Blogging Discussion: How Often Should You Post?

January 31st, 2008

Blogging

No matter how much you read about blogging, there are some things that can only be learned from experience.  One of these things that seems to vary by niche is how often you need to post to retain an audience.
In my experience, content is always king and if your content is good enough, people will [...]

Best of: Wikipedia Greasemonkey Scripts

January 30th, 2008

Web Browsers

Unless you’ve been living a very sheltered life offline over the past five years, you’ve probably heard of and even visited Wikipedia at some point. 
Wikipedia is an online open source reference site that anyone can edit.  While the existance of such a site requires some trust and has a few problems, overall the information you get off [...]

How To: Finding Success With Blogging

January 30th, 2008

Blogging

It seems to me that most people start out blogging with the idea of getting rich quickly.  Heck, if you are familiar with the make money online niche, you can see that an entire niche has been thriving because of this mindset. 
What I’ve learned in my two years of blogging is that set obtainable goals and [...]

Looking Back Over The Internet in 1996

January 29th, 2008

Technology

Oh my, look how far we’ve come!   Back in 1996 I was a junior in high school and about the only time I spent online was in America Online chat rooms or running my Wu Tang Clan eClub.  I also remember trying to find ways to download games for my Texas Instrument calculator.  We all [...]

Expand Your Blog’s Reach By Increasing User Interaction

January 28th, 2008

Blogging

When I made my recent domain change, one of the big reasons I cited was the brandability that could be gained with using a “better” domain name.   Using a personal domain not only makes the domain/website difficult to sell, but it also limits the things you can do with it.  
In the past I’ve had a [...]

Garry Conn Releases Digg Theme

January 27th, 2008

Miscellaneous

Whether you have little to no HTML knowledge, or whether you consider yourself a web designer, one of the best things you can do is to create a WordPress theme and release it to the WordPress community.   I’ve seen simple themes getting as much use as premium or advanced themes, and this is often because [...]