About a month ago Ron, Bes and myself brainstormed how to honor those who take the time and effort to read our blogs. The idea formed Reader Appreciation Week. R.A. Week will be April 9-13. I am excited and will be participating 100%. If you’re a reader on FTSA now would be a great time […]

Several months ago I was in Barnes & Noble when this this little hardback book caught my eye. The Little Red Writing Book: 20 powerful principles of structure, style and readability. I keep it in my office near my desk and whenever I have a little free time I’ll crack it open and read another […]

Last week’s post regarding FeedBurner brought up some good points about displaying feed stats. As a test, I put up my feed counter to see if there would be any growth in my feed subsciptions. (I have seen a steady rise in subscribers, but I was already receiving steady growth so it’s hard to tell […]

In an effort to highlight sites I truly enjoy, without simply offering a giant mass of links on my sidebar I’ve been rotating the Premium Links. I want to say thanks to Josh, Dave and Ian for setting the bar high in the last rotation. I have four new sites I want to point out […]

Vizu Answers released their March 2007 Blog readership Report. Some great info to help you streamline your blog, and get an idea of what’s going on when you’re not looking. Not surprising that most people search for niche information, and the vast majority of people only read blogs. Did you know that readers look for […]

Here are the results from last weekend’s post. 24 different Bloggers submitted their sites. I have put each site into the categories given by the author. I tried to sum up some of the ‘random’ categories into broader topics. You’ll see that the lists are in order of largest to smallest. Also, several of the […]

If you’re new to Blogging I wanted to point you to some resources that can help you out. Even if you’re not new to blogging, I bet you will find a few new tricks. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so if you have anything to add please go for it in the […]

I have seen a handful of sites switch away from FeedBurner recently. (I, II, III) Ben from openswitch led the charge saying, “…in the interest of keeping Open Switch as self-contained as possible I’ve opted to simply offer up my standard WordPress feed alone.”
All this activity got my interest peaked. Well wouldn’t you know it […]