Renaissance 2.0
Everyone is going ga ga over twitter these days but it reminds me of a similar communications craze that swept the country way back in the 1970s when I was tiny little Pai. I’m talking about CB (Citizens’ Band) Radio which reached its peak of populariy in 1975/1976 with the hit song “CONVOY” by C.W….
As much as I love Twitter, the sad truth is that its strict 140-character limit is both its strength as well as its weakness. The trick is learning when to use twitter and how to use it. It truly has evolved into its own form of communication with its own unique rules of grammar and…
Clustrmaps is a free widget for blogs that simply shows you where in the world your readers are coming from. There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles, just a nice visible view of your audience. It updates all the time so the map isn’t that out of date. It’s really easy to embed the…
Why are some blogs popular and others not? Obviously, the best thing any blogger can do to make their blog a success is to write excellent posts consistently. However, even the best written blogs will languish in obscurity if the blogger does not perform some promotional and marketing tasks to spread the word about…
Here’s a quick and easy (and free!) way to see realtime stats on the number of people visiting your website or blog: http://whos.amung.us They don’t describe themselves as a page counter, but as a people counter. http://whos.amung.us/learnmore shows how to add a counter that shows live visitors These other two widgets work with the…
So many of us are blogging these days, but I wonder how many of us are actually backup our work. Sure, we can create blogs outside of the website in a word processor or in an online office suite as I do with Google Docs, but most bloggers are creating their work right there online within…
Unless you were living under a rock the last year or actually had one of them there things they call a life, then you know all about Twitter. In any event, whether you are new to Twitter or a seasoned veteran, here are some cool and hopefully useful links to checkout: www.Twitter.com is grand central…
Circavie is a service that lets you create visual timelines of anything you want to document online. Each entry can include hyperlinks, images, text and even comments. You can navigate the timelines via the arrows at the bottom of the screen or by clicking anywhere on the timeline and scrolling left to go back in…
NPR has an excellent segment on the 10th Anniversary of the term Blog on their site. People were “blogging” more than ten years ago, but it just wasn’t called blogging back then. I called what I was documenting online a personal journal because I refused to call it a diary. 🙂 I remember using LiveJournal…
We all know about the valuable use of www.TinyUrl.com , especially on the 140-character limited Twitter platform. Well, there’s a new sherif in town and its name is MooURL! You are probably wondering why would anyone even care which url shortening service they used? The answer is simply because MooURL offers more options. One is…