Posts Tagged ‘ blogging ’

I find it interesting that many of the scholars and intellectuals of centuries past were, in effect, bloggers: I want to start with a page out of history—the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, taken from one of his notebooks on religion. The words on this page belongs to a long and fruitful tradition that peaked...
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Dear reader (if I may call you that in an avuncular 18th century novelist manner) … This is one of those posts in which I use my blog as both a personal and public record of something I want to remember … using blogging as more of a personal database than a public communique....
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I hate gossip rags at the checkout counter, and my opinion is no different when the medium is a blog. But I love this post on 8 things bloggers can learn from Perez Hilton by Marko Saric. The fact is, Perez Hilton is a fantastic success story. According to Saric, here’s how he got...
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It’s hard to imagine, but WordPress is now over 5 years old. A French blogger, Ozh, posted images of WordPress’s admin interface on his blog in December. I just saw it now, but wanted to see the images in a single presentation deck so that you can flip through them and see the differences...
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Posting a link that does not go to where a reasonable web surfer thinks it will go is annoying, tacky, and perhaps even dishonest. Here’s what I’m talking about – a recent story at ReadWriteWeb: In fact, in the first paragraph, there are no less than 7 links – and no less than 7...
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Five times in the past 3-4 weeks I’ve written and published a post on this blog only to come back a day later and see it not actually published and live. What’s going on? The question in my mind is: am I actually publishing the post or just hitting Save? As you can see...
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Check out http://scoblerizer.wordpress.com/ versus http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. That’s Just another little reminder from the universe that URIs were never designed for humans. And that identify theft is all-too-easy online. It’s somewhat amusing … whoever started the scoble-like blog started blogging on April 13, 2006 with a classic “I’m blogging at last” post, and apparently ended that all-too-brief...
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Seth Godin has a short post about how to sound smart (or not) when talking about techy stuff. A reader named Jackson chimed in with this: A blog is the whole, and a post is just one article (like the one you’re reading). So you don’t say, “I wrote a blog about that,” you...
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Just got this email: HELLO, COULD YU KINDLY LET ME KNOW THE UNIT PRICE OF THIS SPARK PLUG ….. Model: 5466 SKU: 578096…SPARK PLUG.. AWAITING FR YOUR RESPONSE ASAP, BEST REGARD, SUSAN LOPEZ Hrm … I better get back to her on that right away.
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My good blogging friend Leo Bottary asked this question on LinkedIn Answers: Describe the mindset one needs to be successful at using social media tools? Here’s the answer I gave: There’s a few qualities that come to mind: some familiarity and comfort with technology some commitment of time to engaging with social media a...
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Leo Bottary is back blogging again, at CSI season two. (That’s Customer Service Insights, of which he has more than a few.) As Leo mentions, he’s finished his masters degree (lucky dog, I’m still in the middle of a long tough slog) moved to New England, and switched his corporate allegiance from Hill &...
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WordPress automatic upgrade absolutely rocks. Upgrading WordPress every time there’s a minor security update is a major pain the you-know-what … but WordPress automatic upgrade takes all the pain out. Here’s where to get it; here’s the site of the people that made it.
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If I ever want to kill any readership of Sparkplug 9, I know exactly how to do it. I’ve received written instructions in the mail. Email, actually. I recently received one from Kim Tompkins, a “junior media buyer” at Red McCombs Media. It’s a proposal any self-respecting blogger would swiftly upchuck at: Hi there,...
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Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. Or else maybe I don’t suck up well. Either way, I hate the kind of blogroll that is stuffed with A-lister links. Yeah, I love Seth, and Scoble, and a bunch of other blogs. And when I really like something, I’ll probably save it to my delicious or even write...
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Last night my wife Teresa stumbled on a photography blog by the daughter-in-law of one of my co-workers, Rachel Ludwig. That lead her to I Lay Me Down To Sleep, an amazing organization that works with photographers to donate their time and expertise to give families who lose children a few precious memories of...
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