http://www.blogospherenews.com Blogosphere News votes Tue, 13 May 2008 03:26:46 PDT en http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Best_Blogs_Keep_Improving http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Best_Blogs_Keep_Improving Tue, 13 May 2008 03:26:46 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Best_Blogs_Keep_Improving How does a blog move from good to better to best? By constant improvement. At regular intervals you must take a break from writing blog posts and give an objective assessment of your blog.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Tags_for_Traffic http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Tags_for_Traffic Tue, 13 May 2008 02:41:30 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Tags_for_Traffic Want to increase traffic to your blog? I suggest you start tagging your entries.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_A_Desktop_Client_Goes_A_Long_Way http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_A_Desktop_Client_Goes_A_Long_Way Tue, 13 May 2008 02:34:28 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Twitter_A_Desktop_Client_Goes_A_Long_Way The reason Twitter has become so popular is because of the third-party applications that have been developed for it, and if you're not using, at the very least, a desktop client, you are missing a significant portion of the Twitter experience.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Even_When_You_Are_Gone_You_Can_Still_Be_There http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Even_When_You_Are_Gone_You_Can_Still_Be_There Tue, 13 May 2008 02:00:48 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Even_When_You_Are_Gone_You_Can_Still_Be_There The ability to post content at a future point in time without having to do it yourself is a great way to ensure you are prepared, but you also need to have content readily available when you might not have it otherwise.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_Is_Twitter_Helping_or_Hurting_You_and_Your_Blog http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_Is_Twitter_Helping_or_Hurting_You_and_Your_Blog Tue, 13 May 2008 01:33:23 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_Is_Twitter_Helping_or_Hurting_You_and_Your_Blog At more and more conferences, Twitter is becoming the conversation of choice. Instead of live blogging, people are twittering live reports from conferences, as well as chatting among themselves as if Twitter were a live chat or instant message service.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Finding_your_blogging_balance http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Finding_your_blogging_balance Tue, 13 May 2008 00:45:06 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Finding_your_blogging_balance The practice of blogging does not only consist of writing but it usually also involves reading other blogs, commenting and networking. Most of us are not fulltime professional bloggers so how do you divide your (spare) time between all these different blogging aspects?

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=When_Fans_and_Artists_Collide http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=When_Fans_and_Artists_Collide Tue, 13 May 2008 00:16:01 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=When_Fans_and_Artists_Collide What can copyright holders due to avoid needless clashing with their own fans? Sadly, copyright law is of little help in this area and the real key lies in making an honest attempt to resolve a very complicated matter.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Linkdump_051008_Pixar_Innovation_Satanic_Branding_and_Motherrsquos_Day http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Linkdump_051008_Pixar_Innovation_Satanic_Branding_and_Motherrsquos_Day Sun, 11 May 2008 17:54:26 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Linkdump_051008_Pixar_Innovation_Satanic_Branding_and_Motherrsquos_Day I thought it would be cool to dish out interesting links you can check out this weekend. Hope you find inspiration in them.

2 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Comments_or_No_Comments http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Comments_or_No_Comments Sun, 11 May 2008 17:28:12 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Comments_or_No_Comments Having a comment section on your blog is a good idea because it becomes a venue for interaction between you and your readers as well as between the readers themselves.

2 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=BusinessWeek_Donrsquot_Link_to_Us http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=BusinessWeek_Donrsquot_Link_to_Us Sun, 11 May 2008 16:48:52 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=BusinessWeek_Donrsquot_Link_to_Us Not the journalists or editors working there though, but the knucklehead that thought it was a good idea to tell users not to link to pages on the site, and put it in a user agreement (the only link to BusinessWeek you'll find in this piece) at that, and then follow it up by telling you not to link

2 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Another_Timeline_Tool_Dipity_TimeTube http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Another_Timeline_Tool_Dipity_TimeTube Sun, 11 May 2008 16:25:12 PDT Web Services http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Another_Timeline_Tool_Dipity_TimeTube Now there's TimeTube from Dipity, which is all about presenting videos on a timeline.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Short_Fiction http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Short_Fiction Sun, 11 May 2008 15:25:36 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Short_Fiction As writing reviews teaches you brevity, writing short fiction helps you to develop non-fiction narratives that, if applied properly, could make your blogging more entertaining and/or inspiring.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Dark_Themes_are_Back http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Dark_Themes_are_Back Fri, 09 May 2008 04:27:55 PDT Blog Design http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Dark_Themes_are_Back I know the trend these days is for big, bold typefaces in bright colors over a white (or very light) backdrop. But it seems that dark background sites are having a comeback.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_ShoeMoney_Right_Seo_Has_No_Future http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_ShoeMoney_Right_Seo_Has_No_Future Fri, 09 May 2008 03:00:12 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_ShoeMoney_Right_Seo_Has_No_Future I was reading ShoeMoney's post - SEO Has No Future - the other day and I really felt the need to express my views on the matter. In short, my answer to his statement would be: You're WRONG, and let me tell you why I think so!

3 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Your_Blogrsquos_PageRank_Spanked_By_Google_Then_Try_IZEARank http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Your_Blogrsquos_PageRank_Spanked_By_Google_Then_Try_IZEARank Thu, 08 May 2008 18:34:14 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Your_Blogrsquos_PageRank_Spanked_By_Google_Then_Try_IZEARank In regard of IZEA's protest against this Google's PageRank spank, IZEA Fires Back at Google with IZEARanks. IZEARank is a blog ranking system which provides more accurate statistical data such as PageViews, Unique Visitors, RealRank as Weekly Average and Daily.

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_Free_Email_Marketing_Application_For_Blogger http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_Free_Email_Marketing_Application_For_Blogger Thu, 08 May 2008 09:44:56 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=A_Free_Email_Marketing_Application_For_Blogger how can a blogger reap benefit from Email Marketing?

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=11072_Unread_Items_In_My_Feed_Reader- http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=11072_Unread_Items_In_My_Feed_Reader- Thu, 08 May 2008 01:52:47 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=11072_Unread_Items_In_My_Feed_Reader- That's right-I have 11,072 unread items on my feed reader. All of it pretty much equates to me being way behind on my subscriptions. I am either subscribed to too many feeds, engaged in too many other things to bother, uninterested in the feeds which I am subscribed to, or a combination of all thr

3 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Which_Bookmarklet_WordPress_2-5-1_Mandatory_Upgrade_WordPress_Plugin_Contest_WordCamp_2008_in_San_Francisco_and--- http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Which_Bookmarklet_WordPress_2-5-1_Mandatory_Upgrade_WordPress_Plugin_Contest_WordCamp_2008_in_San_Francisco_and--- Thu, 08 May 2008 01:27:50 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Which_Bookmarklet_WordPress_2-5-1_Mandatory_Upgrade_WordPress_Plugin_Contest_WordCamp_2008_in_San_Francisco_and--- Which bookmarklet do you use to post to your WordPress blog? WordPress 2.5.1 is a mandatory upgrade with security patches. Are you ready for WordPress 2008 in San Francisco in August? Weblog Tools Collection hosts a WordPress Plugins contest this month. Get your WordPress Secret Key to secure your

3 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_an_Ideas_Economy http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_an_Ideas_Economy Thu, 08 May 2008 00:47:36 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_in_an_Ideas_Economy The thing is, while good information has real value, that doesn't mean your reader will value it in the same way. What can we do about it?

3 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_to_Make_Your_Blog_Posts_More_Readable-1 http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_to_Make_Your_Blog_Posts_More_Readable-1 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:30:14 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=How_to_Make_Your_Blog_Posts_More_Readable-1 Have you ever come across a post title that startled your interest, but as soon as you got to the content you couldn't read it? I did! And why didn't I read the post if the title was so interesting? Because the content was too cluttered.

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Verify_Your_Site_with_Google http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Verify_Your_Site_with_Google Thu, 08 May 2008 00:30:00 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Verify_Your_Site_with_Google The Google Webmaster Tools is a great resource for viewing your site's search engine statistics and gathering tips to help improve your site's placement. In order to help optimize your Web site for the Google search engine, the first things you need to do is verify your site with Google.

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Does_Google_Adsense_Work_In_Your_Niche_Blog http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Does_Google_Adsense_Work_In_Your_Niche_Blog Thu, 08 May 2008 00:29:54 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Does_Google_Adsense_Work_In_Your_Niche_Blog If you are a blogger who is in the niche of bloggers who blog about making money online and participate in the Google Adsense program, then more likely you are NOT going to be successful with the program. It just blows my mind to see the number of blogs that are emerging that blog about making mone

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Engage_Your_Readers_In_Your_Blog_With_ScratchBack http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Engage_Your_Readers_In_Your_Blog_With_ScratchBack Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:31 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Engage_Your_Readers_In_Your_Blog_With_ScratchBack ScratchBack is an online tipping system which lets your blog readers to tip some money and in return their desired link or image is shown on your blog in a widget designed by ScratchBack. So, how does it works? and how does it helps a blogger to engage his/her readers in their blog?

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Chose_Your_Favorite_Self-Hosted_Blog_Platform http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Chose_Your_Favorite_Self-Hosted_Blog_Platform Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:25 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Chose_Your_Favorite_Self-Hosted_Blog_Platform An extensive review of the most popular and most known self-hosted blog platforms, with their pros and cons.

5 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Make_Your_Blogging_Experience_More_Vibrant_With_Zemanta http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Make_Your_Blogging_Experience_More_Vibrant_With_Zemanta Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:22 PDT Plugins and Hacks http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Make_Your_Blogging_Experience_More_Vibrant_With_Zemanta Zemanta provides an innovative Firefox plug-in which gives added features in blogging platform. This plug-in suggests links, pictures, articles (from other source) and tags based on your blog post which you can add easily with just a click in your post.

3 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=More_Ways_To_Optimize_Your_Blog_For_Your_Readers http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=More_Ways_To_Optimize_Your_Blog_For_Your_Readers Wed, 07 May 2008 05:57:18 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=More_Ways_To_Optimize_Your_Blog_For_Your_Readers Another way that you can make it easier for your readers to read your blog is to make sure that your categories and tags are created and grouped properly.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Creative_Writing_Appropriate_For_Blogs http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Creative_Writing_Appropriate_For_Blogs Wed, 07 May 2008 05:13:00 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Is_Creative_Writing_Appropriate_For_Blogs Indeed, bloggers should be able to appeal to the emotions of their readers from time to time. Even blogs that are mainly informative in nature would benefit from appealing to emotions every now and then.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Reviews http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Reviews Wed, 07 May 2008 04:46:28 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Practical_Blogging_Tips_Why_Write_Reviews You're saying, "my blog isn't about reviews." Even still, writing reviews helps you to learn constructive criticism - assuming that you aren't out to be purely critical. Writing short reviews help you to be more succinct. And it's not all that hard if you practice.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Earning_Opportunities_Do_You_Read_White_Papers_Write_Them http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Earning_Opportunities_Do_You_Read_White_Papers_Write_Them Wed, 07 May 2008 04:30:56 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Earning_Opportunities_Do_You_Read_White_Papers_Write_Them If you thought white papers to promote your business were out and blogging in, join the club. But apparently there's life in them yet. Brian Clark at Copyblogger talks about how white papers earn author Mike Stelzner $300K/year.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_What_Do_You_Do_to_Relax http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_What_Do_You_Do_to_Relax Wed, 07 May 2008 03:15:42 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_What_Do_You_Do_to_Relax When you're stuck for what to blog, or you're stressed out, what do you do to relax? Besides taking the dogs for a walk, I enjoy two main stress relievers: strumming on the guitar or creating "art".

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Webby_Winners_Announced http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Webby_Winners_Announced Wed, 07 May 2008 02:39:36 PDT Contests, Events, Conferences http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Webby_Winners_Announced The Webby Awards have been announced (I thought that already happened?), and the winners are presented both in a nice flashy gallery, and on the static full page.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Perfect_Blogging_Computer_First_Draft http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Perfect_Blogging_Computer_First_Draft Wed, 07 May 2008 02:13:19 PDT General http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=The_Perfect_Blogging_Computer_First_Draft In response to my news post on Dell turning 24, Dell employee and Direct2Dell blogger Richard asked me what I thought was the perfect blogging computer. Naturally, when I posed the question to Dell in the first place, it was rhetorical, since I anticipated someone would ask what I thought the perfe

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Interview_Colleen_Coplick_on_Taking_Over_Buzz_Networker http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Interview_Colleen_Coplick_on_Taking_Over_Buzz_Networker Wed, 07 May 2008 02:11:35 PDT Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Shows http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Interview_Colleen_Coplick_on_Taking_Over_Buzz_Networker What makes this switch extra interesting is the fact that Colleen will be blogging about "PR 2.0″, which means social media and more, and she'll be doing that with her 7 years of traditional PR backing her.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Join_the_9rules_Network http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Join_the_9rules_Network Tue, 06 May 2008 05:20:26 PDT Blogging News http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Join_the_9rules_Network Does your website have have quality content? Get recognized by one of the most popular web communities, 9rules.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Text_Only_Text_and_Nothing_But_The_TextmdashWriteRoom_Dark_Room_and_DarkCopy http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Text_Only_Text_and_Nothing_But_The_TextmdashWriteRoom_Dark_Room_and_DarkCopy Tue, 06 May 2008 04:54:10 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Text_Only_Text_and_Nothing_But_The_TextmdashWriteRoom_Dark_Room_and_DarkCopy Essentially, these editors give users the ability to focus on the text, and only the text. For the professional blogger/writer, one of these text editors might become invaluable to your writing process.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_How_Do_You_Learn_Something_New http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_How_Do_You_Learn_Something_New Tue, 06 May 2008 04:27:52 PDT Tutorials and Tips http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Bloggers_How_Do_You_Learn_Something_New You've probably heard/read the age-old advice to writers: write about what you know. Not to be contrarian, but there are ways to write about what you don't know - or at least don't know very well - and it's a good way to learn a topic better.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Pay_A_Subscription_Fee_For_Ad-Free_Content_On_Blogs http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Pay_A_Subscription_Fee_For_Ad-Free_Content_On_Blogs Tue, 06 May 2008 03:51:01 PDT Promotion, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Monetization http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Would_You_Pay_A_Subscription_Fee_For_Ad-Free_Content_On_Blogs I was quite surprised when I visited Daily Kos, a very popular political blog, and I was prompted with a message that, essentially, stated I was being less than polite for using AdBlock Plus to avoid advertising. I was then informed that I could remove the message that was annoying the hell out of

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Conference_Call_Interviews_and_Proposals http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Conference_Call_Interviews_and_Proposals Tue, 06 May 2008 03:11:46 PDT Blog Software http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Movable_Type_Monday_Conference_Call_Interviews_and_Proposals When first compiling my list of links for this week's Movable Type Monday, I thought last week was quite quiet. Turns out I was wrong with a significant refactoring to major code coming in beta 5 of Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) 4.15 as well as several interviews and announcements by members in t

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_is_Not_About_You http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_is_Not_About_You Tue, 06 May 2008 02:18:05 PDT Contests, Events, Conferences http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Blogging_is_Not_About_You One of the loudest messages shouted from the rooftops in Chicago at Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) was: It's not about you.

1 Vote(s) http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Podcast_2008-2__An_exclusive_interview_with_Duncan_Riley_on_his_exit_from_TechCrunch http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Podcast_2008-2__An_exclusive_interview_with_Duncan_Riley_on_his_exit_from_TechCrunch Tue, 06 May 2008 01:17:28 PDT Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Shows http://www.blogospherenews.com/story.php?title=Podcast_2008-2__An_exclusive_interview_with_Duncan_Riley_on_his_exit_from_TechCrunch Duncan Riley, the former owner of The Blog Herald, has left his gig as a blogger for Michael Arrington's TechCrunch, the number one blog in the blogosphere.

1 Vote(s)