blogging Posts

Nov 26, 2008

I noticed a great post by Seth Godin in my feedreader this morning entitled "Death of the personal blog?". There are times when he nails it right. The origin of what we call blogs started as personal diaries, but like everything they have changed, grown ...

Nov 18, 2008

Something is rotten in the state of the blogosphere. Perhaps you have noticed that there has been a trend with some popular bloggers lately, you visit their blog and instead of being greeted by their well written, compelling content you are greeted by a ...

Nov 6, 2008

I like social media and I have accounts at most of the social media sites including Digg but I have been wondering lately what it is about Digg that causes me to not be an active participant in the site. Being a bit of a stats junkie I have ...

Oct 31, 2008

I don't know what prompted a comment I got this morning from a visitor/reader about my post about our Halloween pumpkins, maybe it is because it is Halloween, or maybe they are just having a bad day. I won't say who sent the comment but here is small quote (I ...

Oct 24, 2008

You pour your heart and soul into your blog. You work hard to come up with new and creative ideas to write about and keep looking for your purple cow to make your blog stand out. Then you go and look at your statistics, and discover that no one is ...

Oct 18, 2008

One of the things that has always bothered me about using Blogger.com as a blogging platform is how limited it is for adding extras to your blog such as a top posts widget. Sure it has gotten better, but if you use their FTP publishing service you are still limited ...

Oct 8, 2008

I wanted to get back to writing the beginners guide to blogging. It has been a little while since I wrote on this guide and it can be difficult if not impossible to write a definitive guide for beginners to start blogging. While ...

Aug 27, 2008

There have been a number of transitions in my life lately. Most notably we packed up our house in Rosthern, Saskatchewan and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan so my wife could take a new position in the city. It has meant a great deal ...

Aug 5, 2008

When I was a kid I used to hate watching television in the summer. Looking back that was probably not a bad thing since it got me outside and playing, but the reason I hated watching television during the summer was because all of the shows were reruns. I ...

Jul 16, 2008

You have been doing lots of reading, and you are now at the point where you know you want to start a blog. The next step to start blogging is to decide what you want to blog about. What will your blog focus on? Personal Blogs If you ...