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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.
As someone who’s been into the hospital thrice, partly due to being overworked, with heart conditions, I find the New York Times article on blogger sweatshops not only sensational but downright hilarious.
Here’s a newsflash. Everyone who is running his or her own company, who want to succeed, who’s going through rough times, who wants to be successful, will work too hard!
Is it good for you? Of course not, you need rest, nutrition, mental stability, and to have a good life. I know all about that, I’ve tackled the issue for years, and I still have lots to learn. That’s one of the reasons for the Feeling Productive blog, to help others get more done without ruining their health.
Thing is, blogging for a living is hard, and it will mean that you’re stuck behind the screen for long hours. However, being a games journo isn’t very different, neither is being a designer with deadlines, a programmer, anyhing technical today.
The article is a joke, a sensational pathetic piece. Nothing more.
However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the possible health issues your choice of occupation might bring to the table seriously.
Even more: The Blog Herald, BloggingStocks, Syntagma, Howard Lindzon, Mark Evans, and Techmeme
The best new feature in WordPress 2.5 isn’t the gallery, as you might expect. No, it is the native tag manager, something 2.3 (which introduced native tagging) lacked. Finally, seriously, finally! I can’t begin to understand why they added tagging functionality i 2.3, but didn’t give us the means to edit our tags in a decent manner? Anyway, remedied now.
Also, so far so good with WordPress 2.5! I just might upgrade a bunch of blogs tomorrow, we’ll see.
I have long said that ad sales is not a valid goal for most bloggers. Don’t get me wrong, you can earn some extra money selling ad spots on your blog, but to really rake in the cash you need a big audience. What you can do with your not so big blog, however, is get spinoff results. I didn’t have that many readers when I got my first freelance gig (for The Blog Herald incidentally, coming full circle now, aren’t I?), and I certainly didn’t have great numbers to lean on when Syntagma signed me up for redesigning their network templates.
The lesson here is that you can get spinoff from your blog way earlier than the ads are starting to pay for your coffee habits. Read more →
I’ll be doing one launch and one relaunch in April. The relaunch is obvious for dedicated readers, being the new BloggerTalks. It is due very soon, I’m just waiting for some content. The design is 95% complete, and I’m bughunting the code right now. I’ll probably do some last minute tweaks, but overall I’m happy with the clean, straight forward look I’ve given it.
The launch is a new site, titled Feeling Productive. It’s a blog on productivity, something I’ve got a lot to say about, as you may know by now. During the years I’ve been devising several ways to increase my productivity, and make my workflow be more fluid. I’ve made mistakes, learned things, and found solutions. Now I want to share.
So BloggerTalks is due very soon, and Feeling Productive is a bit further off, but both of them are planned for launch in April 2008.
There you have it. It’s always nice to share plans.
This blog is powered by WordPress 2.3.3, at least for another few minutes. I’m updating it to 2.5 now, so stay tuned for some weirdness. I’ll let you know here how it goes, of course.
Update! Right, so I’m now using 2.5. The upgrade went smoothly and everything seems to work. Sweet.
I’m leaving Wisdump, which I have been running for quite some time, in favor of, well, what? I’m not supposed to tell until tomorrow, but maybe I let it slip in my bye bye Wisdump post…?!
OK, so I did.
It was a fun gig, running Wisdump, although I could’ve gotten off to a better start, with it being pretty much run down and all. It’s a tough crowd, I guess, but I think they treated me nicely.
Anyway, thanks for all the fish and all that. I already did a goodbye post so go read that one instead. I’m off to celebrate!
WordPress 2.5 is out, and wordpress.org has gotten a new design. Nice. If I find the time, I think I’ll go against my own judgement and install 2.5 early on, instead of awaiting the 2.5.1 bug fix that is bound to come along.
WordPress 2.5 RC2 is out, which is promising. I’ll probably put this one on a demo blog if I have the time, or perhaps even here. The most interesting addition is the gallery functionality, including nifty upload of multiple files at once. If you don’t want to install the release candidate, which is better than beta but not quite full, you can check out Matt’s screencast which demos this well enough.
Sorry about your teeth man!