Blogging and Power Laws

The proprietor of Simon World compliled a huge list of blogging tips from his own experiences and those of other bloggers entitled, "Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask." This caused Glittering Eye to take a look at the traffic, start dates, links, and professions of the TTLB Top 20.   Blog Date started Links Traffic 1 Michelle Malkin June 2004 6,171 86,967 Journalist 2 Instapundit August 2001 6,119 127,741 Academic 3 Daily Kos May ...

25 Pieces Of Advice For Bloggers

John Hawkins offers "25 Pieces Of Advice For Bloggers." They're worth heeding if you're trying to launch your blog into the "big time." Whatever that is. See also my Blogging Tips category archives, which collect various similar commentaries from myself and around the blogosphere I've collected over the last couple years.

MT Stylesheet Help

I'm moving my own site from Blogger to another url, and I'd really, really like to keep the design the same as it is, but modifying the free Movable Type templates is proving to be way more time consuming than I'd imagined. If you think you can help, please drop a comment and I'll email you. BTW: my ...

Blog Traffic Metrics

Warning: What follows is likely of no interest whatsoever to non-bloggers. And maybe not even to bloggers. Recently, N.Z. Bear wrote a piece at TCS analyzing the decline in traffic that most blogs experienced after the election. A footnote at the end of his piece provides an important disclaimer: [I]t should also be noted that not everyone in the ...

Building a Better Blogtrap

Michele Catalano has a long post explaining why she gets to blog about whatever she wants to, how to increase your chances of getting her to link crap you've emailed her about, and her rules of ettiquette for link whoring in her comments section. I pretty much concur with everything she written and would add: I beg of you, don't send ...

Climbing the Ecosystem

Dean Esmay tries to answer the "How do I get my blog noticed?" question that seems to pop up with some regularity. The answers haven't changed much since the last time but new readers and bloggers keep coming along. I would also add a version of the advice sage golfers give to the "How do I improve my ...

Link Policy

I woke up this morning to an e-mail threatening to reveal to "the entire blogosphere" that, when mailed a request to be added to my blogroll at 17:44, I might not comply by 23:21. I hereby confess to this transgression outright. Apparently, Steven Taylor also received the same messages, proving that we're both "immature." I must say ...

Blog About Boring Stuff

In his TCS column, "Blogging: The Next Wave" Glenn Reynolds gives advice to wannabe bloggers: There are lots of political/national security blogs ("warblogs" as they're sometimes called, though most of them spend a lot of times on non-war subjects). There's always room for another, especially if it offers special insight: either in terms of knowledge or location. But there's no ...

ONE YEAR BLOGIVERSARY

As of 9:37, this site is one year old. My, how time flies. There have been a total of 4763 entries and 9611 reader comments (not counting those on the old Blogspot site using backBlog). That's a lot of content! The critics seem to agree that, of all the sites out there, this is one of them: "LOTS OF ...

BLOGGING TIPS

If you're using Movable Type or another program that uses multiple pages to store your blog, be sure to put your visitor counter(s) on every page. Every now and again, I notice new blogs or ones that have recently moved off of BlogSpot where the only counter is on the main page. This will fail to count any ...