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Personal Reasons To Blog

October 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I read Matthew Ingram’s post with quotes from Seth Godin about blogging.  It’s related to my recent post mentioning my own reasons to blog.  I think it’s worth repeating what Seth said:
Blogging is free. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it. What matters is the humility that comes from writing it. What matters is the [...]

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Being Reciprocal

March 17th, 2008 · 15 Comments

I saw Jay’s post on Technorati Favorites Exchange, and read the associated Dosh Dosh article that inspired him to promote reciprocal favorites. It will certainly help a new blog to be put “on the map” if they start with a decent amount of fan base, as ranking sites like the Blog Juice Calculator uses [...]

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My Blogosphere

March 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I have been using the Clustr Maps widget since October 2007 to track where my readers are coming from. I’ve noticed those red dots light up all over North America and Europe in the first few weeks. For the longest time, I did not get any traffic from South America and Africa. [...]

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Being (Online) Social

March 7th, 2008 · 20 Comments

When I first wrote a post about being social, I knew I wasn’t specifically identifying the post’s title with my internet social experience. I didn’t think it matters because being social could apply to both online and offline (real life). Now there seems to be an obvious difference for being social online: internet [...]

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Other Side of the Blogio

February 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here’s my attempt to do a Blogging Parallelism post. It’s a tribute to Chris Rice’s inspirational music “Other Side of the Radio”. My apologies to Chris for pilfering and tweaking his lyrics. Note that “blogio” is just my way of saying “blog”. It sounds better when I try to sing the modified [...]

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