I suspect every blogger aspires to publish original content. Unfortunately, in a world where original thoughts/ideas no longer exist, this is virtually impossible. Maybe I am making this up, but I think it is only a matter of time before thoughts are appropriately republished. It’s like fashion. This year’s hip style was trendy in one [...]
I vividly recall creating my Windows Live account and wondering how many folks are able to guess the 8 character CAPTCHA on the first attempt. I swear the CAPTCHA presented to me looked like random scribbles in a box. I did take screen shots but they seemed to have disappeared just like my patience on [...]
I used to get random emails asking when Johnny Coder was going to start blogging again. Well, I guess I knew I had been away too long when people stopped asking me where I was… Over the past few months, I shifted directions. I left a 60+ hour/week lead/management consulting gig and have since taken [...]
Jon Galloway is determined to write three posts a week. I think it is a great goal — one which I wish I could meet. This past weekend, he wrote about “aspiring to be the dumbest person in the room” and how “more active participation in a group can lead to more information, but that [...]
Now that I’m a dad, I had to laugh at the comic below, but the truth is these fighting words aren’t going to come out of my kid’s mouth. “My blog gets more traffic than your blog” is more likely. This will, of course, be accompanied by a heated exchange of blog statistics served up by a [...]
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I spent most of my day working through approximately 750 unread posts which had piled up over the last couple of weeks. It was an enjoyable way to spent a good portion of my Sunday, but I’m exhausted and I’m hopeful that I’ll never fall that far behind again. I came across several articles of [...]
The way I figure it, I potentially have two types of readers.First, there is a group which reads my blog because they actually find it interesting and/or educational. These readers learn something from me — or they are at least inspired to continue to learn on their own. As for the second group, my blog provides very little [...]
With the attention that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google are getting for agreeing on a standard sitemaps protocol, I figured it was probably time I got one in place which meets standard found on sitemaps.org. Though I’m sure I would have had a lot of fun using the Google Sitemap Generator Python scripts recommended by Google Webmaster Tools, [...]