blogging

Make Your Blog Mobile

I installed the Alex King mobile plugin at Sybil’s blog (The Good, The Bad, The Unread) a week ago because I was tired of trying to access it from my smart phone and having to wait five years for the home page to load. According to Business Week, 80 million smart phones were shipped worldwide(…)

Squawk Radio to Close

One of the first and most popular group blogs, Squawk Radio, is closing its doors. It’s all speculative about why right now. It’s hard to blog every day and think of new topics. It’s a little surprising since they recently moved to this website and since they seem to have been redoubling their promotional efforts(…)

Congress to Support Bloggers’ Rights

There is a bill being proffered in both branches of Congress which would provide shields for bloggers who have anonymous sources. “The intent is that bloggers who are regularly involved in newsgathering and reporting, within the scope of that definition, would be entitled to the privilege,” Rep. Rick Boucher, one of the House bill’s primary(…)

Amazon does away with the Plog

Amazon does away with the Plog

Authors have been able to blog on Amazon and the results were then fed to your personalized blog which Amazon called a Plog. The problem is, apparently, that few posts ever made it to the reader’s Plog. Amazon has now eliminated the blog and implemented Amazon Daily. Amazon Daily is available to all visitors, not(…)

Should Authors Reach Out and Touch a Reader?

I was inspired by May's Romancing the Blog article on Saturday about group blogs. Many an author participates in group blogs and many participate in more than one group blog. But you know what many authors do not do? They do not participate in reader blogs. I find that many of the group blogs do(…)

2% of Amazon Business Referred by Blogs

Seems pretty miniscule but Yahoo only accounts for 3% of the referrals. The Market Sentinel points to the increasing voice of the consumer via the consumer’s ability to rebrand products. Via Market Sentinel. Send to Kindle

Blogland Is Alive with the Sound of Readers

First off, here’s my ebook tip of the day: Penguin hates ebook readers. Still no sign of Nora Roberts’ Valley of Silence. Last Monday, I blogged about a seemingly innocuous topic: websites and my opinion that all authors should have a professional looking one. Some authors believe that websites are unimportant in terms of overall(…)