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Posts tagged "Blogs"

Would You Prefer Your Articles To Be Dugg or Shared?

Lately I’ve been noticing that I pay more attention to how many times my articles are shared on RSSmeme and Readburner rather than how many times they’ve been voted for on Digg. I think I can safely say that it’s much easier to get your article shared rather than dugg, though I’m not sure why...

Blog Comments Aren’t Dead, But Your Activities May Be Keeping Them Away

Robert Scoble made a post a while back about blog comments being dead. Well, if you look at one of my recent posts, Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away, I have 30 comments on it thus far on SheGeeks.net. How’d my identi.ca post go over on FriendFeed? Not very well actually. I...

Comments: Are They For The Author Or The Audience?

Everyday we crank out posts for readers to respond. We try to contribute to the conversation. We aim to solve a problem or have a problem solved for us by our readers. Everyday. The overall point is to receive feedback among other things. Can we all agree with that?Yet, there’s a huge stir about conversation...

Is It Necessary For A-listers To Get First Dibs?

When it comes to promoting a service or site, the "smartest" startups will contact the big names to get their start. This leaves a very wide gap open for the taking for smaller blogs. However, for all it’s worth, is it really necessary for A-listers to get first dibs?     A-List Benefits There’s no denying...

What I Mean By Being An "Information Filter"

Jarred of Tropophilia has a unique response to a conversation started by Steven Hodson and one that I also supplied my thoughts about (see: Be A Great Human Information Filter). To quote Jarred’s post: But Steve states that bloggers can be “most useful” by essentially filtering information for readers.  Our task, he says, is to...