Blogging, News: JournalHome.com Sold
I received an e-mail, today, from the (former) Journal Home administrator (I’m a JH member). According to the e-mail:
New Blog Creation Series: Initial Choices
Welcome to the New Blog Creation series. This particular series will concentrate on the steps taken (and neccesary) for starting any new blog. In this case, we’ll be using my recently started blog, MindSpeak (formerly known as MindFyre Politics) as an example. I will discuss the steps in went through in making choices for, and setting up, the new blog. As usual, this is a conversation, and I encourage comments, questions, suggestions, and even debate. Did you do something differently than I did (or would you have)? Let us know. Is there something you think I forgot? Let us know. As always, this is about you, and your process of learning to be an amateur blogger. Let’s get started.
Initial Choices
There are a lot of initial choices that go with starting a blog. Needless to say, the first decicion is that of actually starting the blog. In my case, I decided it was time to start MindSpeak when I was invited to join the Texas Progressive Alliance (TEXAdS). I realize, at that point, that I would be making more politically oriented posts. I decided that it was time to seperate that topic genre (or niche) from my main blog, which was concentrating primarily on blogging, tech, and web 2.0. It was then that I decided to begin MindSpeak.
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Blogging, Series: Coming Soon, New Series from MindFyre
With the success of the Amateur Blogging Series, I felt it was only right to continue a good trend. So, I decided to write another series (or two). In this case, I’ve written a series on blog creation.
The New Blog Creation Series will walk you through – step-by-step – setting up a new blog. In this series, I use my newest blog, MindSpeak, as an example, providing "real-world" looks at how I made certain choices in setting up the blog. This series is designed for both the first-time blogger, and the multi-blogger. Whether you’re setting up your first blog on blogger.com, or you’re creating another MoveableType blog on your existing server, you’ll benefit from this series.
Tech: Spammers are Using My Domains
I just checked my company Customer Service e-mail account and found 144 failed delivery notifications. It appears that some spammer is using bunk addresses from one of my company domains as their "return path" header information.
The FROM: is apparently random (probably zombie systems), but the return-path: always has "RandomName@CompanyDomain.com".
Site: Testing a Plugin
This entry is being written to test a plugin I just finished. It’s an extension of Broobles’ SimpleTags plugin. It allows you to place Technorati, Flickr, or Del.icio.us tags into your posts, simply by using custom tags.
For instance, if I wanted to tag blogging for delicious, I would use "del" in brackets: [], just like an HTML tag. Unfortunately, I can’t actually demonstrate it, as even escaping the syntax does not seem to work.
Del.icio.us Tags: bloggingBlogging: Moving From Journaling to Blogging
From Journaling to Blogging, A Guide for Switching.
Since our ancient ancestors learned to write, people have been keeping journals. From pictographs on a cave wall, to hieroglyphs on a sarcaphogus, to your little sister’s diary, folks have a longing to document their lives, and express their feelings and opinions on what goes on in those lives.
With the advent of the Internet, and consumer-oriented webware, a natural step in journaling was to take it online. Over time, a certain subset of journalers began to realize that people wanted to read their opinions on certain issues. It was this sudden realization of an audience that led to blogging. What was once an ability to post individual thoughts and commentary on daily life, had changed to the ability to hold visitors in rapt attention to their words, and keep them coming back for more. Over time, the majority of these people realized that they had the biggest audience on specific topics, and were often asked to concentrate on those topics. Blogging was born.
We needed that little history lesson, so you’ll understand why many people make the switch from journaling to blogging. Why you might be suddenly thinking about switching. How you decide which is the best medium for you.
Let’s take a look at both journaling and blogging, and then we’ll talk a little about the differences. While they aren’t entirely seperate worlds, one can liken them to the differences between a teen, under hir parents rule, and an adult, out on hir own, making hir own decisions. (The use of the word “hir” is as a gender-neutral pronoun. For more information on gender-neutral pronouns, please see this FAQ.)
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Blogging: Amateur Blogger Starts Thinking Money, Quickly Realizes Mistake
This post has been a long time in coming. The amateur blogger I spoke of in the title, is myself. That’s right, I got wrapped up in money.
On Friday, I woke up, sat down at the computer, and did some research for a non-blogging company I run. After a couple of hours, I was ready to move on to blogging. I opened up my "Startup" folder (a folder which displays all of my stats pages and earnings pages, that I check at the start of each day), and started going through my stats and ad revenue statements. I then got in the mind set of monetization, and spent the next several hours working on ways to better monetize my blog.
Site: Curl Issues?
A couple of times, lately, I’ve loaded the blog only to discover that a curl_init() error was preventing the page from loading. This error is tracked back to the referrer karma system that blocks referrer spam. If the system is causing major issues, then perhaps I should disable it.
What I need from you:
Blogging: MySpace is the Downfall of Blogging?
Jeremy Wright, over at Ensight, has an interesting post about how MySpace will be the downfall of the Blogosphere.
The argument goes something like this: Read the rest of this entry »
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