Blogging

The user-friendliness of blogging software has made it easy for anyone who would like to communicate with the world to do so. That explains a large part of the millions and millions of blogs that now populate the blogosphere. Others who see the moneymaking potential of blogging by adding advertisements to their blogs add to the flood. Given this cacophony, how does anyone with a serious view to express ensure that it stands above the crowd?

Chris Lanier posts about two cool new Media Center apps.

Kevin Burton released a new TailRank. Last week I asked the audience at ConvergeSouth how many people even knew about TechMeme. Very few hands went up.

Last time someone tried this it was a disaster, but Wired News has boldly put an article about wikis into a Socialtext wiki for anyone to be a Wired editor:

Queries for “homes for sale” had started to drop over a month before the National Association of Realtors disclosed their existing home sales figures for July.

An organizational structure that may work very well for your internal needs may not work at all well for your customers. Here’s why.

Writing a blog post is not really that different to writing any other type of copy, especially when it comes to the headline of a post.

Subpoenas for more information from the major music labels are arriving from the Department of Justice, with industry sources claiming DOJ has opened a new investigation into possible industry collusion on prices.

It’s interesting to watch the reactions to the Wall Street Journal article about how messed up Windows development processes were.

About a year ago I wrote an article titled, Syndicating Your Web Site’s Content with RSS.

A great headline can be the difference between having your free reprint article published once (on your own website…) and having it published hundreds, if not thousands, of times all over the Internet.

I want to tell you how I go about writing headlines. I like to keep a swap files of headlines around for future use. And how I go about doing it goes something like this…

Normally, Jim Hill’s predicament wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. But since his adversary is The Walt Disney Company-a business hamstrung by years of negative publicity…