As a blogger you strive to get your written words distributed on as many blog sites as you can, especially if you are looking to have your name publicized and associated with certain niches, communities and subjects. You already know that remaining “stale” or “stagnant” is not an option as a writer; in fact they just might be two of the most despised words within the blogosphere.  Although you need to spend a lot of time learning and finding sources to promote you (if you are a serious writer), after finding a blog that will publish your words of art, then is the moment it should become about…

There are a lot of us out there who love to write and enjoy sharing our written work with the world. On the internet, we are referred to as bloggers for many of us create posts we place on blogs we own. We love spreading the news about editorials or breaking stories we have written and encourage feedback on the articles we have posted. …

A blog is a place where you express your thoughts, opinions or provide tips, suggestions or editorials much like this article. Allowing readers (a.k.a your community) an opportunity to respond is vital since their voice should matter to you as the writer. Although it is necessary for you to enable the ability for your blog community to have the option to participate in responding to your articles or not, the debatable question is often should you moderate comments on your blog? …

You have the world at your fingertips. Social media is our most recent progression in the history of our communication and yet, some people are still unaware of what social media entails. Many people get hung up on social networks that they think that is all there is to social media and nothing more… they could not be more wrong. Interacting in a public forum is a form of social media, I would even go as far as saying that MSN Messenger and AOL were early adapters to the shifting within our communication, the one on one chats to the chat rooms of Yahoo. Social media began in small spurts and progressed…

Note: This post was transcribed using an Android voice recorder sent via email. Total edit time: 3 minutes. I was speaking to a friend today who had a very interesting concept that I thought he should share. I asked him if he had a blog and he told me that he did not. When I asked him why he didn’t he told me that he’s okay with speaking about a subject but putting it “on paper” doesn’t work. My first thought as an old school journalist was to use a tape recorder. Transcribing later is an easy option if you could speak it first and then type it later. Then I remembered that Google and other companies have excellent…

For years, the Gawker network, which includes Gizmodo, io9, and Kotaku, has fought a battle against commenters, particularly trolls. The huge blog network is driven in many ways by the comments on the site and founder Nick Denton doesn’t like it. He went so far as to call comments on his sites “a joke” at SXSW and said the promise of thoughtful discussion never materialized. “It didn’t happen,” he said. “It’s a promise that has so not happened that people don’t even have that ambition anymore. The idea of capturing the intelligence of the readership – that’s a joke.” Now, they’re going to try to reinvent…

Blogging can be rough (from a #firstworldproblems perspective, at least). You’re constantly being attacked for your opinions, bashed for your mistakes, and ridiculed for your presence as one of the biggest failures on the internet. I deal with it every day. Sometimes, it’s hard to muster the gumption to put words on the screen. As a parent, the education system in America has also been a source of angst. The list of problems with schools, parents, and the students themselves often makes me want to be a homeschooler. It makes it more difficult knowing that the internet offers so much potential as…

Posterous, the creator of a simple blogging service via email, has dramatically shifted its focus. The company now revolves around a new product called Posterous Spaces, which allows users to privately share photos and videos with friends or family. With Spaces, Posterous will compete less with other blogging platforms, such as Tumblr. This could be a wise move for Posterous considering that Tumblr just announced it had surpassed its 10 billionth post, and over the past year the service had grown from 7 to 28 million blogs. At one time, both microblogging services were growing at a similar pace,…

Although Tumblr has only been around for about four years, the microblogging platform now hosts most blogs than Wordpress.com. As recently as January of this year, Tumblr was home to just 7 million individual blogs. However, that number has ballooned to more than 21 million blogs today. While Tumblr’s growth has always been impressive, it hasn’t come without pitfalls. Last December, Tumblr experienced a monumental crash, causing the site to be down for approximately 24 hours. Since then, the company has focused almost entirely on scaling. New features were put on hold as Tumblr hired executive…

Microblogging platform Tumblr has finally launched its own ‘Share on Tumblr’ button, following in the footsteps of other popular blogging and social media services. Tumblr’s share buttons will allow users to share content on their Tumblogs as a link, pull quote, photo, or video embed. The buttons are a bit overdue, considering that Tumblr now attracts 26 million visitors per month globally, according to comScore. Despite their tardiness, the multi-faceted ‘Share on Tumblr’ buttons are just as user-friendly as the microblogging platform itself. With the launch of this product, it…