Tag Archives: blogging

Blog Day 2007 - Fun Reads!

Today is Blog Day!
The site suggests that we find 5 blogs we enjoy that are different from our own culture and link to them.
Instead I’d like to link to some blogs I read regularly that are specialized little treats. Not really personal blogs, not focused on business. just fun reads.
Ironic Sans. A very creative guy [...]

Social Network Overdosing

I can’t stand it anymore! I belong to at least 10 social networks, plus a couple email lists and a few forums.

No one has that kind of time. Even this barely employed freelancer/SAHM. Except maybe those lucky few who get paid to bounce around the internet socializing (hiring? Call me, babe!)
Facebook- three strikes, yer out. [...]

All the cool kids are link-baiting

It’s Friday, I’m done thinking for the week, but I felt like plopping up a blog post today, so why not jump in with all the A-Listers, led by The Great Jason Calacanis (this is an example of link-baiting, by the way), and post my own link-baiting rules.
As you may or may not have [...]

Do bloggers need a code of conduct?

Since the now infamous “Kathy Sierra Debacle,” blogger Tim O’Reilly has been pushing for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct. He put an early draft of one up on his blog.
Before I even read it, I scrolled down to see what the commenters had to say. Not surprisingly, there’s not a lot of support there. In [...]

Not quite ad-free

I have some ads in my sidebar. Just the basic Adsense ads, nothing I spent much time setting up. I’ve considered adding more, and it’s likely I will at some point, but I’m having trouble getting past my old ad-free mindset.
I had a family site on Geocities back in the day (I love talking [...]