Blogging is a way for us to have our voice heard. It’s how we broadcast our thoughts to the world at large. We develop an audience. We widen the conversation. It allows for a greater variety of discussion. We give our unique viewpoints on…um…what everyone else is talking about.
Social networking exacerbates the problem. It creates [...]
Tuesday saw the famed ‘Download Day’ as Firefox 3 was released. They racked up 8.3 million downloads despite server problems and rumours of a security loophole. Great press coverage, a success all round. And a big chunk of the success was taken up with a “yah, boo, sucks to Internet Explorer” approach.
Which seems to be [...]
I’ve been writing the Traffic Growth series for ten weeks now. The first question was “How much traffic can I get through viral methods?”. The answer to that is “a lot more than before”. I’ve demonstrated that it doesn’t take a huge amount of work. I’ve shown that actively socially networking, and providing decent content, [...]
We all sign up for a lot of stuff on the internet. New services, betas, forums, etc. Some of it we test out for a day or two, and never really use again. When a service starts sending out sarcastic or critical emails because you’re inactive, that’s taking things too far.
A while ago I signed [...]
I’m pretty active on StumbleUpon. Have been for the six months I’ve been a member. I’ve rated a bunch of pages, I have a reasonable number of fans. And no reviews of my StumbleUpon home page.
In the grand scheme of things this is no big deal. My StumbleUpon profile is not the major focus of [...]
There is not enough time in the day. I recently worked out my time commitments over a twenty-four hour period. They came to twenty-five hours. That’s not a recipe for anything other than stress. I cut my time commitments from “what I spend” to “what I need to spend”. Turns out that less time is [...]
