not even money, and especially not infomercials that promise easy money from “free” Internet businesses that rake in the cash and run themselves without personal attention.
Underneath the tech and the design, or the lack of it, [...]
Jan
5
Identity Groundwork
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Today I am making a commitment to 100 posts in 100 days. I’ll be using those 100 posts to explore how my personality and my values can be a foundation for my “brand,” as reflected in my blog and what I do on the Internet.
Why?
For the journey. To backtrack, here’s a quote from [...]
Dec
22
Bullet Point Challenge
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Today I’d like to propose a little game of pin the bullet point on the blog.
Each of the lines at left below appeared in one of the lists that are so popular this time of year. Some are from full blown articles with much substance for thought and inspiration. Others are less serious.
If [...]
Dec
12
SEO by TLC
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Real content posted regularly on a blog can get good exposure through feed readers, because in a feed reader the most recent posts move right to the head of the class. Are you a new site that bites badly at the heels of search result 101? That doesn’t matter to RSS readers like [...]
Dec
10
Tips for Nonprofits Meme
Filed Under Blogging, Nonprofits | 4 Comments
I’m starting a round of blog tag in support of nonprofits that have an online presence. The idea is to write up one tip for how nonprofits can benefit from an online presence, and challenge others to do the same. Don’t worry about having the same tip as someone else, as long as [...]
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