Category Problogging

In Which I Have No Clue, Return to My Roots and Turn The Site Red

Blogging on iFranky hasn’t really been a priority in the last 18 months and design was only one of the reasons. The main reason though was because I really didn’t have a clue, not about the focus of the site or about my life.

The time at Emmaus Preston was rather limited and even though I was happy not to have to deal with that board anymore, it has taken me around a year to reorganise and refocus.
Refocus and return to the colours of my roots: Racing White Daring Molenbeek, the first club I played football for.

I am no person who stands still for a long time or will whine about how miserable life is, but as the years slowly accumulated I certainly needed some time.

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Blog Advice from a Journalist Who Started as Blogger

Last weekend while chatting with friend Thord D. Hedengren I joked about one of the things I learned over the last 4 years, dealing with pro bloggers. The bloggers who will write tutorials how to get traffic, how to promote your blog and similar crap. Of course I could not not twitter my joke:

What I learned from ‘pro bloggers’: Gimme a topic & within 3hrs I’m an authority all while BEING drunk!
Lots of work for me to become ‘pro’!

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What’s Wrong With Blogging (P1)

Dan Cederholm. Expect more to come on the title over the next weeks.

“I’d like to post here more often — not just to fill up bits and bytes, but to write again. Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise “99 Answers to Your Problem That We’re Telling You You’re Having”. Yeah. I’d like to get back to that here.”

How much do bloggers get paid and valuable application advice

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Andrew D. Rosen asked an interesting question today over at the Blog Herald: how much do you earn per post?

Many people nowadays wonder how to make money from blogs, some still think we can get rich doing nothing, sitting at home naked.

The truth couldn’t be more different.

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Mavens, Connectors and Content Creators

In a further evolution of my online presence, career, I am glad to announce that both I and Jayvee Fernandez have taken on new positions within the Splashpress Media network.

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Improving Your Online Presence as a Music Artist

Lately I have been doing quite some consulting for small local bands looking to improve their online presence and take it further than the compulsory Myspace page. I have resumed the basic principles of what small (or every) music artist should do to build their brand online.

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Guest Lecture About Blogging at UCLan

I had the occasion to guest lecture to Computer Science students at the University of Central Lancashire about the importance of blogging.

The main focus of the lecture was the importance of blogging for computer scientists for their future career. I briefly touched the history of the modern internet and blogging, mentioned the difficulty of making money with blogs online before pointing out the importance of a blog for programmers, developers and designers.
I decided not to release the podcast but publish a slightly more in-depth entry instead

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Blogging is a Meaningless Verb

John Gruber on blogging.

There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.

About That Snark Thing…

So Dan Lyons, from Fake Steve Jobs fame, is quitting blogging because the financial reward hasn’t been big enough.
Moneyquote:

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There’s Some Irony In There…

On the About page of this blog I quote Paul Boutin and hint at a disbelief in blogs as a medium for individuals.
Although at a certain I have been a so-called blowhard blogger, my background is different and I originate from the CMS. A scene where you slap lots of content on a site, have extensive link lists, maybe even run regularly news, linking to blogs, and try to build a community, most of the time in some kind of forum.

To be entirely honest, I never really liked the blogs as a platform option.

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