I thought I might break in my new “Ramblings” category by posting a short rambling article.Shortly after arriving at work today I took a walk over to the local coffee and bagel shop. I do not often drink coffee as it works like Ex-Lax in my body! I do enjoy a nice hot beverage on…
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Spotplex is off to a bumpy start
A few days ago I added the Spotplex tracking image into my sidebar and sat back to watch what would happen.On Saturday my blog was in the Top Ten listing of most heavily visited blogs and my articles were all being tracked. Then something went wrong.At some point between March 4th and March 5th all…
What’s wrong with MyBlogLog?
Like many bloggers today I have been running the MyBlogLog widget in my sidebar. Have been running…Over the weekend I noticed that the widget had stopped appearing!I still have the code in my sidebar and I see that the site tracking is still working yet, it no longer shows up in my blog or any…
Know your templates
A few days ago I went to check on my Google Analytics data for the blog. I’ve been Dugg, Netscaped and Farked recently so I thought I might see just how much data accumulated from these traffic spikes. I was in for a shock!It was not the sort of shock you might expect… There was…
Say hello to our new addition
We have just added a new writer to the blog; Amazing Gaze.Amazing Gaze is a friend of mine and she will be writing articles for the blog under such far reaching categories as career consulting, parenting and general ramblings.I expect her first post to be up in a few days.
The fringe benefits of HMTK
There are some fringe benefits to being a part of the HMTK community. Some are more tangible than others but, they are all good.There are several ways to become a member of my fast growing community. One of the easiest ways is to leave comments on the blog. If you look to the right, over…
501st Legion Inducts Kevin Smith as “friend”
501st Legion’s Connecticut Garrison made an appearance at the NYC Comic Con.This event was a lot of fun. Many comic book artists, celebrities, and members of the 501st Legion attended this massive event.One of the highlights of this event was being part of the induction ceremony of Kevin Smith into the 501st Legion as a…
Engadget, the latest victim of globalization
For a long time now Engadget has held the top spot at Technorati. With over 26K blogs linking to them and the second place slot has been held by BoinBoing with just under 20K blog links. You would think their position would be safe. Not so! hexuncom.blog.hexun.com has just been added to Technorati and with…
I’m real popular in Slovenia
With the rise in on line advertising and sites such as Pay-Per-Post and ReviewMe a lot of weight is being given to Alexa rankings. The problem is that even Alexa warns it’s users that it’s rankings are not very accurate as they only count people who use their toolbar.What’s a web entrepreneur to do?Thankfully Alexa…
Speed Linking for March 2, 2007
It is time once again for my Friday Speed Linking Post!In case you might be wondering where I find these links I’ll be brief and let you know that the first place I look is on blogs that are:1) In my MyBlogLog Community2) Belong to people who comment on this blog3) Things I find over…
Ask Steve: How do I increase my blog’s readership?
I get asked this question a lot, “Hey Steve, I’m a new blogger and I just can’t seem to get any traction. How do you get readers to come to your blog? I’m not looking for thousands of hits a day but I would like more than 10!”Getting people to come to your blog is…
Who is getting a free game?
Right after I converted my blog from Serendipity to WordPress I announced a top commentator contest. The time has now come to announce the winner!If you look over to the right you will see that the winner (with 16 comments posted at 12:01 PM EST on Feb 28, 2007) is Ms. Q!If Ms. Q would…