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Darren Rouse show what a day in the life of an [A list] blogger is like. Life is speeded up in the 21st century!

Check out this video of a session at WordCamp 2007 in San Fransico, July 21. [unconference like blog philly sponsored by WordPress] Jeremy Wright of blog network B5 did a great job moderating a panel on blog monitization. Its 50 minutes long so I will tell you some of the highlites for me. A list [...]

Around 300 people attended the two day(and evening party) event at the really nice Raddison Warwick hotel in downtown Philly. I found it really wonderful that the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp was a major sponsor. They are the people behind the new hip focused tourism site UWISHUNU ;Philly from an insider perspective. This proves [...]

This looks to be a fun and informative event, an two day unconference on blogging and social media. And it is free. See you there.

Abhijit Nadgouda wrote a great post on the benefits of Word Press as a content management system: Pages and Posts WordPress supports two basic types of content – Pages and posts. Pages are used to hold information that is valid for a bigger span of time. For such content, a change overwrites the earlier content. [...]

Acording to James Lamberti of comScore, AOL gets the highest percentage of paid clicks at 24%, followed by Google at 13%, Yahoo at 11%, and MSN at 8%. From this basic data, a high ranking for any given query in Google is worth roughly four times that of a visible AdWord link for the same [...]

Reading books in your field is an important trait of leaders. The same applies to business blogs. The greatest business minds are sharing their knowledge for free. Smart competitors are constantly reading more and therefore learning more. What about you? Are you reinventing your knowledge continuously or is your intellectual capital getting staler by the [...]

Fallacy #1: I can get all the SEO benefits from a blog without doing any work (creating content on a consistent basis). A hired blogger could be a solution but who know the business better than the principal. The “ghost” blogger would still need to be briefed weekly on what the executive is thinking and [...]

Six Apart (makers of TypePad and Moveable Type) has an interesting ongoing series of posts about weblog history and its pioneers as the medium reaches its tenth year. The lastest interview is with Michael Sippey, who helped influence some of the fundamental thinking about blogging. I wrote a toss-off piece in 1995 called “The Three [...]

Google just keeps going and going … almost puts the Energizer Bunny to shame. Google market share gained another 2ppts in March. So here’s a question. If Google gains one more point in market share, will we lose our veto power? That’s right, for all intents and purposes two-thirds of the 6.4 billion web search [...]