Earlier this year when the one-man-powered thisiscolossal.com announced that he was going full-time with his site, I became convinced that for a blogger to make a living off his site is to publish at least two blog posts per day. Christopher Jobson publishes about two to four posts about fantastic art per day on thisiscolossal.com. …
Blogs used to be the central place for people to share points of view. Status updates have moved to facebook. Link sharing has moved to twitter. Photo sharing has moved to instagram. What is left for blogs is a place to spread corporate agenda. Why? Chris Thilk gives four points in his blog post, “Blog writing …
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Newspaper sites have a problem. They have an immense amount of visitors coming to their site from from google. Sounds like a a good thing? It is. But that’s only half the picture. These same visitors visit one page and then leave. We’ve all done it as readers. If a newspaper site puts all their …
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The queue is now called “my list” in netflix. Why would netflix change that term? Six possible reasons why Netflix changed “queue” to “my list”: 1. The general public not know what queue means dictionary.com defines queue as: queue [kyoo] noun 1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind. 2. a file or line, …
Does Google indexes the text in images on webpages? We were all taught that text in images is bad for SEO, because Google can’t index the text. However, having an Evernote Pro account makes me think differently now. I upload all my screenshots to Evernote, because it can index the text in the image and …
I scoured the internet for social media plush toys. This is what I found, Social Media Plush toys.
Tempted to make tumblr the home for your articles? You might think about having your work on the 18th most visited website in America (via Alexa). A couple more stats to entice you: The average visit to Tumblr is 14 minutes, longer than Twitter or Facebook Tumblr has grown 74% in 2013, compared to Twitter …
In 2012 20.02 percent of tweets with links to major news sites came from Twitter buttons. In 2013, the usage of the buttons dropped to 12.61 percent Joshua Benton of niemanlab does a great job pulling these stats and offering five explanations why: People are more comfortable manually copying and pasting a link into a …
Our household names of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Linkedin, and Youtube. Can anyone replace them? David Meerman Scott of webinknow.com says, no. While I certainly hope for the success of the current crop of social media giants, nothing is set in stone. In 2005, we would have said, “there is only one MySpace.” Twitter has …
My company’s manager posted this infographic on Google Plus: The organization in this graphic is very intriguing. I wish there would be more insight into the overlap in related areas. Perhaps the fact that some items are roots and some are branches, speaks to the related functions. Also email marketing and social media are very …
Bing loses. My three-week experiment using bing as my primary search engine is over. I couldn’t stand to go a full month. The results on Bing were just too spammy. Google’s results are so much more trustworthy. All of Google’s efforts to cut-down on content farms and suspicious pages really does pay off. While I …
Offering content targeted to a reader’s interest is a cornerstone in publishing. Publishers should do it. Twitter should do it. I wish users of Google Plus would do it. But does the truism of target content have some cracks? If people keep seeing content covering the same topic over and over, it could get watered down …
It’s ironic that the introduction in the book “How to Write Short” is too long. The table of contents is not viewable in the Amazon preview, because the introduction goes beyond the word limit. Regardless, I love Roy Peter Clark’s “Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer.” In my quest to become a better …
Websites can be so bloated in comparison to laser focus of apps. “Websites will become the AM radio of the Internet.” claims George Colony, Chief Executive Officer of Forrester Research. Jay Baer (NY Times bestseller) notes: Why would I (or you) wade through an entire website that must try to serve the disparate information needs …
Injecting humor from time to time in your content marketing strategy is a good way to keep yourself relatable to your readers. However, as TechCrunch recently learned, be careful that you don’t push your humor–and your trustworthiness–over the edge by publishing a parody story misinterpreted as reality. Poytner reports: TechCrunch published a piece by Ryan Lawler …
We are very lucky to be living in this time. The variety of ways of watching video is simply amazing. Right now we currently have broadcast stations, subscription-based cable television, youtube free-for-all, high-quality vimeo, streaming ustream channels, and video podcasts. Then we got things like chromecast to push video to tv. Apple TV and netflix …
When it comes to looking through images, Google’s layout of rows is much better than Pinterest’s layout of columns. Google is very organized and easy to scroll down and look at all the images in a sequential manner. The rows keep all the various images in order. The Western world reads left to right, so …
When there is a trending topic, do you want to gather together all your friend’s thoughts? We’ve got facebook, twitter, and blogs. But man, everything is scattered all over the place. Wouldn’t it be nice to see everyone’s thoughts in one place? With feedly you can get all your trusted source’s opinions on a specific topic, …
Do you know how often you visit particular websites? The New York Times counts the number of their articles you view in a month. When you get close to the limit of 10, a cute little unobstrusive box appears in the lower left of your browser stating, “You have read 9 of 10 free articles …
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We live in a world where content is not sorted by topic. Tweets are sorted by person. You can’t view tweets by topic. People on Google Plus never post to topic-based circles. Pinterest automatically subscribes to you to all boards by individuals you follow. You can clean up your pinterest to have just the boards …