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Regular as Blog Work
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I have a guilty secret. I’m not proud of it, I hardly even remember when I started doing it, but now I’m hooked.
Sure, I could give up if I wanted to – I just don’t want to. What is it? Failblog.org
It’s a silly website dedicated to videos and photos depicting epic fails of all sorts. Before I check the news headlines, before I check my emails, hell, before I even check on my kids I have to have my daily fix of fail. Read More→
Blog like there’s nobody reading
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You know how the saying goes, dance like there’s no one watching, sing like there’s no one listening. I think the same is true for blogging.
A close friend of mine stared blogging many years ago. She was a pioneer, sharing her innermost thoughts with the world. Oh she got all the feedback about, “why share your diary with strangers?”, “what will your colleagues think?”, “Aren’t you scared of stalkers?” but she took sensible privacy precautions and opened her heart.
In the early days her blogs were a touch guarded and I could tell that she was holding stuff back in case a parent or family member was reading, but as time progressed and her style became more confident she would share more and more intimate details with her readers.
The results were self-evident, as she shared more, her audience became involved. A crisis at home, a fragile relationship with a friend or even a personal health “life-changer” moved from being an abstract concept to something affecting a “virtual friend”.
What had changed was the style, a style that started talking from the heart. Read More→
To Be Or Not To Be? – That Is The Comment
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Image courtesy of King ChimpIf you scroll down the page on most blogs you’ll see them. Sometimes they’re full of acroynms and angry people, sometimes they’re advertising a new grill or some great new porn, and occasionally they have something useful in them. These things are a plague and a blessing to blogs, and choosing whether or not you engage in them will have a big impact on how you and your readers interact with your blog.
There’s a lot of hype about Web 2.0 and the global community. We’re all supposed to be one big happy family, browsing along and celebrating Thanksgiving with style. But there are some unwelcome guests at the table. Some people don’t care about the conversation and just want to sell you stuff.
“Can you pass the gravy?”
“Would you like to save $150 on car insurance?”
“Err… no, you can just pass the gravy thanks.” Read More→