A short time ago my wife started to read blogs. She had no interest in reading mine at the time so I asked what blogs she was reading. I made a note of the blogs and promptly forgot about them.Over time she began sending me email snippets from some of these blogs and the best…
Tag: Blogging
Do Bloggers Need a Union?
This week I have been noticing an uptick in articles proclaiming that bloggers need a union. Some of the reasons cited have had to do with banding together to get health insurance or normalizing of advertising rates. Others have poo pooed the idea saying that to unionize the bloggers would remove the creative spirit behind…
A Guest Blogger on Guest Blogging
When people talk about marketing a blog or driving traffic to a site, most of the conversation revolves around that site. However, one great method of gaining exposure and driving new traffic to your site doesn’t have anything to do with your site at all: Guest Blogging. Unfortunately, the topic remains one of the less…
Where is Steve?
Where have I have been? I’ve been right here but I have also been very busy.Next week I will also be busy at the Clatter Valley Day Camp. It is an annual Girl Scout day camp event. I’m the tech guy this year which means I had to put up a forward facing site and…
A new blog is born: ScamStocks
I’ve been writing articles on investing and stock scams for a while on here but, I think it is time they got their own blog. Over the next few days I will be moving (and writing redirects) for all of the investing articles I have on here. They will all be moving to Scam Stocks.Why…
Change your domain the right way
Some people, for whatever reason, decide to change their domain name. Most often this occurs when a blogger who uses some blogging system that offers a subdomain decides to get their own domain name. Other times it happens when a better domain name becomes available and the owner decides to move.Changing domain names can be…
Welcome to the new server
The big ordeal is over. I have defeated the last bug and put the blog onto the new server!The last problem I had to overcome involved moving to a newer version of mySQL that was causing problems with the character set used in the old database. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
Technorati can’t count?
It has recently come to my attention that the blog tracking site Technorati is suffering with a math problem. Yes, the site that tracks millions of blogs (and rates them by popularity) does not understand that their Top 100 list should be just that, a top 100 list. Instead their Top 100 list appears to…
How To: Sell a blog for far more than it is worth
I read a lot of blogs, a lot. One of the blogs I used to consider a daily read was recently sold… for $20,000! That’s a lot of money for a blog that has not been around for very long.The blog in question is careerramblings.com. According to the Whois database the site was first registered/created…
Everything is all right now
The last of my new server problems has been fixed. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that the last problem involved a port being closed. I made the fatal mistake of assuming that this particular port would be open by default.So yes, everything is now alright in the world with me.The first site to be…
How I got into blogging
Eric asked me in the comments of The face behind the blog how I got into blogging. He is interested in blogging himself and is a bit of a writer.One of the great things about blogging is that it is super easy to get started. There are so many free blogging platforms out there that…
The face behind the blog
Derek Wong of Going The Wong Way tagged me with the Face Behind The Blog tag began by David Airey.Yeah, I copied that first line from my associate blogger Ms. Q but she didn’t give me a choice. She summed it up so well I knew I could not write a better opening.A lot of…