The Small Creators Great Twitter Migration
Plumbing Issues are for the Birds It’s been a crazy couple weeks. Right after this weird dude showed up at Twitter with a sink, my hot water heater at home blew up. I did that whole thing of mopping up the water with stacks of towels, hauling out the old heater, and ordering a replacement. Only instead of replacing with the same old thing and looking at having to do it all again when a new tank outlive it’s life, I decided to try a tank-less water heater. Hopefully the upgrade will prove satisfying. I logged back into Twitter. Looks like the new plumber is really crap at…
Blogging Tips for Beginners:Spinning Your Web
Web 2.0 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! There would be no WWW without links. Links make the web, one page to another, one idea to another, one person to another. There should be no blog post without links. Not only do links take your readers to more information about a topic, they provide breadcrumb trails for readers at those other sites to find you. In the blogger world they call this trail a trackback. I know, we all groan and roll our eyes over terms, but this one actually means what it says — it provides a track for readers to follow back to your blog from the one you…
Blogging for Beginners: What Slice of the Pie Do You Want?
So you’ve decided to start blogging and — as I suggested last week — you downloaded and installed a copy of Flock. Now what? Well before we start playing with the new toy we have a decision to make. It’s the most important decision you make as a blogger. What slice of the pie do you want? If you look at any popular blog site you know which slice of the audience pie they are after, which theme their blog posts revolve around. Pick any of your favorite blogs and see if I’m not right. Let me pick one for you — Over at the Otherworld Diner they deliver their…
