Category: Blogging

  • A benchmark established for blogger responsibility

    A significant event happened yesterday that embraces freedom of speech, blogging and notions of responsibility for one’s actions. It concerns a blog post written by Rod Liddle (a journalist), published on a blog run by The Spectator (a weekly political…

  • Ghost blogging: Just don’t do it

    A topic that’s guaranteed to provoke some passionate opinion is that of ghost blogging: whether it’s right or wrong and whether you should do it or not in a business context in particular. I have written about it before, most…

  • Paying attention to your referrers

    I was just studying the stats from Google Analytics that display within my blog’s WordPress admin dashboard, and noticing where visitors tend to come from. This isn’t geographical so it’s not countries I’m talking about. No, it’s the referring site…

  • The art of writing great headlines

    How much attention do you pay to the headline of a blog post or other content you write? I always think that the headline of a blog post, newspaper article, news release or other piece of written material is the…

  • Writing on The Next Web

    Yesterday, I posted my first post on The Next Web blog. It was a cross-post of one I wrote here on my own blog. Interesting to see the popularity and global reach of The Next Web demonstrated as that first…