blogging
The traditional blog comment is dead (almost)
I was reading this article on Read Write Web about the fact that the traditional comment system is about to change. In fact, the post is about the new product by the people behind the popular comment system JS-Kit, currently installed on more than 600,000 websites. The new comment system, called Echo, actually aggregates conversations [...]
List posts are popular. Give me analysis.
I’ve never been a huge fan of posts with topics such as “top 15 tools to…”. You know, I’ve found some blogs that successfully made those lists useful, but I feel that the added value is usually very low. Sure they do well in the search engines and are easy to read and share on [...]
Social media and blogging takes time, but that’s fine
Yes, social media takes time. Being on twitter or Facebook and blogging can be quite time consuming and it’s one of the most common complaint from businesses and individuals. I can’t deny the fact that social media is extremely time consuming, but to be honest, that’s totally fine: it’s called natural selection. Time is the [...]
Blogging: sticking to your uniqueness is hard
The world doesn’t want you to be unique. Even though you keep hearing “be yourself” or “be authentic”, the reality is that everything around you is built around the fact that you won’t be unique. The world is built around that concept and also that most people will simply want to follow the latest trends. [...]
So you want to get on that top bloggers list?
There is a trend right now and it’s called lists. In fact, it’s not really a new trend: top lists have always been popular on the web, but they are now getting overly popular in the Internet Marketing/blogging niche. We have all seen a lot of Top 100 or top 500 bloggers lists emerging lately [...]
Will businesses have to deal with personal branding?
Personal branding is going to be huge in a couple of years as everyone is at least very good at one thing and also because it is going to be even easier than today to start a blog, run your own TV show and things like that. This post is going to be more a [...]
What is everybody doing? Do something else
I thought about leaving the body of this article blank and just let the title speak for itself, but I thought it would look like I’m being lazy. I seriously think the title says it all, but let’s elaborate on the subject. Before we go any further, I want to say that this article mostly [...]
Feedburner and faking numbers : the real subscriber count
I am not going to make friends with that one for sure. As most of you know, I published an article last week about how you could artificially inflate or fake your Feedburner subscriber count and strongly advised you not to do it for obvious reasons. Now, do you think I would let you guys [...]
Fear the publish button
I obviously want each and everyone of you to be better bloggers by reading this blog and for that I want you to think twice before pressing that evil publish button. Too many bloggers just press the publish button without even reading the post they just wrote and I think this is a mistake. If [...]