Tag Archives: 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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