It is important to keep your blog readers and website visitors interested in the information you share. Coming up with creative and eye-catching ways to grab the attention of online users is extremely crucial in having people visit and return to your site. Infographics are a great way to visually share data on a website or blog and they will keep your community interested in what you post. This infographic from Diyblogger comes to us via Used Cars Long Island and explores “The Infographic Life Cycle”. Click to enlarge. Hat Tips: Kia Vallejo…

There is a definite connection between women, social media, and blogs, but not many businesses are aware of it. Reading articles about how women are dominating the internet is one thing, but knowing how to use what you read to your business’ advantage is another. So what is the connection between the three? — Trust. …

Microblogging platform Tumblr has seen exponential growth in the last few years, and there’s no sign of slowing in sight. Tumblr now generates 6.5 billion pageviews each month from its 30 million blogs, making the site one of the most formidable players in social media. Tumblr’s steady growth has also attracted new venture capitalists. Yesterday, the company announced that it had raised $85 million from a financial round led by Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, and the Chernin Group. Richard Branson, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital also contributed….

When AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, I had to chuckle at the news reports calling it a blog. Most classify news sites like HuffPo, Mashable, and Engadget as blogs because there really is no other way to classify them right now. They’re not considered mainstream news sites because they’re not attached to an entity that existed before (or whatever other reason you want to use to tag them as blogs). Still, how can sites that get millions of visitors of month and who pay their writers and editors still be considered blogs? Let’s look at how Wikipedia defines a blog: The original “Web Log”…

So, once again, we are hearing about the end of blogging. This time in comes in the form of a New York Observer article. Among others, the piece quotes Gawker’s Nick Denton whose massive blog empire is undergoing a very non-blog redesign. It essentially argues that the blog is toast because people have other outlets for oversharing, and the cult of personality – in which people read blogs for or about specific people – has been overtaken by social media. Fair enough. None of this, however, means that the blog is dead. Instead, what it means is that the role of the blog has changed. Yes, its importance…

The blog — once full of affinity, originality, and creativity — is now filled to the brim with animosity, mediocrity, and futility. So what happened? What has become of the blogosphere that I once knew and thoroughly enjoyed? Going back a few years ago, it was not uncommon for yours truly to read hundreds of different blogs in a single day. It was amazing to have the opportunity to read a myriad of unique perspectives that I never had been exposed to before. Everyone had something to say, and everything they said was interesting. As such, clicking that “subscribe” button was incredibly addictive…

I’ve always been a fan of the internet’s perpetual refusal to be governed by an ‘official’ body. The internet today, as I mentioned last week, largely resembles the American Wild West: player pianos, a keen interest in poker, bandits, and a whole lotta rules routinely broken by the people, whenever it suits them. But be that as it may, the internet grows more orderly by the day, and impressively, it does it on its own, by the power of its users. Remember your first GeoCities page? Could you remember mine, while you’re at it? I think I was Sunset Strip. Anyway, user-generated content has…

The rise and fall of the blog is a heavily discussed topic on the Internet. Many are quick to claim that social media is killing blogs; that blogs are no longer important. But this isn’t the case. The truth of the matter is that blogs have done far more harm to themselves than anything Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, or any other social media site could have ever done. And, if anything, these sites provide more exposure and opportunities for bloggers. Destruction From Within But all that doesn’t take away from the fact that blog growth has been slowing. There are also quite a few theories…