Archive for September, 2006

Replying to comments and email

As a problogger, one of the things that people probably like doing is commenting on your blog or sending you email. Some probloggers achieve celebrity status and as such, it might be difficult to handle all the emails, the comments and the spam. (Oh, yes, the spam—it is one of the most difficult [...]

On joining blog networks: Be careful what you sign up for

Times like these, we see probloggers all over the ‘net. Different topics have different bloggers making reviews or talking about their personal experiences and sharing their views on different matters and issues. There have been listings of jobs for bloggers and maybe some of them I have only noticed a year ago. In [...]

Blogs and RSS: Full text or just excerpts?

Do you have RSS available for your readers? What do you give? Full text or excerpts? This question is something that came up as people discuss their thoughts on sploggers. After all, some of these splogs mainly rely on the feeds they could scrape from. Personally, I could say that [...]

Track down the sploggers?

Stop the sploggers!

There’s a buzz around Bitacle.org, a Spanish-based site which aggregates different feeds from all over the Internet. The site has been the object of contempt and currently it is inaccessible. Maybe it got Dugg? Or there’s too many people who got curious and tried to access it with or without [...]

On blogging, history and changes

Here is a quote from David Ben Gurion:

Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

You, the blogger, are writing your memoirs and the history of whatever trend it is you are following, as well as the spirit of the times. Sometimes as you make these comments on [...]

Looking for blogger jobs?

There are different blogging jobs online. All you have to do is search a little bit and surely you will find something. There are different opportunities out there. Sometimes, you’d see listings for bloggers, sometimes for writers. Either way, it’s actually not that difficult to get some jobs for you especially [...]

Exercise, the problogger and health

There are different kinds of probloggers. There are those who work from home and blog all day. There are those of you who probably go to some office or something similar so you could focus on writing. And there are those who have day-jobs and set aside time for blogging. If [...]

Making your profile available on your blog

One of the important things you have to have on your blog is your profile. Your need to establish your credibility and one way you could do that is to publish your resume online or have pertinent information on your about page.

There are people who are looking for background information about you might as [...]

Blogger meet-ups

Pro-bloggers of the world unite! Well, more like pro-bloggers in the city unite! Don’t you ever wonder who has been linking to you? Or who you have been trackbacking to?

There are so many faces behind blogs. Sometimes you would even find out that there is only one person behind several of [...]

Punctuations and blog entries

Have you ever gotten conscious about the way you write? Have your commas lost their way? Or maybe you have had too many apostrophes? You know, the times that you wrote “it’s” instead of “its” when you meant to use “its” because it is the possessive form of “it.” Then again, [...]