I honestly had no idea how to react to this posting “milestone”. It came without warning, and with a stifled giggle, has been screen capped and posted here for my enjoyment. I have a particular love for making posts of silly milestones, as per my Twitter posts, so anyone who has glimpsed my blog in the past should of expected this.
Also, this is the most posts I’ve ever done on a blog; which I take as a good sign that I’m going to be able to stick with this in the long term.
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The other day, I bought the eBook 31 Days To Build A Better Blog, and it has given me plenty of ideas, and helped me lots in my blogging.
I love blogging, but often, in particular on my other blog WolfingTime, I have trouble coming up with new content. This results in either long gaps in my posts, or a complete loss of interest, which happened to a few of my other blogging endeavours. I’ve been determined to not let that happen again, but it’s hard. I’ve been reading other blogs to get ideas and helpful tips on blogging. The most helpful site of which I’ve come across is Problogger, which I coincidently came upon just after the start of a blogging program where every day the author posted a new task. These tasks allowed those involved in the program, or just the casual reader, to improve their blog with strategic exercises, and instructions on types of blog posts to make.
Reading it, I found many ideas that were completely unique to me, including an entire post on going shopping to improve your blog; despite being unusual, that was informative and quite a brilliant idea.
To top off how well done the program was, Darren Rowse made the entire thing available in the form of a professional looking 31DBBB eBook. Buying it set me back roughly twenty dollars, but it’s so far been worth it. It’s given me a reference for blogging that I can do in my own time; which in the case of WolfingTime is one post a week. It’s amazing because it even has several ways to get past writers block; which is evil.
As a final addition, Problogger encourages buyers to subscribe to an email newsletter which sends additional tasks for the program as time goes on, a nice little touch which keeps the 31DBBB fresh.
Being obsessed with blogs, it’s definitely a good cheap read for me, and it’s definitely worth plenty more than what it’s being sold for. I’m really happy I bought it.
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Today as a bit of fun I decided to write a small series of reviews of blogs that I read. Sounds simple enough, so I made it interesting for myself; and posted them on Twitter. One blog per tweet, thus meaning I had less than 140 characters to work with. I had the tweets done already, and had them scheduled roughly 30 minutes apart using the handy TweetLater service since I had to work during the time I planned to do this.
So, tweeted blog reviews where the tweet had to be short enough to fit both a URL and the #blog140 hashtag? Here’s the results, in order from first to last tweeted:
Today I’m going to point out some blogs I found that were well worth the read, either because they were funny as, or rather informative.
Colours and Light is a stunning blog that makes me cream myself when I visit it. Oh and the articles are good too http://is.gd/wzFd #blog140
It was a fun experiment; if you saw this, what did you think? Did you end up clicking any of the links? Did you do so now that they’re posted here? And does anyone know an easier way to display a list of tweets besides copying each one into a table?
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Well, it’s been 4 months of semi-regular posting on this blog (slightly longer if you include the previous incarnation of the blog), so I thought it was time to ask some questions for anyone who reads it. It’s just a simple “what do you think” questionnaire. The blog is nice, but I’m always open to criticism and comments. I’ve always been of the school of thought that the only way you’ll get it is if you seek it. So here we are. If you would could comment some answers, I will lick a car battery, or something (look at number five :P)
So yeah. I’m just hoping someone comes up with something interesting for number five. I do enjoy being a complete idiot.
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