Image by Ask America via Flickr Seems everyone has a year in review article on their blog or newsite this time of year. And why not? Ain't nothing happening on the web or in the world so what better time to look back at the end of the year than at the end of the year? Of course we aren't going to look
Do you ever wake up in the morning thinking about a blog post, maybe it was a dream or something? I did this morning. It was quiet, no one was doing this yet, and I was actually chuckling to myself over this post. I was talking to Cardiogirl the other day. Cardiogirl is one of many bloggers I have actually talked to on the phone
I'm having a lot of doubts these days. I'm not sure what I am doing or why for that matter. I want to finish this book but the more I work on it the more I think it sucks. I also know that I need to refine the focus of it, I have an idea but honestly I don't know what the fuck I am
I said I wasn't going to take a break but it looks like I am. Of course now that I have said that I have all kinds of ideas for posts here but still I must press on. I am so close to the finish and ready and writing other things is just too distracting. I actually composed a post about the issues I have,
Image via Wikipedia I can't be the only one. Maybe you don't know what I am talking about. I am talking about when you leave a comment on a blog. Usually when you leave a comment the blogger will respond to your comment in the comment section. If they have Disqus or some other threaded commenting plugin you will get an email with the reply
Image via Wikipedia I often hear bloggers complain that they don't get many comments. They have done all the right things, they tell me, they have written great content, joined blog communities and promoted their posts, they have visited other sites and commented but they still aren't getting any comments, or at least very few, on their blog. What gives? I'll tell you what gives.
Remember that book by John Fowles, or the movie adapted by Harold Pinter with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons? The French Lieutenant's Woman was a very long story written by a great writer about the story within a story. I read it in college and recall there was a lot of jumping around. See the movie, it makes more sense. You probably don't have a
Image via Wikipedia Summer is here and already I have noticed a drop in my traffic. It took a dive last weekend for Memorial Day but in all honesty it started dropping when the weather got warmer. This has been standard for me since I have been blogging so I don't worry about it too much but I would really like to prevent or at
I hate blog awards! There, I said it. Hate is a strong word. I abhor, despise, detest, and loathe blog awards. I realize I have just lost half my readers with that statement. I never realized how much I strongly disliked blog awards until last week when I received about a hundred of them. Okay, it was more like three but it felt like
Image via CrunchBase I was trying to get caught up on my commenting today and noticed that I can't visit a lot of you because you aren't registered with Disqus and therefore your blog link isn't showing up when you comment. I really want to visit you, so if you refuse to register with Disqus (even though it is free and it will totally make
