The ability of Making Readers Famous
July 22, 2008
The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it’s driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers are sending.
Just now I scanned through today’s emails and here’s some of the comments (I’ll keep them an…
Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon
July 22, 2008
Wow - when I posted an invitation that dawn for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun.
It’s been nearly 9 hours since the post went live and by 280 readers have participated and I’m getting emails and tweets from citizens saying that they have had more humans follow/befriend them to…
AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.
July 21, 2008
Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following e mail outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements’ to the Google ad system.
These changes largely revolve around new features that they’ve added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control).
One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner’ (curren…
Welcome to the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In
July 21, 2008
Image by Mandala
Today I want to try something a little different and want to invite you to share your social media profiles with us.
Are you active on social media sites?
Do you want to find more friends and followers?
Do you want to find other bloggers to follow and network with?
whether so - you’re not alone and I want to give you an opportunity to do just that.
Today I want to do …
Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?
July 21, 2008
Last week in my post exploring how to produce blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.
My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore that a little further:
When you put a moment on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. that is useful to readers wanting to manufa…
Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full day as a Blogger
July 21, 2008
I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full instance with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs (Mac Rumors) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention.
“Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million society and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, m…
Two Equally Qualified humans Walk Into an Opportunity…
July 20, 2008
and only one of them comes out successful.
This phenomenon isn’t new. From job interviews, to getting a promotion at work, to making money on the World Wide Web. What is it that causes some citizens to succeed and others to fail? I’ve been busy lately with quite a bit of travel but I did have a few minutes to read the New York Times last week and came across this article which I bookm…
Amazon S3 Crash Hampers Web 2.0 Sites
July 20, 2008
A crash of Amazon.com’s heavily used Amazon S3 storage service has caused problems for many Web 2.0 sites that rely on the service. You can find a status page for Amazon’s service here.
Here are a few of the outages and problems.
Plurk, Twitter and Kwippy are having problems showing images loaded with Amazon A3. It sounds minor but it just isn’t as much fun microblogging without the avatars.
Pos…
Two More Microblogging Sites: Identi.ca and Kwippy
July 20, 2008
The number of microblogging worlds to visit continues to climb. You can add them to growing number existing microblogging tools like Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, Jaiku and Pownce. Twitter - the most popular of these types of tools - has been functioning better lately but that improvement has come at the expense of the Twitter API. The latest microblogging entries are Identi.ca and Kwippy.
Identi….
Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
July 20, 2008
Today I want to talk a little about bloggers working together - to talk about the importance of it and to reflect upon whether the blogosphere has become a less relational place.
“After years of being in an offline business I’ve recently decided to start an online business that will include a blog. However as I research the topic I notice something about bloggers and how they relate…