"Read and Comment" day.

Last week, Chris Brogan suggested that today, April 28th should be pronounced Read and Comment Day where we should all get out in to the blogosphere, find some good stuff and add your thoughts in order to progress the conversation. It’s a great idea and I intend to do exactly that but, in a sense, it...

Just because you use social media it doesn't make you a social media user.

In his post “The danger of social media falling in on itself” Steven Hodson argues that sites like FriendFeed could potentially kill the likes of Twitter or Flickr as more people interact with their contacts via the FriendFeed interface without actually visiting the source sites. While FriendFeed...

The lost art of listening.

Blogging is all about getting your point across and being heard isn’t it? Actually, no. As I have said before, the real point behind blogging is getting involved with the conversation which must be a two-way affair for it to work. As bloggers we become so caught up in our own opinions and the desire...

When to add updates or create new posts?

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger posted a few reader questions around the issue of when to update existing content rather than create a new post. I commented at the thread but wanted to share my full thoughts on the subject here as well. The relevant questions were as follows: Is it good practice to continue...

Permalink problems.

For some unknown reason the permalink structure on the blog became corrupted overnight so, while you could reach the home page, none of the post, page or category links would work (thanks to all those who got in touch to let me know). The issue should now be fixed – I had to force refresh the permalink...

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