Okay, this is fun! If you’ve recently upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 and also the latest version of PodPress 8.8, you may be in for some Internal Server Error page hijinks. As far as I know right now, the only solution is to deactivate the PodPress plugin. Update: I don’t think PodPress really has anything to…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Theme Changeover Coming
Remarkablogger‘s gonna get a shiny new theme and redesign for 2008! There may be some goofiness during the transition. Right now my contact forms are disabled, and you may get Internal Server Error pages as you navigate the blog. If that happens, just reload the page and it should be fine. I’ll get it all…
Blogs in Plain English
Common Craft is a wonderful site and service (yes, service) that produces these whimsical (probably the only time you will ever see that word on this blog) videos that explain things in plain English. Techy things, like RSS and Wikis. Many of you know people who don’t really get the whole blogging thing (sorry for…
Spotlink: Seth Godin Action Figure
Tip of the hat to the Six Pixels of Separation Blog for finding the Seth Godin Action Figure! Man, I gotta get me one. I’ll carry him around in my shirt pocket, like the little voice of permission marketing and remarkability.
John Battelle’s Blogging Predictions for 2008
Two well-known people discussing the future of media, publishing, advertising, and blogging. One is former Microsoftie and corporate blog advocate Robert Scoble. The other is former editor of Wired Magagzine, The Industry Standard (trying for a comeback), and author of best-selling The Search John Battelle. Battelle now heads up the rising Federated Media. Battelle has…
Bye, Bye, Facebook!
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Facebook is the most worthless waste of time ever? Facebook is so maddeningly useless to me, I just can’t stand it anymore. I don’t want to be poked, bitten by vampires, sent drinks, find out if my movie tastes are like someone else’s, join a group…
Six Ways to Improve Your New Blog Over the Holidays
My Blog Booster project is a great success, but it brought me face to face with a lot of new blogs. Although I hate to say it, I saw some common beginner’s mistakes. Of course, I want to help everyone do the best they can, so as my little holiday gift to everyone, I made…
Just Started a Blog? Submit Your Blog Here for a Boost!
UPDATE: I’ve closed comments on this, because it was so popular that the list of blogs for people to visit is getting too long. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s a wonderful thing! Rest assured I will do this again in the near future! But for now, I’d like to thank all of you who…
What Makes a Great Food Blog?
There are plenty of food blogs online, but what makes for a really good food blog? Maybe you’ve been thinking about starting a food blog or you’ve recently started a food blog. What should you do? Learn from other food blogs, that’s what! Pick a Specific Sub-Niche There’s a lot of food out there! Sure,…
Overheard in the Blogosphere 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBKrJsn9lg”>barely
Forget about trying to find something radically different to explore, some new topic or subject, unless you are authentically compelled to do so. Forget about trying to crank out another list, product, service or widget and then market the hell out of it. Focus instead, on the much harder work of developing your voice. (Jonathan…
Spotlink: Search Engines’ Love Affair with Blogs
Juan Tornoe tells the story of how his blog ranked higher than CNN for a search term and how amazing amounts of traffic ended up at his blog, where they followed a link through to CNN. The traffic permanently boosted his normal traffic from that point on. “Under blog posts, I was pleasantly surprised to…
Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship 3
The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship 3 is up over at Bootstrapper. My recent post on The Secret to a Successful Business Blog: Sell without Selling is on the list, but there are many other rockin’ links for you to get your biz on. I was going to list some of them, but really you…
Interviewing You: The Entrepreneur
Shane asked me if I was doing the interview, and even though there is no way that my answers would ever be as witty as Naomi‘s, I said absolutely I would do it. So here’s the deal: you interview yourself and add your own question at the end. Then you post on your blog and…
My Recent Posts on Other Blogs
Here’s what I’ve been up to on the other two blogs for which I write professionally, because I know you just can’t have enough ME in your life. Pure Blogging Forget About Advertising, Monetize Your Blog Through Consulting The Big 30-Step List on Starting a New Blog Blogging Tips Are Your Automated Plugins Doing More…
WordPress the Next Social Network? Say Hello to DiSo
The social network burnout backlash continues: Noted by Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection (and others, but that’s how I found it), the GigaOm blog has a very interesting post today about a project which will allow social network style functionality in WordPress and other blogging systems, called DiSo (also here). There has been some…
Overheard in the Blogosphere 11
Yes, it’s been a while since the last Overheard in the Blogosphere. You know why? Because it’s about quality, not quantity. Please enjoy responsibly. Whatever that means (as an aside, what a coup of marketing propaganda that slogan is!) Facebook is pushing themselves into a position of being viewed as ungrateful data hogs: amassing tons…
The Secret to a Successful Business Blog: Sell without Selling
Tim Ferriss Tells You How to Market Yourself
Tim Ferriss speaks at a viral marketing conference, but not about blogging. Except that it is about blogging, if you look at it that way. By telling how he marketed to bloggers, you can learn a lot about how to market yourself and your blog.
Spotlinks: WP Candy, New Technorati, and IttyBiz
WP Candy I got an email from Mike Castilla out of the blue the other day telling me about his blog, WP Candy. What a great name! What is WP Candy about? The WP stands for WordPress, of course, so the blog is full of nice themes and reviews and other WordPress-related goodness. Backing all…
I Have Big Hot Burning Desires
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What You Can Learn about Blogging from Boing Boing
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You can learn a lot about how to blog from Boing Boing, one of the most popular and long-running blogs on the web. Boing Boing is one of my daily must-reads. They never write about how to blog, but if you look at what they do, you can learn a lot about what makes a…
