Blogging
Is It Time to Name Blogging Subgroups?
Now that we bloggers have changed the world, the web, and the news, people are starting to look at us in a new light. We’ve even gotten into the dictionary, and some news outlets are starting to look to blogs for more news to cover. I’m starting to notice that the singular term “blog” is [...]
Nice Traffic Tool for Bloggers/Webmasters
I’ve posted about this elsewhere, but haven’t done so here, because it’s a little outside of my normal fare. If you’re looking for a good way to get at least 10,000 true visits to your blog or other website by real people, you should check out HonestyHits. It’s a service where you surf other sites [...]
Blogging Traffic Exchange Sites
I’ve used Blog Explosion for a while, and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. The concept is simple. You use their “surfing” tool to view blogs that belong to other members, and you earn credits. Those credits are used to send other “surfers” to your blog. For every two blogs that you visit using their [...]
The Supermarket and the City Market
Eric S. Raymond wrote, and continues to update, a book called “The Cathedral And The Bazaar.” It’s a book about software development. The analogy compares centrally-developed software such as Microsoft Windows to Open Source Software such as Gnu/Linux. The analogy works well, but I didn’t want to steal it directly. In looking at the difference [...]