I was recently tagged by ilkeryoldas to support an initiative by a group of bloggers to request that adult webmasters require password protection on their websites in order to access the adult material. Currently, adult webmasters are required to by law to display a plain page with the warning that the content of their website [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 25, 2007
How To Blog: A Beginner’s Guide Part II
This is part two of a two part series
Start at Part I
Con’t from Getting Visitors
There are many ways to gain visitors to your blog but the most effective one, in my opinion, is to get involved in the blogosphere. It’s like showing up at a party where no one knows you. A few people may [...]
February 22, 2007
How to Blog: A Beginner’s Guide
This is part one of a two part series.
First and foremost I want to put out there that there is no right or wrong way to blog. Many people are out there making good money perpetuating this myth when, in fact, some of the most successful blogs in the blogosphere become that way because the [...]
February 21, 2007
The Dream Challenge
I got an email from Beth, today, about the newest graphic challenge going on over at her site. It goes a little something like this:
1. Pick a dream you had. If you can’t remember your dream just make something dreamlike up.
2. The canvas size is 500 by 200
3. You can only use pastels, black and [...]
February 20, 2007
Product Review: Feedburner
RSS or Real Simple Syndication is a great way to allow your readers to stay updated with the happenings of your website or blog. Even at the most basic level it’s a pretty impressive service. Your visitor plugs your feed into their favorite aggregator and presto zesto they’re instantly updated whenever you post.
Feedburner is a [...]
February 18, 2007
Free Theme: Goth Love
This template was designed for WordPress 2.1. It is a two column fixed width theme with the sidebar on the right hand side. The theme consists mostly of two large graphics, the header and the footer and two small graphics, the cross next to the title and the graphics for the blockquote. Everything else is [...]
February 16, 2007
Creating Quality Content
The number one question I see raised in blog forums is “How do I get people to visit my blogs?” There are lots of things you can do to drive traffic to your site but, really, it’s not getting people to your party that’s a problem. It’s keeping them there. All the traffic generating tips [...]
February 16, 2007
The Search for Blogspiration
Many people begin to blog without any idea as to what they want to talk about and that’s alright. What is it that they say about spontaneity being the spice of life. Or was that variety? Eh, one of those.
Anyway, when that first rush of creativity wears off, bloggers often find themselves abandoned by their [...]
February 16, 2007
Building Your Fanbase
Very few people go through life hoping no one will notice them. This is especially true if you have been bitten by the blogging bug and spent the last few month, weeks or even days churning out post after post of clever repartee. But in order to build the fan base you secretly crave, you [...]
February 13, 2007
What You Need to Know About Defamation
Currently there are over 30 million blogs on the internet and thousands more being created each week. Assuming ownership of one blog per person, that’s a minimum of 30 million people slinging around their personal opinions on all that exists under the sun. This is a good thing. The free exchange of thoughts and ideas [...]
