Why I’m resurrecting the ‘link journalism’ argument
June 25, 2008
(hat tip to Chris Brogan for mentioning this issue (and the Scott Karp post) on his AWESOME blog!)
About two years ago, before I lost everything to the ‘oh dear lord’ crash of 2006, I had a tonne of articles talking about a disturbing trend in the blogging/journalistic communities - and that was ‘link love’/'link journalism’.
Time management 101
May 25, 2008
Image via Wikipedia
After reviewing eeeeverything that I get up to - and getting my first year results back from University, I decided to let go of a lot of projects. At the same time, I started looking over what I really wanted to accomplish. Several years ago when I came online, I had high hopes - and for the last two years, I realised most of them. I just don’t want to be trying to keep one step ahead of other IM marketers - and ultimately, being an IM marketer, that’s what I would need to do.
Are you drifting?
May 9, 2008
Image from FlickrOne of the goals I’ve made myself for this year is that I take care of my small procrastination ‘issue’ once and for all. But before I do, I was wondering who else was ‘drifting’.
If enough of us are, I could always drag everyone else along for the hell of it 
Comment or email y’know the drill…
One of the main time management problems most people find themselves in is either overcommitting or ineffective planning or the other dreaded p word. Procrastination.
A plugin that’s not a plugin?
April 2, 2008
Image from Wikipedia
Normally, I save my ‘tech’ talk for other blogs - but I thought this warranted sharing.
I don’t know who recommended it to me, but I’ve found this really awesome plugin called ‘Zemanta‘ It installs into your browser, and is a tool that ’suggests’ images and articles to you as you’re writing posts.
It might not sound like much, but I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to work out how to add images and make sure I’m pcoviding decent links to people. And Zemanta is a great step towards that.
Can yahoo pipes actually HELP your blogging?
March 10, 2008
Recently, I discovered a cool API that Yahoo had set up called ‘Yahoo Pipes’. Basically, what it does is ‘pipe’ feeds together into one ‘uber feed’, like connecting up a lot of little pipes to the main line.
It then spits that main line out in order of posts, into one feed, over however many blogs you’ve added to it.
The beauty of it is I can add any RSS based feed to it, and then republish it on ANY website I choose - so, any blog, free article site that I publish my work on, forum that allows me to grab feeds and more - and et voila, I’m able to combine it all into one constantly updating and evolving data stream that lets people see what I’m writing, where, and how its going.
Time saving software
March 2, 2008
I love spending time writing, but I’ve had to experiment with software to help with that.
Note - I don’t know which of these work with Mac’s I’m not on a Mac, so don’t have access to testing that at present. Let the readers know though in the comments if you like
Blogging:
Blogjet is a great way to write blog posts from your desktop - it lets you do everything but add more categories, which is my only complaint. Its got a great spell checker, you can set up pings and more (and its multi line, which means you’re not fighting with setting them up line by line in your trackback box in your wordpress admin area).