Pito’s Blog

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Have you noticed? How frequently I’ve been posting?

I am using WordPress’s ‘post in the future’ feature so in one sitting I can rattle off 6 or 7 posts (for example I am writing this one on December and schedule them for publication in the coming days.

Very efficient

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Recently there was a comment to one of my post asking the perennial question that non-bloggers ask of bloggers, (and bloggers ask of themselve all the time too

“Hello,
I was wondering if you could answer these 3 simple questions for a school project about blogging. It would be great if you could help me out. THANKS

1. How did you get into blogging?
2. What drives you to blog about something?
3. How has blogging affected you?”

If you search around you will find numerous people who have answered this question over the years, including my own self. So I won’t wax too philosophically but just give you my gut responses to these questions:

1. “How did you get into blogging?” I checked my records, and my first post was about four years ago.  At the time I was just fooling around, starting to read certain blogs religiously, and decided to see what the world looked like from the writers side. So, like many things I got into, it was pretty much an experiment, pretty random.
2. “What drives you to blog about something?” It varies. Often I discover something, figure something out, see something that piques my interest. Working solo, I don’t have the outlet that I used to have while working in an office to pop over to someone and share my insight, joy, amusement, amazement, whatever. No office to pop over to. So this blog becomes an outlet for that same impulse. Now that I have a (bit of) an audience (see all my posts about Search Engine Optimization) there are occasionally other motivations, like wanting to bring attention to something or someone by linking to it from this blog.
3. “How has blogging affected you?” I can’t say it has affected me that much. I go through spurts of blogging and not blogging and I always enjoy it. It’s kind of my personal scratch pad or notebook of stuff that I want to get out of my head and ‘down on paper’ and so it’s enjoyable.  Now that I’ve been doing it for several years, I have quite a public record on what I care about, believe, am interested in and so on, so, for better or for worse, this blog has become a significant component of my public resumé or reputation.

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Check out this post!

“Vitamins can help with the aging process as well as preventing premature aging. For more information on vitamins , you may want to visit Vitamins Explained. Vitamins A, E, C, and the B complex vitamins How To Approach Anti-Aging Treatments.

BlogBridge release 5.10 now with more vitamins (Pito’s Blog): Over on BlogBridge we just announced that release 5.10 just came out, you should try BlogBridge out! In the post there is also a review and explanation of the difference between our bi-weekly development releases and our full-fledged stable releases which come out every 6 or so months…[snip…]”

(from: Vitamins)

This is from one of my many SmartFeeds caught this in its net…. This purports to be a blog about vitamins, but obviously it’s robot generated and it deemed to pick up my lame joke about BlogBridge, now with more vitamins…

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I just finished writing a few brief tutorials that I thought might be of interest to you and, well, everyone. Please check them out - if you find them useful, please pass them on to your friends!

• “What’s the difference between a blog and a web site?” - That perennial question that people first discovering blogging often ask. My short and sweet explanation.
• “How to put a blog on my web site” - A brief explanation why anyone with a web site might want to consider adding a blog to it, and how you might do that
• “What are the best news blogs” - How do you go about finding the best blogs about current events?

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This is a question I hear all the time. I thought I’d write a bit of an introduction to the topic. Check out “The difference between a web site and a blog” on Squidoo.

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Today a major review came out in Robin Good’s influential Master New Media blog. It’s great to see this kind of detailed information about the work we are doing over at BlogBridge. Thanks Robin and Michael! Here is what they say:

“The result is a streamlined, easy-to-use, cross-platform feed reader. Now that it has also taken on publishing capabilities Blogbridge is going to save bloggers a lot of time spent copying and pasting data from one post to another. Joining the conversation just got even easier.” (from Robin Good’s Latest News)

You should definitely read the whole article because there is a lot of great general blogging information as well as screen shots and critical commentary.

Read “From RSS Reader To Direct Online Publisher: Newsmastering Away With Blogbridge“

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You might find find this interesting and/or useful. WebsiteGrader does an SEO analysis of your site and gives you ideas on how to make it better. According to their site: “Website Grader is a software tool to help measure the marketing effectiveness of a website.”

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If you blog, you might appreciate: loose wire blog: Bald-headed Britney and the Lost Art of Linking

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Check out this post from Scripting News

It’s Dave Winer’s 10th Anniversary writing Scripting News and Blogging.

Hats off Dave!

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Some people have such juice (i.e traffic) to their blog that they when
they sneeze, the blogsphere gets a cold. In this
post from Scobleizer - Tech Geek
Blogger: Scoble uses his clout to try and either force or embarass or
punish Om Malik for having only partial text RSS feeds, because, as he
says "I hate those".

"[…]Oh, and Om Malik, I’m putting a lot fewer things from your feeds
on my link blog lately after you went to partial text feeds. I hate
those. But it’s an effective way to get me to mostly remove you from my
link blog.[…]

(from: The
link blog effect)

So, what, is it "Link softly but carry a big stick?" 

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