tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336642222011-04-21T13:57:32.572-04:00The story of a blog, from birth to...?Emily DeVoto, Ph.D.,http://www.blogger.com/profile/15360761251097036916noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33664222.post-18643073691766299342007-01-12T14:13:00.000-05:002007-01-12T14:18:48.347-05:00

Problogger.net looks like a pretty professional site. I'll see what I can find there that's helpful.But I'm still feeling the sting of Guy Kawasaki's recent revelation that he made less than $4K last year from his blog, which is at about number 45 in Technorati.

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Thanks to my friend Bureka Boy for his suggestion to look at Blog Bloke for more blogging hints. (Bureka Boy's blog looks much nicer, to be honest...) Anything to keep this one going; I'm still looking for that magic formula for hundreds, thousands of dollars a month in passive income. I'll keep buying an occasional Powerball ticket as well.Don't get me wrong, though, I'm also working my

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is gmail down for the whole world?How did I let myself get so dependent on it?Sigh.

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Here I am, sunk in NaNoWriMo hell (to be honest, today went a little better), and now I find about NaBloPoMo.(What's she talking about, anyway? you ask.)NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 crappy first draft of a novel in, yes, 30 days (I've got the crappy part down, for sure). No prizes, no competition; if you finish, you win... well, you win a sense of

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I clicked on writingspark.com just now and heard a highly annoying buzzing sound; I figured there was a problem with the code somewhere. But no joke - there really was a bug: an ad with a buzzing mosquito, which you were supposed to slap (i.e., click on the ad) in order to win a free laptop (yeah, right - once you've given away all your family secrets and financial information). Sure enough,

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It's an outrage, I know; I haven't posted here in almost a month. Technorati doesn't seem to be recognizing my posts in the new beta Blogger anyway, so maybe no one will see this, but I have something to share here.It's a recent post by Steve Pavlina, who convinced me a few months ago that I could make money from blogging. I did almost all the things he told me to do and, well, the last time I

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It's an outrage, I know; I haven't posted here in almost a month. Technorati doesn't seem to be recognizing my posts in the new beta Blogger anyway, so maybe no one will see this, but I have something to share here.It's a recent post by Steve Pavlina, who convinced me a few months ago that I could make money from blogging. I did almost all the things he told me to do and, well, the last time I

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43folders.com is another lifehack site (read: personal productivity), and I think I like it better than lifehacker.com. Clearly they're direct competitors; lifehacker.com has a lot of cute webby stuff and some highly annoying glib health recommendations, one of I mentioned in my health blog today. As a web effort overall, I like what they're doing at lifehacker.com, as well as the fact that the

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A 43T friend has recommended the blog Lifehacker to me twice now, and I have to say, it's just an all-around great resource for keeping up with new and cool web stuff. Here are a few posts relevant to blogging: a comparison of blogging software and how to start a blog.The posts mostly have links to other people's sites. In other words, it's something like this blog would be were it ever to

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Every day, you should learn something new. That's what I tell myself when I find that I've blown three hours surfing, checking my blog stats, reading 43Things, etc.; I can rationalize it all by finding something really cool, especially if it's worth sharing with others.Like trackbacks.I keep seeing these trackback links in the comments area of people's blogs, and wondering what they're for.

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I came across (and adopted) a goal at 43things.com called "Get more people to read my Blog." There were well over 600 people with this goal, which surprised me; not sure why, but it did. Apparently people are blogging, and thinking about this question, but they don't appear to be working too hard at it. Comments left there are mostly along the lines of "Gee, only 2 hits a day. This sucks."

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Remember the other day when I was all worried about having non-Google ads on my blog? Well, this morning I found a link to this blog in the NY Times home and garden section, and I'm not worried anymore. She's been around since 2004.Pretty cute stuff, too. Now I just need to think about who might want to advertise with me, on any of my three blogs.Food for thought! (No pun intended, I swear,

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Here's a link to Andy Wibbels' website about blog-based businesses. He's selling a bunch of products. There are some impressive claims here, e.g., making over $10,000 a month with your blog.I've made $6.14 so far. My impression from watching my stats is that people by and large do not click on ads.I'm sure I could use a little help, but jeez.On the other hand, I do have some ideas for content

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This carnival stuff works. Or maybe my expectations were just really low. I've had 103 unique visitors today at The Antidote, most of them linking from yesterday's carnival site (and 15 or so from a thread on a health forum site called Webmagic, which hosts discussions on everything from lymphoma to collecting old Coke machines.Now I'm about to do something for which I hammer on the

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I submitted three posts this week to a blog carnival; turns out that's simply a blog post, in which a volunteer blogger summarizes and gives links to a bunch of other people's posts that have been submitted to him/her. Pretty easy to do. This one was called Skeptics' Circle Carnival #44. There is at least one more on my radar screen, a medical blog circle. I think hosting such an animal would

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On a walk this morning I walked into a news shop that a wide range of magazines and newspapers from all over the world. They had a rack with about 20 computer magazines, mostly about gear, and a couple about general design. I was hoping to find one focused on Internet knowledge, web design, etc., but nope. As I walked on I fantasized for a few minutes about filling that niche, wishing I knew

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and Technorati won't pick up my last two posts, even after repeated pinging from within Technorati. This is partly a test to see whether Blogger is actually notifying them automatically.By the way, it's hard to edit html using Firefox because the search function won't look for anything longer than two characters. Is there a complaint department?I'd also like to know how righteous web dude Guy

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Wow. I'm sure I'll pull myself together and find a few words as I always do, but for now, Wow is a good place to start.According to a blog post by David Sifry, founder of Technorati, the blogosphere is doubling every 6 months. There are 50 million blogs on Technorati; English just passed Japanese as the most common language. (My inkling would be that the Japanese blogosphere is leveling off,

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I signed up for Technorati, but no one told me that unless I tagged the individual posts with descriptive categories, people searching for content wouldn't find them. Fortunately Improbulus, another Blogger blogger, had a great article on how to do this. So I went back and added tags to all my Antidote posts. I'm hoping that today's entry, based on a Washington Post article, will be referenced

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My two blogs are now up and running! I suppose I could have started with just one, but I'm a little wired these days for some reason. There's something about having outlets for writing that makes me want to, well, write, but also to learn what I can about this new medium. Oh, and right after I published my first post I got an email from the aforementioned career mentor Penelope Trunk, who had

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I don't remember the first time I heard about blogging. It was probably 3 or 4 years ago. Seemed like a fad at the time, though I found a few blogs I admired, notably The Julie/Julia Project, which documented one woman's adventures cooking her way through the writings of Julia Child; Julie's attitude was infectious, and far be it from me to turn down a healthy helping of gastroporn.Fast forward

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