Blogging

Justin on August 30th, 2011

Last week, I blogged about why I’m ruthlessly downsizing my life — a post which, I should note, is now responsible for almost one quarter of my total blog traffic in the past 30 days.  Judging by those numbers, I’m not the only person who needs the occasional wake-up call. But am I tuning mine [...]

Continue reading about Is Your Blog Trying to Tell You Something?

A few weeks ago, my blog imploded.  For whatever reason, my backups weren’t actually backing up, and one day I awoke to a tweet from a reader informing me that none of my posts existed anymore. That’s never good. So I contacted my tech guy, Shawn Smith, who’s been saving my digital ass since 2003 [...]

Continue reading about How My Broken Blog Led to Me Getting Interviewed on the CBC

Justin on July 5th, 2011

How many times have you clicked on what seemed like the perfect blog headline, only to land on a blog post or news article that wasn’t worth the time it took to depress your mouse button?  As a blog reader, it’s enough to make you wary of any too-good-to-be-true blog headline, and with good reason. [...]

Continue reading about Hey You: Stop Wasting Good Blog Titles

I read a lot of articles about the best times to tweet, blog, etc., because — like you — I want to make sure that the content I create is seen by as many people as possible.  Unfortunately, most of this advice is minimally useful at best, because the data is vague and the methods [...]

Continue reading about A Reminder That All How-To-Blog Wisdom Is Fallible

As I tinker with and reinvent everything about my online life — my career, my finances, my services, my brand new newsletter (which you’ve signed up for, yes?) — it occurs to me that there may be a disconnect between me, the blogger, and you, the audience.  Maybe there’s a tiny gap, or maybe that [...]

Continue reading about Who Am I? You Tell Me: My Annual Blog Feedback Survey