Category: Blogging

Congrats to my brother Tony on his 10,000th visitor (per SiteMeter) at his blog, Technically Speaking. Here’s to the next 10K. As for me, I’m flying to the 20K mark because of all the fools people who are still searching for pictures of that female rapper who shall remain nameless. What a waste of my… Continue reading The Hits Man

Here’s a site I just noticed via my referrer logs — LocalFeeds. Here’s what it does: Localfeeds is a collection of local news services, gathering headlines from over 500 sources every hour and organizing them by city. Feed discovery and processing is entirely automatic. If a publisher supports certain standards, lists with the GeoURL location… Continue reading LocalFeeds = RSS + GeoURL

Along the lines of what I was talking about yesterday with spelling and vocabulary in blog posts… Here’s a post which asks if blog posts are first drafts. I agree 100% with the author — even if a post is thrown together quickly the author should at least proofread and spell-check that post before publishing.

I just passed 10,000 hits (actually visits… hits are a bit higher) on this blog. I’m surprised that it reached that level so fast because my other blog, Trader Mike, is almost 3 months older but only has 5,600 hits so far. I wish I could say this blog has taken off because of my… Continue reading 10,000 Hits

I keep coming across people who want better blogging tools. Seems like a good opportunity for somebody to come in and take the market by storm. (Maybe I need to get back into writing code…) The requirements list could be built from these: Susan’s list of tools – I would love to have all of… Continue reading The Next Killer App(s)?

Those of you with an interest in Africa may want to check out the budding Africa Blog. Its welcome message tells you its mission: “… we hope to create a different kind of blog. Instead of simply picking apart policies and pointing to problems, we hope to offer new views that lead to solutions to… Continue reading Africa Blog

I just noticed that Technorati is now listing outbound links in addition to the inbound link cosmos from a blog. There are also some other new features: Technorati Profiles A new feature you may have noticed at Technorati is Member Profiles. They’re an easy way to find out more information about the people behind the… Continue reading New Technorati Features