Random Articles

• Client Blogging: Joanne Henry Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been setting up a blog for Joanne Henry co-founder of the Henry Schafer Partners marketing. When I sat down to walk her through WordPress, she already had 3 posts ready to go. She’s been steady since. Which is great, her writing style is perfect for blogging - informal, local,
• On a Blog, the Author is the Advertisement It’s not a question of making money via an online publication (aka “blog”, “podcast”) directly or indirectly. All money-making via distributing words, audio, or video is indirect. All of it. Newspapers, magazine, radio, and television all make money indirectly - selling advertising space. Blog publishers like Doc Searls, Dave Winer, Kathy Sierra, Hugh MacLeod, Chuck
• How long does it take to build a website? A year or so ago, I had this ‘Website-in-a-Weekend’ idea. Walk a group of people from nothing to a nice looking, easy-to-update, custom website in a weekend using WordPress. Something like this; Day 1: Install WordPress (t d), define categories, pages, generally get everything in place. Add some images and text. Day 2: Edit the layout and CSS.
• Until Audio Hijack Pro for Video, Videoblogging Won’t Take Off Before I made my first videoblog, I assumed there were 2 challenges video-blogging had to overcome before it could be as be as hot as podcasting File size for video are a magnitude larger than audio, so bandwidth is that much more precious. Without something like BitTorrent, each additional download is money out of the producer’s
• The Bottomless Feed and the Need for Now Context “I’ve punted on trying to catch up on 19,000+ updated posts in Bloglines. I don’t have the time, or interest, in trying to sift through them all. I picked out a few blogs from a few categories that I’m absolutely interested in and skimmed through them and then marked all as read.” - Ed Costello I