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Defining what makes a blog different (a.k.a. my conversation with a real, live business owner)

After reading Peter’s posts today “The difference between a web site and a blog” and his subsequent correction, “I goofed,” I feel compelled to riff a bit and share a story about a face-to-face interview I had with a local attorney and business owner on the same subject: “What makes a blog different?”

For some time now I’ve felt that even those positioning themselves as blog consultants/experts are still feeling their way around figuring all this stuff out. How to define it, how to measure it, how to sell it.

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It is hard to define something personal. I mean, everybody know that a good alimentation(can I say that in English? I do not find the good term ) and exercise make you feel much more better. However, how would you explain it? It is really, really hard. The only way is to experiment it, change your alimentation habits and start doing sport every 3 days, then you will know what i mean.

It is the same for blogging. Blogging is personal, it’s a way to express you and get feedback from other peoples. You can’t fully know what it will bring to you until you start it and that you discover the way you will blog.

Stickiness

One thing all bloggers and webmasters want is return visitors. Many of us watch the stats and monitor this critical measurement of web success�if you come back time and time again, you must like me. If you like me and return enough you’ll finally heed my call to action – make a purchase, register, click on an advertiser, etc. Stickiness makes a blog and return visitors are paramount to ecommerce success - repeat buyers are a critical component to revenue growth.

How best do you get people back to your site time-after-time?

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As other readers said: Content. However, I will also add feeds. It’s the easiest way for your readers to get in touch with the news things you post on your website. Remember, feeds can containt anything� not just messages.

Be A More Productive Blogger

People often ask me how I’m able to keep my sites moving forward and updated with (hopefully) good content as often as I do. I’ve actually talked about this several times over at my “flagship” site, Asterisk and I’m thinking about a book/site dedicated to the idea of successful content creation.

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First of all, felicitation for this great post. Everything is here and it was a real pleasure to read.

You asked for new tips and tricks? There are some things I blogged about some months ago that I hope could be interesting.

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My first trick is to use a Personal Wiki. I use it as my digital idea journal. There is the post that explain what a personal wiki is, which one I use and how I use it:

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The second trick I use is a “Comments Blog”. This is a place where I put all the comments I do one other blogs (like this one). This is a way to check back at the discussion I had; to find new ideas.

Follow the link read more about the concept.

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What do I use as my paper idea journal?
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I hope these tips and tricks will help you being a more productive blogger.

Salutations,

Blogging about Products

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In a sense what Trevor has accidentally found with his post is the power of the long tail and his suggestion isn’t too far from the truth of what a lot of successful bloggers are doing with their posting about products. Take a look at Gizmodo and Engadget as to big examples - both are posting specifically about consumer electronic products - each post on a different one.

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Is this because bloggers and blog-readers are gadget geeks? Personally I like to be aware of the last electronic gadget, they are so fascinating.

However, I think that this phenomenon is due to the current state of search engine algorithms. I’m not sure that the result would be the same in a semantic web infrastructure.

The Lessons of Multiple Blogging

Blessed as I am with the attention span of a gerbil, I tend to pursue new interests all too often.

Blogging has turned out to be the ideal answer to this trait—or the ultimate means of self-destruction, depending on your point of view. Since launching this blog in the summer of 2003, I’ve created at least a couple of dozen others. Some have been short-lived; others have persisted and flourished. All have taught me something about the nature of this medium.

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Sometimes, things are incomprehensible… However, I think that the fact that Mr. Coyne is a columnist in some of the most popular journals in Canada have something to do with his traffic. However, I think he agree with you: http://andrewcoyne.com/2005/05/i-alienate-my-readers-again.php

Blogs would be a great educational tool. The problems is that it take time and patience, things that most students spend elsewhere, or simply do not have.

You said it: it’s a perfect tool for self-education. I’m like you, I first started to blog to learn something. I started my blog 8 months ago to practice my English writing. At first, it was not as enjoyable as I thought but I finally found a great pleasure to build it, write it and converse with my readers. I had a goal: I used Blogs to reach it. 8 months later, I found that my English has really increased despite the fact that all my social interactions here are in French.

By the way, I just subscribed to the feed of your English usage blog, it’s a great idea you had

Does blog design matter?

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In a medium where many argue ‘content is king’ I would argue that its queen is design. This is not just the case in blogging but in many aspects of business. I live in a suburb where there is a local strip of shops. There is a huge variety of stores, cafes, restaurants and offices there but most of them are fairly run down with quite a few old ma and pa stores that probably haven’t changed much in the past 15 - 20 years. But things are changing - the suburb is becoming more popular and gradually new shops and cafes are creeping into the strip of shops.
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Some blogs are pure peace of art. However, does it make it fun to read? I don’t think so. But, a blog well designed (not necessarily graphically) is essential because it could, unconsciously, tell the readers how he is committed to the task. So, if a blog is up-side-down, I’ll check at it 2 secs and go away nonobservant the content… because I’ll not take the time to read it.

In answer to:

FYI, NewsGator Online has explicit support for feeds that require authentication, and you do NOT need to put the credentials in the URL as described here. In fact, you should definitely NOT put credentials into a URL, for the reasons you describe here and others. Just wanted to correct the point about NewsGator, though…since we have explicit support for authenticated feeds.

Thank alot for this comment. My point is not really to target any service. The point is to try say to users: wait, do not do everything without asking question… it’s sure that this new technology is really cool but depending how you use it, you could have some security/privacy problems.

What is your blog reading policy?

YAFLE picked up on something from Common Craft with What’s Your RSS Reading Strategy?. He uses Bloglines and scans about once a day. I’ve been meaning to respond since he posted, but have just written something similar on a local mailing list, so I have a starting point.

I use an aggregator (NewsGator). There is no sense in visiting each website individually to figure out whether they have posted something new, particularly with the number I am reading. This means that if a blog doesn’t have a web feed, it is highly unlikely that I will read it. In fact, there are no blogs today that I read on their website directly.

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Personally I’m using a stand alone software called Omea Reader. I prefer it because I can read my blog while I’m offline. The think I would like is a plugin to synchronize a blogline or newsgator account with it: it would be the best of the two worlds. I posted how I use this feed reader some weeks ago:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/03/05.html#a101

Bloggers vs. Journalists 1-0

Like Americans, even in Italian bloggers are -sometimes- better than journalists.
What happened here two days ago is something incredible:

“In March, U.S. troops in Iraq shot to death Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent that rescued the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. U.S. commission on the incident produced a report which public version was censored for more than one third. Now Italian press is reporting that all confidential information in the report is available to the public, just by copying “hidden” text from the PDF and pasting it in a word processor (Italian). The uncensored report can now be directly downloaded (evil .DOC format, sorry)”

Wonderful

It’s awesome to see how technology is misunderstood. It’s widespread, daily used and not understood. People, specifically in censitive fields, will need to get courses to get somewhat up-to-date with technologies usage.

About anonimity

The first time I opened a blog (may 2003, now closed, always ateleven though), I asked myself: anonimous or not?
I decided to be anonimous, like I’m still doing (no surname or other).
Why am I an anonimous blogger? Why there are so many anonimous bloggers?
Everybody has his motivations. The most frequent could be:
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Great post! I’m like you: real name but not the full one.

Personally it’s a question of adaptation. I never wrote of my whole life. I get my French courses and do as little as I needed.

Many questions rise: Is my work good? Do I want that my surrounding know that I’m writing. Do I want that people, around me, know all the things I think of?

This is an adaptation I decided to make and it’s going well. I started to blog 6 or 7 months ago and I done progress. I said to some of my best friends that I was writing on an “anonymous” web site.

It’s really a question of being discovered.

I don’t fear to associate my full name with all I wrote, because I believe in my ideas and thoughs; it’s… another question.

Months after months I open myself more and more and eventually I’ll probably became a full, non anonymous, blogger.

I’ll take another step in some days, check it out Max

Directing traffic (metablogging post)

Okay, I’m not particularly fond of metablogging, or blogging about blogging. Enough people do it, some even do it well. Regardless, I had an email conversation yesterday about exactly this topic, and I figured the stuff I wrote was worth throwing out there.

Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about. Other people know way more about marketing themselves than I do, but I’ve paid attention to what I’m doing with Slacker Manager and, who knows, it might help someone else.

Assuming you’ve got a reason to blog, then in no particular order, here’s the braindump…

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You don’t know what you are talking about? If I check your feedburner counter I can’t really agree with you. You know what you are doing and you are doing it well (really well).

You only forgot one thing that you mastered: Be yourself when writing. People want to see the guy behind the blogger.

I would also like to suggest a platform for beginners: blogsome.com. It’s a full Wordpress system available for free. I putted my comments blog on their servers and I’m more than satisfied. Wordpress if a professional blog software available for free and blogsome is a server that host Wordpress and give you free accounts.

Rob: trackbacks are a way to say: “Your article is great and I also blogged about this subject, there is the link”. It’s a way to link posts with same subjects. It’s a way to tell to readers of a specific post that you also blogged about this subject. Then, if they are interested in it, they will follow the link and read your post as well.

Thank for this post Brendon; it’s always a pleasure to remember these essential things about blogging,

Are you an IT-empower worker or an old school worker?

Harold has a good post on what knowledge workers want. I’m turning it into a test… see in the table below whether you an IT-empower worker or not… I score 4 out 4 as an IT-empower worker.
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It’s just a little reaction on this assertion:

“My blog is one of my key knowledge management tools.”

Have you ever read this article: http://www.roell.net/publikationen/distributedkm.shtml

It’s one of the best I read about Blogs as Knowledge Management Tool. I think it worth the reading. I personally like it because it’s the article that incited me to blog. Since then, I only discovered the virtues of blogging

Companies check blogs too

Blogging is good for anyone. It’s an ease to use publication platform. Everybody can easily create and maintain their blog. Blogsphere is an environment where people can talk about what they thing, without restrictions. They wrote about what they really think.

This special conversation environment is a gold mine for businesses. Why? Because they can know what their customers really think about their products; in good or in bad. This is possible because bloggers are also customers; not normal ones but customers that talk about what they really think.
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You said: “Thanks for the comments, the recognition, and the support” but you didn’t steal it! I do it because I believe in Omea. I like what you do and how you do it. I just give to Cesar what belong to Cesar

So thank for these words. For them who don’t know, David Booth is the marketing guy at Jet Brains; there is his blog: http://themarketingbooth.blogspot.com/

Why should I comment old posts?

Fred asks what could be the solutions to these problems. I think a solution could be both human and technological change. When a blogger realize that comments are integral part of a post (human change), he will seek for tools to notice the presence of new comments, then web developers community will find a easy-to-use tool to achieve it. What can we do? Talking about it, like I’m doing right now.
I’d like to add some points to Fred’s post.
It’s not easy to face the whole thing, because there are many different kinds of blogs, each one with different peculiarities. There are literary blogs, where the comments could never add something useful to the post, but just feelings, liking or disliking; there are humour blogs, where the commenters will try to seem as funny as the author; there are (millions of) personal intimacy blogs, where the commenters could only express momentary thoughts or advices, and so on.
I’ll exclude these kinds of blogs, because in these cases it’s not important, IMHO, putting comments when the posts get old.
I agree with Fred’s post just with information or knowledge related blogs.
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There are two reasons why bloggers didn’t comment back when you comment their old posts:

1- They are careless of their readers.

2- They don’t know that you have posted a comment. But this is not really a reason because, most if not all blog systems can send you an email of the new comments.

So, we were probably talking about an utopia.

Why should I comment old posts?

Fred asks what could be the solutions to these problems. I think a solution could be both human and technological change. When a blogger realize that comments are integral part of a post (human change), he will seek for tools to notice the presence of new comments, then web developers community will find a easy-to-use tool to achieve it. What can we do? Talking about it, like I’m doing right now.
I’d like to add some points to Fred’s post.
It’s not easy to face the whole thing, because there are many different kinds of blogs, each one with different peculiarities. There are literary blogs, where the comments could never add something useful to the post, but just feelings, liking or disliking; there are humour blogs, where the commenters will try to seem as funny as the author; there are (millions of) personal intimacy blogs, where the commenters could only express momentary thoughts or advices, and so on.
I’ll exclude these kinds of blogs, because in these cases it’s not important, IMHO, putting comments when the posts get old.
I agree with Fred’s post just with information or knowledge related blogs.
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I’ll put some of my thoughts

Feelings of people are information. Possibly not for you, but for some peoples it can be the information they search for. For a survey for example. Everything can be information. Some can be more important then other; everything depends of the context.

The problem with such blogging system is that there are other ways to handle blog’s spam messages. I don’t think that bloc old posts commenting is a good thing considering the fact that there are other systems to prevent comment spamming.

Some posts are information less like: “you done a good job”. But generally you comment on posts to add something to it; your vision of the thing.

You are right for the point 4.

6 -> Sure, but if you have a system to give back life to old posts, then, the old one is not old anymore because he got a new life, a new visibility. It’s a paradox or something like this… its strange when you think about it

The life span of a blog discussion seem to be ephemeral

It seems that there are two problems with blog discussions that use comments:

1. People who start a discussion by commenting a post didn’t seem to check back for new comments on the message.

2. If the post is older than some days, nobody will comment on it.

Some will say that this is normal because blogs are used to publish thoughts of the moment and old thoughts didn’t worth commenting. If they see blogs as this, they are probably right.

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Thank for your additions Max! News paper also have a permalink: it’s their date. There are system availbe to search newspaper archive to find old articles that talked about the first Iraq war for exemple. But as blogs… they are less read the week after their publication. One of the problem in both systems is probably the way search systems works for each of these systems. There are probably too many information available for the search infrastructure we are using these days. So I don’t think that there are a really great diffenrences between the two system; it’s just that the search system for newspaper archives is not free and less easily accessible.

Multi-thinking instead of multi-tasking

Jeffrey Baumgartner of The InnovationTools weblog had a nice idea for managing the maelstrom in your head without it getting in the way of your work. Brainstorming technique - Multi-thinking - from InnovationTools

Whether you multi-task or not, you almost certainly have numerous tasks awaiting your attention at any given time. And it is inevitable that your mind occasionally turns to one task while you are working on another. A multi-tasker would be inclined to switch tasks at this point. I recommend you stick to the task at hand, but keep a notebook - or at least some paper nearby - when performing any tasks. (I recommend having a notebook with you all the time). When the mind turns from the task at hand to another task, simply note down your thoughts in the notebook. Then return to the task at hand.

Good point. Personally, for blogging purposes I wrote all my posts in a Word document and I put it on my desktop. Then I can have between 2 or 5 posts waiting to be finished, edited and published. Then when I have ideas about these future posts I add it quickly to keep my idea going, without thinking about the grammar, formulation and editing. If I didn’t have my laptop with me, I put my thoughs in my little Moleskine pocket diary and add it to my document when I come back home. After, when I publish the article, I change the name of the file and add the date of the publishing and put the document in a specific folder with the post category’s name.

Why do I use a Word document? Simple, because I only have to copy/past it to my Radio Userland software and the parsing will be done automatically in HTML; I’ll have the same editing on my weblog as the one I have in Word.

It’s how I work for by blogging writing. For now it’s do the job.

I also started a “comment blog” to keep track of my writing on other blogs. It does seem really useful to keep track of conversations and eventually I think that it will be a good source of inspiration… I hope so. There is the link to this experience blog: http://fredonsomethingcomments.blogsome.com/

I’ve been fark’d

It’s not as bad as it sounds, actually. Lifehacker picked up my post on body language in the office, and then somebody posted it on fark.com and Metafilter (those guys are harsh). Fark gets a lot of traffic. And it kinda rolled on from there. Slacker Manager hasn’t been slashdotted (yet), but this has got to come close.

The traffic spike is so crazy it’s cartoonish. Here’s the graph for the year. Last month I was pretty stoked to get 15,000 visitors. This month, thanks to fark and friends, it’ll be somewhere over 100,000 visitors. That won’t sustain, of course, but still it’s kinda fun. Lots of good comments in the post, too. There are a couple that are worth appending to the original post, such as the ever-popular Watch Glance, where you not-so-discreetly check the time while someone is talking to you.

It’s awesome to see such think happened. It’s one of the things that fascinate me with the internet: see how the links are made one between another. Sometimes it’s like magic; you can’t really see how and why it happened; the only thing you know is that it happened.

But in your case there is no magic; it’s because you done a good job with this article. Keep going Brend!

In reply to a comment of Todd (not in relation with the original topic)

It’s a test, I don’t know if it will be used by my readers but for my own purposes I like it and it’s useful. It’s much more easiest to follow conversations I posted in. A click and I see if anyone else added something.

I also think that this will be really helpful to find stuff I know I wrote about.

It’s a test. I’ll only know in the future if it will worth the time (not too great) I put in.

What do you expect?

I don’t know how to automate “voting” of the Business Thoughts’ posts yet, but it got me thinking…

If you don’t mind, please email me or leave a comment to these few questions:

1) What do you expect from my blog?
2) What post really got your attention?
3) Why did you take the time to subscribe and return to Business Thoughts?
4) Have you told anyone else to subscribe or “go to” my blog?

I’ve been really busy with work and life, so my usual (if there is such a thing) posts have been slim this week.

Thank you for reading Business Thoughts and I appreciate your feedback!

They are all questions bloggers are asking to themselves. The problem is that it’s hard to answer to them. Personally I can be interested in any posts you publish. I’m not a business manager; I study and I work in the IT. Eventually business management tricks will be helpful; no doubts about it. But I’m not reading your lbog specifically for this. The first thing why I read your blog is because You are writing it. I appreciate what you write, how you write it, how you converse with your readers, your ideas, etc. I’m reading you for you, not essentially for what you are writing about. It can seem a paradox, but it’s the only way I can answer to such a question

Why should I edit your comments?

Many trackback and comments management systems allow to edit comments, not just the blog owners’, all comments.
Personally, I never edited someone else’sm comment, neither mine, and no one has never did this to me.
I don’t agree with this feature. A blog author should have just two chances: leaving the comment where it is, or deleting it.
What should you think if someone should ever edit your words, for some reason? It could be revenge, or such stupid amusement, or whatsoever. Would you be happy? I don’t think so.

I agree with you max. This feature should not be present in blogging softwares. But on another hand, it can be essential in some situations. But personally, if I see that one of my comment was changed than I’ll simple unsubscribe to this feed.

It’s what is really interesting with feed technology: I can unsubscribe to scrappy blogs or information sources.

Inaugural blah-blah blog

Scoble’s answer to this post

Welcome to the anti-blog, yet another blog to add to the incessant and largely meaningless noise level that is blogging on the Web.

This is only a test. Had this been an actual blog, you would have been notified where to tune for vetted news and information (in other words, real journalism).

Yes, I am the same, infamous Rich Levin who had the audacity to tell the King of Bloggers, Robert Scoble (http://tinyurl.com/e2d2), that blogging is a fad, way back when in 2001, when Scoble was among the anointed few to discover and evangelize blogging and bloggers. One day they’ll hang my quote up beside Bill Gates’ alleged statement that “640k ought to be enough for anybody.”
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Blogging = Web logging = Logging your writing, thoughts, etc, on a support called web. This was the first purpose of the Internet saw by the academics many years ago.

Personally I use it as a way to log my thoughts and share them with others. I’m also expecting comments by my readers to improve these thoughts with their knowledge.

What blogs give me (I’m talking of the support) is an easy way to do all these things.

Is that fad? Personally i don’t think so.

My new weblog domain name.

This is a new URL for my Business Thoughts blog. The main blog URL still resides at www.ktoddstorch.com, but as I continue to look to the future of the blog, I wanted to pick up this URL (fyi, someone already had businessthoughts.com and its being parked…ugh!).

This doesn’t mean anything to you on how you access the blog or any of the features. I just have it pointing to the main URL, but I believe www.businessthoughtsblog.com will be a better branding opportunity for the future.

Excellent choice Todd.

Then, your non actual readers will exactly know what the blog is about; without reading a single line. The most important will be when peoples will perform searches on search engine: just the domain name will incite them to click on your site’s link.

What are your favorite group blogs?

What are your favorite group blogs?
What are your favorite group blogs? I notice that I read weblogs.asp.net a lot lately. It’s one of the only sites I visit in the browser anymore, although reading it at the end of the day in my news aggregator is also satisfying (and usually more complete since thousands of people post to this one blog). But, a lot of what I link to comes through that blog. It mixes in all the Microsoft employee blogs with a few others.

I also read the Sun Microsystems’ employee blogs and Slashdot and Boing Boing sometimes during the day just to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. By visiting just four sites, along with Memeorandum, you get probably 80% of the news. Add in my link blog and you have a pretty nice set of information sources.

The best group blog I read? Everything depend of your interests

Personally I’m regularly reading Many-2-Many where the mosts influential social software thinkers wrote:

- Clay Shirky
- Liz Lawley
- Sébastien Paquet
- David Weinberger
- Danah Boyd

it’s a most read for anyone interested in social software development.

Linking Strategies

Dr. Ralph Wilson, better known to the world as “Dr. E-Biz” makes a great point in his latest newsletter.

Everyone wants a better ranking in Google and Yahoo, and some Web sites will link to anybody, including the notorious link farms, just to increase their “link popularity,” and thus their ranking with the search engines. “I’m convinced that Internet marketers must exercise restraint in linking,” Wilson says.
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It’s also part of blog etiquette. You need to support your posts’ background with good related links. It’s a way to add information to your message, it’s a way to build relationship with other bloggers(in the case of a blog), and it’s a way to upgrade your search engine ranking.

I personally think that more and more, the biggest sites will be them with good relationship with their peers. It’s how they will bring people to their web site, by being refereed by many, independent web sites. Why will this append? Because they will have a good relationship with them.

What’s a Blog?

Despite the post just below, Pew Internet & American Life Project’s Report on the Blogosphere finds that 62% of American Internet users still don’t know what a blog is.

Doesn’t seem to be much better here in Canada. Last month I talked about blogging to the West Vancouver Seniors Computer Club, a very sizable crowd of 70 or 80. Many of them asked me before I started: “What’s a blog?”

I should have told them that blogs are like Canada itself. Everyone’s vaguely aware of us, and most of our foreign visitors enjoy their stay here, but those who don’t visit have no idea what we’re about.

Blogs are new. They started to emerge some years ago. They have been pro-pulsed since 6 months because companies like Microsoft started in this way; blog is now an, if I remember right my news, an approved English word. So, in the next years, I think, that most Internet users will know what is a blog and what is blogging. But it’s possible that every body will have their own definition and nobody will agree on what is really a blog.

If it become the case, I don’t think that this will be really a problem. It will just be a sign of good health and the situation will help us to reinforce the concept of blogs.

So…. time will do his job and blogs will eventually be know by all Internet users… I hope so.

Feed Reader Callbacks

Here’s an update on my feed reader auditions [RSS News Reader Auditions]. I just uninstalled You Subscribe: RSS and RSS Popper, which leaves me with NewsGator and intraVnews.

You Subscribe: RSS looks good and worked fairly well, but it caused Outlook to crash sometimes on exit. I’ll probably consider it again when it goes from public preview to a shipping product.

I didn’t get to evaluate RSS Popper. As soon as Outlook started, RSS Popper would crash.

intraVnews is looking very promising!

Personally I use Omea reader since 5 months and it works really well. This is a professional product with a free license (available until 31 march).

What I like in Omea? The look he have, the way you can organize the information through views, the options you have to visualize posts. It’s with Omea I have the best control organization for an optimal visualization of posts on my 15″ laptop screen. Also, it never crashed or had database corruption.

So you have nothing to lose by testing it

Dancing with dogs: PayPal

I am leaving the Paypal link in my sidebar permanently now. I really wish and hope my commenters will not abandon me and will just start commenting on this post instead of the older one. If you think you are going to intimidate me into removing it, you are absolutely mistaken. Bring it on, people!

It’s your decision not ours. Personally I didn’t care. You are doing a great job with this blog. You take time to posts about things that are importants at your eyes. You get this time and share it with us. This is very generous from you and I think it’s legitimate to put this button in your sidebar.

It’s less invasive then other type of publicity. If it’s a way to get this blog online (and any other blogs on the blogsphere) then leave it as long as the blog is open.

Take care and continue your great job.

My first Podcast interview: The Future of Podcasting Revisited

I met Tom Parish from 4webresults after seeing that he would be speaking on a SXSW panel on The Future of Podcasting. Tom interviewed me to get some takeaways from The Future of Podcasting guest blogging feature featured here on Business Thoughts.

Hello Todd!

It was a great interview! I need to confess, it was my first real podcast experience, I’m really pleased by it. I was impressed by qualitity of it.

Good job!

Create Blog Success - Blog Traffic Secrets Revealed

Let’s talk about how to create blog traffic success. This is a questions I’m ask about all the time and with good reason. Your success rises and falls on traffic to your blog. No online business survives without traffic that buys.

Back in January I published an article entitled Social Marketing Optimization. That article gives some background for what I’m writing here and I believe it is a very important aspect of blogging to keep in mind if you are to create blog success […]

Really nice article Mr. Pierce.

I would just add my two penny: Comment. Comment is probably the best socializing tool you have. Comment on other people blog, put your two penny to the conversation. It’s always appreciated by the blogger and he will usually check who you are, by checking your blog. If he like it, he will feed it and eventually link back to your blog. It’s a part of the job, and at my sense, the beautifulest. As Mr. Pierce said: there is no magic, only work!

Have a good blogging day!