blogging

To click or not to click: Blogs and ads

Drupalace — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:08:49 -0700

This post isn't about Drupal development, or even web dev. It's about web browsing, something we do even more than the previous two activities!

The world of Internet marketing's head guru, Seth Godin, made a short post claiming Ads are the new online tip jar: if you come across great stuff in a blog, Seth recommends, give one of the ubiquitous ads a click to thank the blogger. In his words:

If you like what you're reading, click an ad to say thanks.

"Uh oh", I thought, "that's going to raise a ruckus." And it did.

Testing the Blogging Clients #2: Review of MarsEdit on Drupal

Drupalace — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I have an old, short post about testing blogging client MarsEdit with Drupal. A blogging client is a stand-alone application that posts to your blog or other website; the advantage is that you write and edit in a familiar word processor-like application, without having to log in to your site, navigate to content creation, and work with your site's text editing features. And let's face it: as much as we like our Drupal setups, logging in, creating a new Blog Entry or other node, and manhandling TinyMCE isn't ideal for catching those fleeting epiphanies all lightning-quick.

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 7

Drupalace — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:58:23 -0700

Continued from the previous quintet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

http://www.squidoo.com/blogstarter

This time, a change of pace: I'll look back at all the past Checklist suggestions I undertook, implemented, or otherwise subjected myself to, and report on results.

Yes, results! That's what makes the world go round. Results put the spin in the globe, the worm in the tequila, the... uh... the drupe in Drupal...

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 6

Drupalace — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Continued from the previous quintet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

http://www.squidoo.com/blogstarter

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 5

Drupalace — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Sorry for the silence; the Ace has been traveling for a while. It's back to the blogging deck to deal a new hand.

Continued from the previous quartet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 4

Drupalace — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 3

Drupalace — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:33:45 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

I still have unsolved issues from last time: namely, what exactly one does with Feedburner and Technorati. Your advice would be a huge help, oh Reader!

On to the Checklist, starting where I left off:

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 2

Drupalace — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:25:05 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 1

Drupalace — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:50:08 -0700

Rajesh Setty is a blogger whose name you'll run into without much effort. He's the man behind the Life Beyond Code blog, a site commanding one of the coveted feed slots on Drual Ace's Google Reader.

He's created a Blogging Starter Checklist, which is great for people like me who have enough knowledge of this "blogging" thing to get up and get started, but whose knowledge gaps leave a palpable sense of flailing about and missing important steps. Running through the checklist, every item spurs me to one of three responses: