Category: User Experience
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There must be five ways to quit your day job
Five tips on How to make money from your blog: Sell advertising Help sell others’ products Solicit contributions Market your services Deepen your existing customer relationships I’s mostly a Tip 4 kind of guy with a bit of Tip 5 mixed in. Unless you count the incredibly lucrative Google ads, that is. Croesus ain’t in…
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Tim Bray counters the 'fired for blogging' hype
In It’s Not Dangerous, Tim Bray extols the career benefits of blogging, primarily as a way to stay informed, establish expertise, and get noticed. p.s.: His curly quotes that are being rendered as (a-with-circumflex, Euro symbol, trademark TM)? in my browser? Whose fault is that?
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Hugh Macleod calls for the end of metablogging
In gapingvoid: the death of metablogging, makes the usual points against navelgazing, rendering this weblog obsolete. I gather that metametablogging is still cool, though?
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Surrender to the Flow
Frank Paynter writes: I’m sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says: Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the…
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Clickable Culture reads the fine print
Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture looks closely at the terms of service for the bloggers being paid to blog about / endorse Marqui’s product ( – Deconstructing Marqui’s Adverblogging Antics) and doesn’t like what he sees: Today I discovered that the situation is actually worse than I originally thought.