Archive for April, 2008
I just published this week’s interview on BloggerTalks, talking to the new Blog Herald blogger, Arvind Satyanarayan about Movable Type. It includes comparing it to WordPress, talk about Six Apart Services, and more.
The interview article is titled Movable Type or WordPress - Arvind Knows What He Prefers and Why and I think you should read it.
I’ve upgraded the BloggerTalks front page to what I had in mind all along, I mentioned it in the 3.0 beta launch post. The idea was and is to have a clean straight-forward approach, focusing only on the most recent interviews. Clean and lightweight, the way I like it. Read more
Have you ever been the editor of a site or magazine? Then you know how much time is spent brushing up people’s contributions, removing silly errors, sometimes fact checking, and even doing occasional formatting. I know that most blogs allow authors to proofread and publish their posts themselves, and it is good for the content flow, but bad for quality. We’re doing that on The Blog Herald, a site built on news and feature posts being more or less longer news, and it’s the only way to do it. Unless you have a proofreader sitting on standby all the time, it’s just not possible not to have this kind of posting procedure. Read more
I’m enjoying a cup of coffee while taking the new version of desktop blog software Blogo for a spin. It’s still in beta, but I’ve been granted access by Ben over at Brainjuice, and at first glance there are some great improvements. You might remember Blogo from my desktop blogging article over at Devlounge.
I used to love newsletters, and one of the first serious online publications I had was an e-mail newsletter. Through the years, I’ve used newsletters to promote stories, sell stuff occasionally, but more importantly to get that direct connection to actual people. So let’s take a look at a recent Amazon newsletter I received, and see how it stands, shall we? Read more
I’m officially looking for a new host, having finally had it with A Small Orange. They have great support, and I love the control I have over my account, but at times my sites are going up and down like a yoyo. I can’t stand that, it’s a total buzzkill when it comes to blogging. I mean, here I have a great interview with Ankit over at BloggerTalks, and then the server starts coughing. That sucks. Luckily, this time the downtime wasn’t so long, they usually get everything up pretty quick, but it’s just too often for me to feel secure and confident with them.
That being said, I am indeed working on next week’s interview for BloggerTalks, and hopefully getting it out of beta (i.e. fixing some silly stuff and getting the real front page up) as well. After that, I can concentrate on Feeling Productive as well, and give this blog the TLC it deserves. After all, I can’t blame a blog for taking down servers at ASO, now can I?
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I wrote a bunch of posts for The Blog Herald this week, which is fun of course, but not really a fair representation of my work as the editor of the site. There’s a ton of things behind the scenes, and honestly, I don’t think that the public will see the fruit of my editorship until after the redesign. That is, unless you counting me killing the Kontera ads, of course…
These are my top 3 posts by yours truly this week:
Number 2 is a good example of how to chop up a story, and by doing that giving it more focus.
I just released the beta of BloggerTalks 3.0. Stay tuned for the first interview in a little while, today if I’m lucky, otherwise tomorrow.
Update! A new interview is up: Mark Elliot Cullen: 366 Songs In One Year - check it out!
Here’s a good idea. If you’re going to write freelance articles for me, and we agree on a price, don’t send 20+ e-mails back and forth with pitches, drafts and ideas, and then tell me you can’t do it. I should bill you for my time spent.
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