The other day, in a Cre8asite Forums thread, I wrote the following as a tip for blogging: DON’T: Attack other bloggers. Although the flame war is an age old online communication favorite, the person who starts it always loses. Just don’t do it! Criticizing an article with a reasoned argument is GREAT – that’s dialogue. Attacking somebody personally is a big no-no. And yet, I recently found myself on the defense because I did attack two people in a blog […]
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Uglifying a blog, or increasing usability?
Christian Montoya recently posted his Top 10 Ways to Uglify Your Blog. I take issue with most of his points – and so I’m setting out to refute his opinions. It’s clear to me that Christian is writing primarily from the perspective of a designer, so I’m going to make a point to address the issues from a usability and marketing perspective. I’m not disagreeing with every point; let me make that clear – but I will address all 10 […]
Continue reading “Uglifying a blog, or increasing usability?” »So…what’s a blog?
There’s an interesting tendency amongst both the techno-literate and the less technologically savvy to look at the "blog" as a separate creature from a website. I’ve heard a wide variety of perspectives; ranging from clients trying to decide whether they wanted a blog or a website to experts discussing blogs in a separate quantification than so-called normal websites. Just look at the titles of articles – Programming your Blog or Website, Collect Data on your Blog or Website, or How […]
Continue reading “So…what’s a blog?” »Running To the Hills and Year in Summary
I’ve made a fuller post at my other blog, but the gist of it is that I’m going on vacation starting next Wednesday – and I’m also moving. So, although I’d hoped to be able to keep up with posting right until the last minute, I’ve simply run out of available time in the day! So, this blog will be, essentially, on hiatus until approximately the beginning of August. There’s some possibility of an occasional post, but it’s very unlikely. […]
Continue reading “Running To the Hills and Year in Summary” »Ask’s New Diet: Blogs and Feeds
From the Ask.com blog, There’s Blogs (and Feeds!) In Our Search!. Ask has just announced a neat combination between their search technology and the data from Bloglines. The coolest thing they’ve provided are a set of features including a quick site preview, a direct link to subscribe to the site’s feed in Bloglines, Google Reader, MyYahoo, or Newsgator from the search results, and a quick "socialization" of the article to Bloglines, Del.icio.us, Newsvine, or Digg. Simultaneously, they’ve unleashed new search […]
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