I stumbled onto the post An Open Letter to Every Man Who Reads a Woman’s Blog via The Art of the Simple Life the first time I ever read that blog. It struck a chord with me and I ended up writing a 400+ word comment. I thought that comment would make a good blog…
Category: Blogging
Items relating to blogging, and Reactuate itself
How Old is Reactuate Exactly?
I was looking at the blog today and noticed the calculation I talked about in the post How to Add a Running Total of How Long You’ve Blogged To Thesis was broken. The days were negative for one thing. I decided I better update it. I don’t know if PHP has changed since then, or…
How to Add a Running Total of How Long You’ve Blogged To Thesis
UPDATE 04/04/2013: There’s some much easier code for this now. Check out the update post How Old Is Reactuate Exactly? Doing some maintenance on my various blogs and remembered I used to have this code in my footer that showed how many years and days I’d been blogging. Spent way too much time looking for…
Making iTunes Subscription Easy
I’ve got two podcasts, one for model photography and the other for EMTs. They are both in iTunes, but it can be something of a pain to find them. Sure a user can search for them by name and they show up, but you’d really like them to be able to just type something into…
Twitter Is Ephemeral, Blogs Are Forever
One thing I’ve learned recently is that twitter traffic and twitter tweets are transitory. I heard recently that all your tweets go away after 2 weeks on twitter itself. I haven’t checked that, but the fact is no one cares about your tweets after about a day. And the search engines sure don’t care. But…
5 Things I Learned About Twitter, Blogs & Traffic
I have a podcast called “The Photographer & Model Podcast” and yesterday I got to wondering who were the most popular interviewees. So I pulled out Google Anayltics and looked to see which show pages got the most traffic. Last night I had a ranking 1 to 10, but I realized this morning that I…
$250 Blog Writing Contest – Write a Fable
OK, it is short notice, but I just found out about it today. Write a fable blog post and submit it by tonight.
Best Premium WordPress Theme Deal
My wife has three blogs. And the amount of content she puts out through those three blogs is amazing. One is specifically targeted to teachers of college English and she wanted it to look really good. She looked through all the free themes she could find, but nothing was all that good. I had heard…