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You Are Never Alone as a Blogger
I had a discussion last night with a long-time prominent blogger. During our conversation, we naturally strayed towards writing and community building, topics with which we are both very familiar. This is someone who puts out extremely high-quality content on a daily basis. He is constantly pushing the limits, drawing in new people with his [...]
Are Journalists Biased?
Everyone who is anyone in the blogosphere has read the stories about Mike Arrington and his investment policy update. We’ve read hundreds of offshoot posts and Tweets, all of which point fingers and take sides. You’ve seen the articles proclaiming that the author would never, EVER! allow themselves to be compromised or biased in any [...]
Rick Calvert from Blog World Discusses Blogging
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Rick Calvert, CEO and Co-founder of Blog World and New Media Expo, was on hand at CES 2011 talking about blogging with me in the Reese’s booth. We briefly talk about the history of blogging, discuss the nuances of naming within [...]
Best Free Blogging Platform
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone asked recently which free blogging platform is the “best” one to get started with. This question is pretty impossible to answer. There are many decent free blog providers out there. As with anything, you have to research what they offer [...]
How To Get Famous on YouTube
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This isn’t a joke. If you’re a geek who can handle yourself well on camera, and you don’t need a ton of hand-holding to get things done quickly, we should definitely talk. I’ve helped boost the standing of a few YouTubers [...]
Bloggers are Getting Younger Every Day
The newest member of our Lockergnome blog community happens to be young Froyoca. This site is invite-only, and it’s more than awesome to see someone so young have the skills needed to write as well as he does. You can check out his blog weekly to find his thoughts on the latest news in technology [...]
Social Media SEO
During my time in Texas at OpenCa.mp this past weekend, I reconnected with an old friend. Lee Odden used to write about Marketing on Lockergnome back in the day, and it’s great to see all of the things he has accomplished since that time. Not only did both of us go skydiving with the Army [...]
Write a WHAT?!
I spend probably 80% of my working time writing things. I communicate with people across social networks. I compose missives to be sent to various people. I occasionally author books and articles. I draft items to send to potential sponsors. I dash off the quick email or hundred. The one thing I do not do [...]
Posterous Takes Aim at WordPress
With Twitter taking over so much of our time these days, many of us pay less attention to our “traditional” blogs. They’re cumbersome, take more work to manage – not to mention more time. Posterous recognizes this, and is working hard to make things easier. They want you to blog – and they’re willing to [...]
Create Your Own WordPress Themes
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you have a blog, you have a theme. Chances are, you downloaded a theme off the web somewhere. It’s okay that you don’t know how to code your own customized theme from scratch! Very few people are capable of doing [...]
What Role Do Blogs Play in Your Life?
Even if you’re not a blogger yourself, chances are you read a few of them. It seems like everyone is blogging these days, including my mom on occasion (so ok, maybe not recently). Heck, even when you aren’t intending to read a blog, you may end up doing so after following a link from a [...]
To Twitter or to Fritter – That is the Question
During my travels around our community today, I came across an interesting post on Lockergnome. The author discusses how he signed up for Twitter in order to attempt to figure out the hype. At one point, he states that: By composing short, 140-character messages, you can share with the world that you are standing in [...]
Do Bloggers Need a Union?
Eoghan Brophy wonders: I was talking to my dad abut blogs and unions on the way home from the airport. He’d been at a journalism union conference. I was wondering what you thought bloggers should have to do with unions. If anyone tried to make a cent out of anything you’d made, I’m sure you’d [...]
Yes, It’s True – I’m Now the Tech Expert on CNN.com!
You heard me correctly. Yours truly is the new Tech Expert over at CNN’s website! If you haven’t seen it yet, take a read through my article discussing DRM, and let me know what you think! Chris that brilliant! The gig, that is. You are right about the pic….:) – WorldofHiglet Congrats! – Anika Malone [...]
Are Bloggers Journalists: Are Blogs new Journalism?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Is blogging the new form of Journalism? Should bloggers be held to the same standards as the media? Those questions were asked of me recently in an email, and raise a lot of food for thought. I don’t know that I’d [...]
