In my last post, I described a new service that tracks what other sites are popular with my readers. I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but one such site is the brand new blog of Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran. It’s worth a look (but see the update below first)–in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
Bloggers on Blogging
August 11th, 2006 · Comments · Blogging
Following are links to interviews of popular bloggers in which they describe what they do–worth a scan if you’re thinking of starting your own blog.
Jason Kottke. Among other things, Jason was asked if his weblog has led to other opportunities. His reply: “Yeah, between kottke.org and my previous site 0sil8, I’ve gotten jobs, [...]
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How to Handle a Product Disaster
August 3rd, 2006 · Comments · Blogging, Policy
What should you do if your company’s product fails?
Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, had a miserable July due to multiple service failures. For a hosting company, this is about as serious an issue as there is. That said, the company’s explanation, posted on their corporate blog, is superb: they clearly describe [...]
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6 Blogs Worth Your Time
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments · Blogging, Startup Ideas
Given that Technorati now claims to index more than 50 million blogs, it can be hard to find new, high-quality sites. Here are six that I haven’t linked to or mentioned before–I think they are all worth a look.
Startup Review. Nisan Gabbay of Sierra Ventures recently launched a new blog that features weekly case [...]
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Five Ways to Improve Performance on Your Wordpress Site
March 27th, 2006 · Comments · Blogging
Slow loading sites annoy me. Given that this site was becoming increasingly slow and annoying, I recently made a number of changes and, as a result, performance is much better. If you run Wordpress on a managed host, read on. If you don’t maintain a blog or if you do so on [...]
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