Today marks the one-year anniversary of my blog. For your benefit, here are 10 things I’ve learned over the last year that your blog should have…
There’s an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, and it applies to new media too. Presentation is an important part of a good blog post. An appropriate, good quality photo can add context and interest to your post (and humour, too, if you like).
It can be hard, though, to track [...]
My advice: if you don’t want to work and create quality content regularly, don’t start a blog.
Here are 14 plugins I currently use on DaveFleet.com and why you might want to consider using them.
Twitter’s reliability recently has been… well… awful. During the introductions to the opening day of Toronto’s Mesh Conference yesterday, I suddenly thought: “What happens if Twitter goes down (again) today?” On a whim, I decided to give live-blogging tool Cover It Live a try.
I worry about people launching headlong into ill-advised, poorly thought-out initiatives, getting burned and not coming back for more, just because it’s the ‘in’ thing to do.
February 16, 2008 – 2:22 pm
The International Olympic Committee has ruled that athletes at the Beijing Olympics will be allowed to write about their experiences during the games.
They’re referring specifically to blogs. If you’re not familiar with blogs, in this context they’re essentially journals that are available on the web.
According to the BBC, this is the first time the [...]
February 6, 2008 – 10:26 pm
My thoughts on Mitch Joel’s take on the Ford Mustang and Scrabulous controversies recently. Generally spot-on in my view.
Note: recorded half-way through a 22km run, so (a) the audio is bad and (b) I’m out of breath.
January 21, 2008 – 12:08 am
In the last little while I’ve seen a few worrying slip-ups in the wonderful world of the blogosphere.
First up, on December 30, 2007 the Washington Post reported that the Recording Industry Association of America sued a man for copying his own CDs onto his computer. With a story like that, it’s not surprising that a [...]
