In “How to Find Your Tribe in One Word” by Liz Strauss, she wrote about how it is too easy to feel separated from society by the actions often not of our choosing. Lots of folks have lots of reason for feeling we’re on the outside. It’s almost overwhelming. The world can seem to be o...

Reading the blogosphere coverage of both Google and Facebook launching their own data portability programs - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect - I realized one thing: there is at least one type of services that can be seriously damaged by general availability of both programs to website own...

As we continue with this series on blogging jobs, it’s time to look at the income a blogger can make by blogging for pay. The skills and qualities a company or blog owner is looking for from a blogger are extensive, far beyond just writing abilities. As with any freelance job, determining how ...

Loren Feldman, of 1938 Media, has put an end to the Shel Israel puppet game. In his post from Saturday evening entitled Open Letter to Shel Israel: It’s Over, Feldman announces the end of the dispute to Shel: When I first started my career, you made it a point to bury me online, and more impor...

Phil Burns is a blogger who I recently became aware of through Robert Scoble over this past weekend. He’s a father of eight children on the west coast who writes extensively on technology issues at Phil801.com. His company also makes some blog related products as well. On May 24th, Phil wrote ...

David Peralty has written an interesting post about weeding about bad staff over at xfep. A key quote: Not everyone is committed to being an amazing blogger, and I understand more than most how hard it is to not only write content, but also promote it, and actively communicate with those in your nic...

The worst part of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) is that I now have to add over a hundred feeds to my feed reader. When you are in a room with over a hundred of the most powerful, exiting, socially aware and responsible, and enthusiastic bloggers, your feed reader count ...

I just find this very entertaining, enough so for me to actually waste about ten minutes of my life to write about it on my blog. What the hell is up with 125×125 button banner ads on blogs? They are a sickness, a disease, they’re Satan in a digital dot Com form. LOL!!! Seriously, it was ...

I try not to cuss on my blog. Every once in awhile a few minor curse words slip out, but overall I run a G-Rated blog. From time to time, it might be PG-13; however, compared to some other blogs that I read, this blog typically caters to virgin ears. Do you cuss and swear and use filthy words on you...

Blogging about making money online doesn’t make money… Well, for me it doesn’t. I totally understand that I have hundreds of readers who need help and want to learn how to make money online. I totally feel for you and want to continue helping. If you are a regular reader, you may h...