Archive for May 8th, 2006

Avoiding Idea Theft

Monday, May 8th, 2006

We’ve all seen our content on other’s sites, and with a link back, I am less likely to get annoyed. Although, when I see a full reprint of my article along, and if that seems to be the only thing on the blog in question, I do think they’ve gone beyond fair use.
Lorelle points [...]

Popular Sites

Monday, May 8th, 2006

One surefire way to get your blog noticed is to produce sometime that’s useful and popular.  Some people can do that with their blog content.  However, staying on top with merely content is difficult.  And, how do you drive the readers TO your content in the first place?
Take a look at the PR Blog list.  [...]

YPN and MySpace

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Yahoo! Publisher Network has recently made the news for killing some publisher accounts that utilized MySpace to show their ads.  This was an attractive strategy as YPN’s clicks are often 2 or 3 times as hefty as AdSense ads. 
However, because AdSense seems more relevant, it still seems to be more effective on a traditional [...]

RSS Promotion

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Christopher Salazar has 5 reasons why Corporations *should* embrace blogs. He says:
Informal Blogs create "trust"

Customers want to feel safe with companies
Establishing trust enhances relationships
Relationships will bring business

Take a look at his 4 other reasons Corporations Need Blogs.  Particularly I agree with #4.

RSS Publishing

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Some of the more popular sites have taken to releasing mobile versions of their feeds.  In fact, last year Bloglines, the most popular feed reader, released a mobile version of it’s web-based feed reader.  Attensa even offers a feed reader that’s a desktop version that syncs with a web version and a mobile version. 
USA [...]

Frappr

Monday, May 8th, 2006

I’ve seen more and more podcasters use traditional blog tools to network with their listeners.  One such tool is Frappr. 
Frappr is a photo+geo mashup.  Using Google maps and Flickr (now a Yahoo! product), you can ask your listeners to pinpoint their location on the map.  When they do, you are left with:
A map of [...]