Write comments for (and create links to) blogs that appreciate them

Link love from Flickr by Sister72 licensed under Creative CommonsIf you are a blogger just starting out, there is a bright shiny world of poor blogging advice to be discovered.  It covers the full spectrum:

  • how (not to) build an audience for your blog,
  • how (not to) to monetize your blog, and last but not least 

Posted under Hate pets

This post was written by @Drivelry on August 5, 2009

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Let’s hope the medium is not the message

The video that should have been an article

Lecture video on Flickr by Andrew Feinberg licensed under Creative CommonsWhat motivates people in chosing media types to publish their content? Why, for example, produce a video on a topic which would be far better expressed in print?

Posted under Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on July 28, 2009

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Pros and cons of the celebrity cancer confessional

The writing about dying businessJade Goody - Big Brother reality-TV celeb - not recommended reading

It’s hard to be a fan of the celebrity cancer confessional.

 Apart from the similarity to watching a sports match where you  know the likely outcome, and that disease should at least be the great social leveller, you also wonder about priorities i.e. how would you like to spend your last year, doing stuff with people who are important, or writing a book?

Posted under Cliche watch, Self doubt

This post was written by @Drivelry on July 13, 2009

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How to successfully blog without really trying (or ‘The 10 Rules For Blogging Superstardom’)

Superstar bloggers from Flickr - by Star5112
A year ago I wrote an article titled ‘why write another blog‘  (the emphasis being on another if you take a look at the numbers of blogs out there) when I started Drivelry.com. 

Now that I know most things there are to know about blogging I thought it was important to give something back to the community.

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This post was written by @Drivelry on July 7, 2009

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How much damage can Twitter do to Google & bloggers?

Photo by carrotcreative from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons
An interesting article from Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand this week on tracking traffic into his website via Twitter.

In a nutshell (and he’d probably be horrified to see it oversimplified like this) he was pointing out that for one of his articles only about a sixth of the traffic it actually got from Twitter showed up in Google Analytics.

Posted under Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on June 26, 2009

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Ban the travel guides

Tourism and mental baggage

Travel is an odd business.  The more you think about it the odder it can seem.

We all ‘get’ the idea that it’s supposed to be ‘enriching’ and ‘inspirational’  but we actually arrive at a new city with a whole trolley-full of mental baggage.  After all, that’s why we bought the ticket to that particular destination in the first place…

Posted under Hate pets

This post was written by @Drivelry on June 19, 2009

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Online news: bloggers v newspapers – will the lowest cost base win?

Financial forecasts look negative for newspapers

Photo by Zarko Drincic from Flickr licensed under Creative CommonsThere are some nervous investors in the newspaper world.  Even after the recent 30% lift in the broader stockmarket, newspaper stocks like the New York Times Company and the Washington Post Company are trading on price to cashflow multiples of 4.2 and 6.8, where their 3 year averages were 11.8 and 10.6 respectively (Gannet actually trades at 1.8 x cashflow – albeit with a lot of debt).

Posted under Kewl

This post was written by @Drivelry on June 9, 2009

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