links for 2008-08-20
August 20, 2008
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Great blog post why domain names are vital. Conclusion: All other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name".
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Great blog post about how newspapers like Chicago Tribune broke a story about a local bomb threat thanks to the interaction with social media users on Twitter
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Great interactive guide for programming on the web.
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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks.
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-15
August 15, 2008
- Early morning hike on Mount Hollywood. Very relaxing! http://is.gd/1yqf #
- Digg has 15 million visitors worldwide in June, but Yahoo’s Buzz bypassed Digg in the U.S. http://is.gd/1yr1 #
- Currently reading: ProBlogger’s great post Using AideRSS To Help Identify Hot Topics To Cover On Your Blog. http://is.gd/1yrP #
- Google rolls out Adsense for feeds. Might give it a try. http://is.gd/1xdG #
- “Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.” (Jean Cocteau) #
links for 2008-08-14
August 14, 2008
New Record Level of Blogger Arrests
August 13, 2008
Arresting bloggers to suppress freedom of speech becomes more and more common. China threw a political blogger in jail, Egypt detained a blogger without a trial, Malaysia arrested a blogger for sedition – and Iran considers a law to murder bloggers. (Even at the U.S. border feds can now ‘detain’ anybody’s laptop).
The World Information Access Project at the University of Washington released a report that identified 64 bloggers, unaffiliated with news organizations, who had been arrested for the contents of their blogs between 2003 and 2008.
WIA writes:
After surveying our data, we predict that the number of blogger arrests will rise in 2008. The popularity of online blogs continues to grow and inspire more media coverage of arrest incidents. Countries are enforcing greater Internet regulation, which will only increase with the elections in China, Pakistan, Iran and the United States this year.
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08
August 8, 2008
- I just figured out how to send text messages to my friends in Europe. For free. Hint: AIM. #
- 12 iPhone tricks you might not have known: http://is.gd/1iry #
- Sarah posted her favorite online readers advisory tools: http://is.gd/1iYa #
- That’s funny! The Four Word Film Review website: http://fwfr.com/ #
- A miracle? The U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) discovers Twitter: http://is.gd/1iYn #
- Looking forward to your post about Saltwater Taffy. Great blog, by the way: http://cozyland.net #
- @Misscozy Additionally – these cats in your recent posts are really cute: http://is.gd/1iYM #
- SEomoz published a Professional’s Guide to Blogging. Pondering if I should buy it: http://is.gd/1iDc #
- Must-read: Mike Blumental’s post “The Lazy Son of The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps” ( http://tinyurl.com/6z8ntz ) #
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-02
August 2, 2008
- Is your ISP interfering with your BitTorrent connections? Check out Switzerland. Not the country, but the tool: http://tinyurl.com/554nlw #
The Best Posts About Blogging Of this Week
August 2, 2008
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Blogging about blogging is fascinating. There millions of angles you can cover. Starting from creating a blog, finding a great undiscovered niche, and writing high-quality content which is useful to everybody. Certainly there many advantages for individuals and corporations to blog, but there are also downsides and painful consequences when done wrong. There are dozens (hundreds) of web writers out there who offer tips and advice about blogging. Only a few offer real expertise and insights how to be a successful blogger, in my opinion.
Either way, the amount of metablogs and posts about blogging is overwhelming (Technorati currently lists over 340000 posts about blogging).
My picks can only scratch the surface. But here are this week’s 10 blog posts about blogging which I liked most:
- Passion, Honesty, Content and Light-Footedness – Ingredients of Successful Blogging (Problogger)
- Debunking Your Reasons for Not Blogging (RSS Applied Blog)
- Why I Love Corporate Blogs – And You Should Too (Mashable)
- Blogging Questions And Answers 10 (Daily Blog Tips)
- Make The “Cloud Of Links” By Some Awesome Writing Approaches (SEO MegaCorp News Blog)
- Prepare Yourself For The Blog Bullies (Blog Herald)
- Better Your Blogging With 12 Nifty Tools (Blissfully Domestic)
- Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Failed You (Robert Scoble)
- Blogging 101 – A Little Help? (The Exploding Newsroom)
- How To Make Your Blog More Personal (Problogger)