If you’ve been blogging for sometime now, you would have tinkered with HTML several times of already. In fact I’ve shown how you can use several HTML tags to make your posts more readable. The bad news is, HTML has a dark side: it has tags and attributes that are not very useful or meaningful […]
Are Link Trains the Chain Letters of the Blogging Age?
November 21, 2024 by
You’ve probably seen several versions of a link train meme going around the blogosphere. Whether it’s supposedly optimized for certain web applications (e.g. Alexa version 1 & version 2, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Bloglines) or requires some other qualifier (viraltags, your name in your domain name, tech sites only, feed URLs, Z-listers only!), this method of sharing […]
Quantcast: Pushing Analytics Further Or Too Far?
November 21, 2024 by
Aside from Performancing’s Pmetrics, one interesting new tool that could help bloggers and web developers in understanding their audience is Quantcast. Quantcast is basically a site that provides the service of snooping into your demographic at a level that has never been even been explored in mainstream blogging. Aside from knowing what browsers your readers […]
Can Blogging Make You Smarter?
November 21, 2024 by
Experts say we write for two main reasons: 1. First, and most obvious, we write to communicate with others. 2. We write for ourselves, to clarify and stimulate our thinking. Most of our writing, even if we are published authors, is for ourselves. It is often difficult for us to hold more than one thought […]
To Snap Or Not To Snap
November 21, 2024 by
Several months ago, someone figured that making small preview windows of outgoing links on your blog was a good idea. At face value, there seems to be some credence to the concept. With such an application, one can easily see what you’re about to visit! That’s a good thing, right? It’s no different from testing […]
