Do NOT read this if you don’t want to know anything about any episode of Battlestar Galactica. You have been warned. Every time the latest episode is shown in America, someone - lots of someone’s - puts copies of it onto the internet for people like me to download. Episode 15 of the second season is due out this week. It’s so far away from reaching TV in New Zealand that most people here don’t even know there’s a second season yet! Admittedly, most of them didn’t even know the first season was showing last year….
You might have noticed I’ve set the blog network up already. Or you might not have… Anyway, every single one of my blogs now has the ‘blog network list’ at the top of the right-hand column, with each blog linking to every other blog in the network. However, they aren’t all the blogs I’m playing with. There are others as well, but I’m building up the content for them. When they’re ready, I’ll introduce them.
There’s going to be a bit of a change in how I post. Instead of posting multitudes of different topics on this blog, I’m going to spread them out amongst different blogs. Let me ask you a question, which I hope you’ll answer for me in the comments to this post. Do you want me to give you a teaser of a post I do on another blog, with a link to it, or do you want me to just not post anything about it on here, with the assumption that if you’re interested, you’ll be visiting that blog anyway?
Or maybe it began some time ago, and I just never noticed.
I saw this little tidbit about a German executive dismissing blogs as ‘the toilet walls of the internet’, and, as is customary with me, I could feel the outrage rising.
So then I went and read the ‘anti-blogger movement’ article. I was amused to find that the ‘distinguished’ advertising executive, Jung von Matt, was forced to publicly apologise for his anti-blogging comments, which included:
What on earth gives every computer owner the right to exude his opinion, unasked for? …and most bloggers really just exude.
Problogger.net has a great article about this, which you can read most of the details at. To summarise, here are the points that are mentioned.
Topic popularity Choose a topic that people are searching for. For example, new services, products or trends can be of benefit, as interest in them will be high at the start. Be the first to blog about it, and you’re taking advantage of its initial popularity.
Topic competition and narrow niches Choose a topic which has very little or no competition, where there’s no one else writing about it, or if there are, they’re of poor quality. Make sure you’re better than them.
I’ve created a new website specifically for publishing the story Federation’s End. Click on the name to go there. All future posts will be done on that site and not this one, so please bookmark or subscribe to it via RSS if you’re interested in following the story. Thanks.
I’ve just been thinking recently about what I’m doing with this blog, and the others that I’ve created and experimenting with. This blog, Life Through My Eyes, was an extension of my online journal and all those various topics that are of interest to me. Over the past few months, however, I’ve been creating other blogs for other reasons, mainly for more focused content, and exploring the value of those more specialised blogs. Some of the content I’ve been working with on this has been transferred over to their own blogs. I realised last week that I’ve been creating a ‘blog network’, and now I’m looking at how I can take advantage of that too. Mainly by allowing each blog to focus on its own focused content, and yet each blog promoting the network, allowing people to move around amongst the blogs wherever their interests take them. I’ll be working on that concept over the next few weeks, developing it better than what it currently is.
Straight away you must capture the reader’s attention with the headline, or title of your article. If you’re not sure what to write for the headline, then wait until you’ve finished writing the article. The theme of the article can help you decide what the headline is going to be. Keep it short, but descriptive. Use important keywords. Poor beginning
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