Blogger D. Keith Robinson has posted a list of things he's learned from three years of blogging.
(Via
The eStrategyOne Buzz)
Wendy Boswell, Your Guide to Web Search at About.com, is vaguely grossed out by the name of CNET's new Blogma blog. It reminds her of scars and gaping wounds. Maybe if she thought of it as a combination of blogs and magma (molten rock) that would help?
JkOntheRun tests a post on his TypePad-powered blog using BlogJet, which allows you to insert smileys in your posts. BlogJet says they have 20 high-quality smileys to choose from. :-)
Corante's Bob Cauthorn tells the MSM "you don't get to blog." CNET's Daniel Terdiman responds to Bob Cauthorn with a "Yes we do." Stephen Baker from BlogSpotting responds as well.
Girl Journalist gives a bathroom update from the BlogHer conference.
Spewing Tips: ProBlogger always has good tips but it could get messy there next month. ProBlogger writes: "Starting Monday I'm going to turn up the 'Blog Tips' volume to 11 and am going to attempt to vomit onto you everything I know about how to make your blog better."
Escapable Loggic says that blogging is like Camp Fire Talk.
(Via Doc Searls)
This new chart from Comscore measuring traffic to blog hosts is already wrong since it doesn't even include MySpace.com.
A-List Blogger Backlash: Tom McMahon writes in a recent post:
When I first started I kept up with the so-called A-List bloggers because I thought I was supposed to. But as I went along, I found that Self-Referential Quid Pro Quo stuff ungodly boring and nauseating.
More a-list backlash here and here. And
Alfred at Cyberspace People Watcher writes that A-list links don't bring much traffic anyway.
And don't forget the BlogHer debate about women being left off the blogger a-list.
The L.A. Times has an article about Defamer.com blogger Mark Lisanti, who posts
about 12 times per day for a total of 3,800 posts to date. Lisanti, who is also known as Bunsen, also has his own blog at busen.tv. Blogebrity has
more about the Times' piece on Lisanti.
Jason Calcanis says
bloggers are unbelieveably happy at the Weblogs, Inc. Blogtopia.
Are you brave enough to post your Blog 101? These bloggers are:
Hollie's Bubble, My Lily Pad,
and Ultra Geek Online.
And still more here. MSN Spaces members in particular seem into this trend.
Rohan Pinto explains
blog popularity and how to guage it. Sharp as a Marble is
getting more inbound links but dropping in rank -- that hardly seems fair. Warm Stone says only a few of the popular bloggers have "remained humble and magnanimous in their victory."
Popularity is not forever. But the question is how did you maintain that popularity during your time without sacrificing your values, beliefs and individuality? If you are an upcoming popular blogger, would you choose to be popular at the expense of others, or at all times be magnanimous in your victories?
