Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Are You Trying to Make Money on Your Blog Without Ads?

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Here’s a question I’ve had for a while. How do you make money off of your blog if you are unwilling to use advertising? Can it ever be profitable? I’ve thought of a few options but I’m hesitant to pull the trigger on any of them because they don’t seem viable: Pay ...

dBlogIt has Moved!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

It is with great satisfaction that I present to you dBlogIt.com, the new home of dBlogIt! Yay! In addition to a place of it’s own I’ve moved the whole thing over to Movable Type (a professional publishing platform) in order to speed up page load time for you, my faithful ...

My Blog Blueprint: Part 3

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

As if I don’t already overshare enough it’s time to discuss the areas that will make this blog successful and the issues that are holding it back. It’s like I am a glutton for punishment. Yes, everybody, here are more of my shortcomings. Issues D. Keith Robinson, of internet fame, once ...

My Blog Blueprint: Part 2

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

This part of the My Blog Blueprint series will address my Vision and Goals for the blog. They still feel a little rough, but here’s what I came up with. Vision Within the next 2-3 years I would like to: Develop solid reasoning for “core competencies”, e.g. politics, religion, etc. Create an archive of ...

My Blog Blueprint: Part 1

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I’ve been growing discontent with my blog. The content, traffic, and discussion are decent but I feel unsatisfied. When I happened past the Strategic Blogging series on ProBlogger I knew that I needed a Blog Blueprint. I don’t intend on monetizing this blog in any way shape or form but ...

Thanks for Your Support

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who voted to keep the dBlogIt active. I’m in a little time of indecision regarding the blog. On the one hand I’ve been doing it for so long. I really identify with it, I enjoy the writing, and it’s a ...

Improve Your Blog By Spending More Time in the Bathroom

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

After more than a year I’ve finally managed to finish We’ve Got Blog — a first hand account of the origins of blogging. It’s a fantastic book. The only reason it took me so long to finish is because the only time I have to read is when I’m, ehem, ...

Where’d All the Non-Geek Blogs Go? Send Help!

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I’ve been looking and looking for some good, non-geeky guy blogs but you know, it’s really hard to find good stuff like that nowadays. I checked out the 9rules Network, and I should probably look a little deeper, but again, GEEKS. Geeks are everywhere. Now don’t get me wrong, I ...

I’m Supposed to Be Working But I’m Blogging Instead

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

82%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? The really sad thing about this is that I think I was doing most of the activities in this quiz while I was taking it. I would like to make some point about men and addiction or something like that, but I’m actually supposed to ...

Here’s An Easy Way to Earn Money Blogging

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

So I just signed up with Pay Per Post (PPP) maybe a week ago and so far I’m pretty happy with it. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the service, it’s essentially a way for advertisers to generate buzz, to promote their products ...

QuickPost Plugin for WordPress

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

QuickPost is a plugin consisting of a bookmarklet which will be added to your links toolbar, and a blog editor triggered by the bookmarklet. The options are inspired by the Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com) weblog system. It is a great service but it’s not Wordpress. I tried to create this post using Quick ...

My New Night Time Ritual

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

I’ve started a bit of a night time ritual. At about 10 PM, when Mary and the babies are asleep I get out the laptop, prop it up against my pillow, and read blogs until I’m tired. I love it. I’ve read about economics, recessions, the housing market, celebrities, blogging, ...

Controversy Helps to Define Our Beliefs

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Controversy brings traffic but, more importantly, it helps define our philosophy and views.…We don’t do this just to be difficult. We do it to take a stand for things we believe in…Matt. Conflict is good for business. 22 Sep 2006 [Online] Signal vs. Noise.

I Actually Learned Something From Clippy

Friday, May 25th, 2007



Fair Dinkum Phrases From Our Cobbers Down Under

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Our friends James, Danielle, and their daughter Zoe just visited from Australia. It feels like we spent most of our time eating but we watched a couple of movies, listened to music, and gabbed. Our poor girls were really sick most of the time, both Maddie and Zoe had to ...

Housekeeping

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Server Change Our web hosting provider moved our websites to a different server a couple of days ago and I didn’t find the notification email from them until after they made the move. We lost a bunch of email and this website is a bit buggy still. Sorry for the downtime. Posting ...

Don’t Do Dash-Damage­—Or, Hyphen-Hurt…

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Here’s a quick reminder regarding the use of dashes and hyphens: Use the hyphen-minus (-) as a hyphen or a minus sign. e.g. “That dog-man ate my wife!” or “10-4.298098= 5.701902.” Use the en dash (­–) for a closed range. e.g. “Please read pages 3­–389 by tomorrow.” Use the em dash (­—) for ...

Let’s Be Honest Here…

Monday, August 14th, 2006

From time to time Mary and I get comments from friends or family regarding how open we are on our blog. Most of the time those comments are to say “thank you,” however, sometimes they are to express concern. I wanted to address those concerns a little bit. What I have ...