Blog Media

Social media killed blogs. Yet there are still, and maybe even new compelling reasons to maintain a blog or personal website in 2024 !...

Do you remember the days where you'd carefully read through everything your RSS aggregator collected for you? Do you still do that? Do you even open your RSS aggregator? Do you even use one? Chances are you're using twitter by now. 140 characters max…...

By now you must have seen quite a few of those BlogRush widgets in blog sidebars... Heck, there's even one on this blog. I've put it up almost when it launched despite my skepticism about why the blog world would need yet another badgy widgety thing...…...

Matt from WordPress was holding a casual WordPress meetup in Paris today. I thought I should drop by and say hello... Meet the legend, you know! (Do you realize WordPress and b2evolution actually both spun off the b2 blog software at the same time?)…...

Fom blogworldexpo.com: Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog. More than 147 million Americans use the Internet. Over 57 million Americns read blogs. 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons…

Unique IPs / 5 minute intervals My post on iPod car integration got slashdotted last night. That really caught me off guard! It is pretty incredible how fast the hordes of new visitors arrived. I only noticed about 1 hour later that the server had…...

I recently heard Anil Dash put it in this very simple way: "A blog is a way to connect with people you care about." And it has nothing to do with technology, feeds, etc. It's quite another approach compared to my own (alternative) definition of…...

How do people usually define blogging? They tend to say that it's about organizing posts by reverse chronological order. That it's about writing in the first person. That's it's about being more personal. That's it's a social thing. That it's about…...

Corante [broken link] makes a wise point comparing blogs to tamagotchis: If you don’t feed them, they die. If you don’t clear up their crap - comment spam, for example - they die. They’re more fun when there are other bloggers to play with, just like…...

Every blogger gets to do that once in a lifetime (ahem, I mean "at least"): I searched for my firstname in search engines... Surprisingly or not (depending on how much you know about web indexing techniques), I am famous, very very famous! #1…...