Entries Tagged as 'Blogosphere'

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Is Blogging Blog Really Dead?

Leroy has officially retired this blog, but recently Garry Conn (Online Marketing) posted a comment that makes some sense. He points out that this blog is worth maintaining due to the good stats and that a post once a month would be enough to keep it alive. This brings up a great question: Is once [...]

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Tag - I’m it

I just got tagged by George - so I figured I better get this post up quickly.  I’m going to do my top 5 movies - so here they are, in no particular order.  I may miss some, as I have the memory of a goldfish ( which isn’t very good ) , but hopefully [...]

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Comments Revisited

I’ve written before about the power of comments, and how they can have a very positive influence on your success as a blogger. The comments you leave on other blogs are your mark on the world - whether you write positive, useful comments or negative, trashy comments has an effect on your reputation. [...]

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

No Time for the Old In-Out Love - Just Here to Read the Meter

Yes, I know it’s a great line from A Clockwork Orange, but I thought it would be a good way to say a quick ‘hello.’ I’m going to be posting something of substance here someday. I promise.
I’m incredibly busy right now and it’s not letting up much. In fact, I expect to get busier in [...]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Google Trends

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I have a post up at my “fun” blog, “16 Things Google Trends has taught me.” Check it out if you have a moment, and if you like it, Digg it!
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Video Blogging - the Future?

Everywhere you look, more and more people are jumping aboard the video blogging bandwagon. Matt Cutts, Google’s own SEO expert, has done quite a few video blog posts lately. Just this morning, I read a post at Problogger about blogging tutorials - in video format, called Tubetorial. Some are saying that video [...]

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Huffington Post gets $5 million in VC funding

One of the biggest, political blogs around has obtained a staggering amount of venture capital - $5 million. Not bad for a blog, is it? This just goes to show That blogs can be huge- if you put in the work.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere

Technorati’s quarterly State of the Blogosphere is back again.Here are a few of the highlights:

Over 50 million blogs tracked
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months.
175,000 new blogs are created every day
That’s 2 blogs per second.
70% of pings are spam
There are 1.6 million posts per day
That’s 18.6 posts per second.

These numbers are nothing short [...]