Category Archives: Blogging

Posts about or relating to blogs, blogging and bloggers.

The Hypocrisy of Doing Tech Product Reviews

July 18, 2008 – 6:41 pm

If there is one thing that will start off a firestorm in the tech blogosphere faster than you can say oh shit is the mention of a tech blogger doing a product review of just about anything. While most of the time if one provides the usual caveat that the company provided the review [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Hype, Internet |

Once more for the Windows Live Writer Team

July 18, 2008 – 2:12 am

I have made no secret about how I think that Windows Live Writer (WLW) is one of the all time great applications put out by Microsoft. For me is you are a Windows users and a blogger you are making a big mistake is you aren’t using WLW. A long with a great product [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Software |

The Sorry State of Linking & Attribution

July 16, 2008 – 9:47 pm

If you ask any blogger what they think the very blood of what keeps the blogosphere alive is and the large majority of them would probably answer – links. Whether it be links to outside posts or to point to where quotes have originated from links have been the very basis by which we [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Sorry Rob But Rankings Are Here To Stay

July 14, 2008 – 8:46 pm

It never fails.
Really it doesn’t. Whenever a new Web 2.0 or social media service starts getting a lot of attention someone somewhere will figure out how to create a ranking scale for that service. The latest incident to get everyone’s pundit shorts in a knot is the new Frienderati addition to Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Social Media |

Who Is The Target Audience?

July 14, 2008 – 11:59 am

One of the basic tenets of blogging that is stressed over and over is to write quality content. Do that and over time the readers will find you. Sure we might do things like post links to our posts on things like Twitter or FriendFeed and some will get their digg patrol to start [...]

By Steven Hodson |

The Old Dull Thing Is The New Shiny Thing (or deconstructing the Calacanis email newsletter)

July 13, 2008 – 4:48 pm

Prior to Web 2.0 and the rapid proliferation of things like blogs, social media and social networks the most common way to communicate with people was by using newsletters. While one could manually update static web pages things like newsletters were easily created and could be sent en mass to the people who had signed [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Hype, Internet, Social Media |