Blogging
Whether you blog for fun or profit, you may want to rethink your motives before your elected officials start doing your thinking for you. According to the Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia bloggers are being charged a $300 business license tax, regardless of whether or not their blogs are profitable. This means even Philadelphia’s casual blogs [...]
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A few months ago, I decided to try an experiment with this blog. From May through July, instead of posting daily, I would only post once per week. That way, rather than scrambling to say something relevant 5 times a week, I could invest my time in one good, solid post. Here’s what I learned [...]
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Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb. We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of media, and To learn how [...]
On Sunday nights, Mack Collier runs a Twitter-based group chat called #blogchat, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about blogging while hobnobbing with their peers. But, based on the defensive reaction to some of my comments from several of the #blogchat participants, I’ve realized that #blogchat is strictly a place [...]
Ego, Cynicism and Bad Reviews: What I Learned by Peeking at My Bounce Rates
Last week, I shared what I learned by blogging weekly instead of daily. Judging by the high volume of traffic, retweets and comments that post generated, people are very interested in what makes someone else’s blog tick. One comment that caught my eye was from Virginia Nussey, who said: I shared your findings with my [...]
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