You might have noticed, or rather not noticed, that I’m awfully quiet right now. That doesn’t mean that I’m out of words or ideas for blog posts, it is more a matter of Work Overload after the holidays. The inbox is full, clients are screaming for updates, and so on. As you might know, I’m not the kind of freelancer that works over holidays or even weekends these days, so that is probably pissing some people off even more than they want to acknowledge.
And then there’s that whole recession thing. It is starting to hit me, actually, with no less than four cancelled projects in two months’ time. Not good, but I’ll manage of course. Read more
Age of Conan is an excellent MMORPG, I’m totally addicted, which is fun. I’m playing with a couple of friends of mine, fellow Swedes, so we figured why not blog a bit about it?
Enter Living Hyboria. For now it’s just a simple pre-release beta-thingy, but it’ll get its own design soon enough. Expect a couple of updates each week.
I’m moving servers at the moment, which is one reason why it’s so quiet here. Not the only one though, working like a madman to get everything up and running the way I want it, which includes tdhedengren.com and BloggerTalks, as well as some other funky stuff. Balancing this with client work isn’t always easy, you know.
Anyway, I’m moving servers now, so expect downtime or no-updates-time at least, for the next 24 hours or so, depending on exactly when the tech people get to work.
Thanks for your patience.
Update! This is done now, looks like it’s working properly as well. Nice work, A Small Orange.
The internet is a lovely place. Here you can find collaborators, fans, writers, publishers, morons, bloggers, designers, silliness, and just about everything else. Everything is here, and the door is open for anyone who want to get started in online publishing, be it blogging or more traditional websites.
Problem is, it’s a very anonymous place, and it is full of people trying to make easy money by posing as freelancers, submitting content that are rip-offs or even straight copies on other people’s work. Read more
It’s awfully quiet here, isn’t it? Yep, it is, I’m busy, really busy actually. There’s a lot of things that just don’t show very well at the moment, designs and work behind the scenes. I’m really hoping to have some stuff for you guys soon, including my plans for this site. The current version was ever a placeholder, as you’ve probably gathered by now.
But that’s not what I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to let you know that this week’s interview over at BloggerTalks is up now, and it’s a good one: Colleen Coplick on PR and Getting Famous
Colleen’s the new blogger at Buzz Networker, and she’s got a background in the PR industry, so why not talk PR with her? I did, and the interview tells a lot, to quote my The Blog Herald news post on it:
[...] Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great press release, and more.
Check it out, it’s a pretty good read, I think.
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 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 enjoying a cup of coffee while taking the new version of desktop blog software