Category Archives: Blogging

Hacked Again.

So, I was jazzed to write something new yesterday — the topic of which, I can’t even recall now — when I realize that the blog had been hacked again.  Yes, I am guilty of not upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress (was running 2.5), and probably a host of other security laziness.  Anywhoo, [...]

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Is Blogging Dead? (Wait: Is It That Time Of Year Again?)

The “is blogging dead” meme (although no one has the chutzpah to call it what it is) rears its interesting head today over at the FastForward Blog — and much like other memes about blogging (there is / is not an A-list, your blog really is / is not a blog if you have / [...]

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Does Not Leaving Comments Matter?

Louis Gray spent a lot of time crafting a satirical post on the alleged “exchange rate” between comments and other means of interacting with a post — launched in part due to Allen Stern’s public bemoaning of a lack of comments thereof, and who is not alone in voicing there support for comments-on-blogs.
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The “Real” Dan Lyons Could Never Exist At Newsweek — Or Forbes, For That Matter

You may have heard that Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyon was forced to yank a couple of posts — and that he’s threatened (or may have actually) left his blogging post over the fact.  Although Valleywag does a nice timeline and decries the loss of another “real” voice in the tech blogosphere (note to Valleywag: [...]

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Boomers Aren’t Using Social Networks, And Blogging’s Simply Off The Map.

Interesting study from Third Age / JWT Boom, which shows how people over the age of 40 (presumably in North America, although there’s no mention that I can find of where they’re from) are engaged with social media on the Internets: the bottom line is that they’ve embraced email (in spite of the cacophony of [...]

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Dear PR Firms: Please Have An Angle When Pitching To Bloggers

So, if you’ve been blogging for any stretch of time, you might get contacted from time to time by public relations firms on behalf of web entities looking for a mention.  I know I do.  Perhaps I’m not so important that I get included on some lists and not others (in fact, I think that’s [...]

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Blogging Is Not Dead (Or, “Jason Calacanis Is A Narcissist”)

In what is mostly likely to be the most *douchiest* thing that has ever been written by Jason Calacanis, he now declares blogging “dead”.
The funny thing is that this particular meme has some legs under other titles, such as “the evolution of conversation”, or “the further maturation of blogging”, or “the atomization of attention”.
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