Category: Weblog Concepts

  • Tony Pierce's 'How to Blog'

    Tony, whom I finally got a chance to meet at SXSW this year (and who’s as funny and personable in person as his online presence would imply) published this list of advices on blogging in his tonypierce.com busblog last year. He’s now got a book out with the same title from Café Press and I’ve…

  • Metaspam

    I don’t know how well the Web Spam Squashing Summit went, but Dave Sifry’s blog post announcing it is currently overrun with spam comments.

  • Blogging as a public relations skill

    B.L. Ochman’s tips on How To Write Killer Blog Posts are geared toward’s PR professionals but are general enough to apply across the board to blogging. In fact, isn’t all blogging a form of public relations? Don’t we all need to write pithy headlines and grabby leads if we want the public to notice and…

  • Post early and often

    Duncan Riley from the Blog Herald has it write. Some the best ways to drive up blog traffic are to post in (or before) the morning (for your main audience) and post frequently.

  • Pogue welcomes advice

    David Pogue welcomes suggestions about how to improve his new weblog.

  • Disclosing blog sponsors

    Now that Marc Canter is spearheading a kind of transparent blog-payola system for compensating bloggers, the issue of full disclosure of one’s sponsors and or influences seems all the more important. For example, here is the disclosure about the ZeroDegrees sponsorship of the new Operating Manual for Social Tools weblog: About The Project: ZeroDegrees has…