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Can random surfers identify what your blog is about?
Yesterday I wrote about staying focused on your target audience when adding content to your blog. By remaining focused on the same theme you are most likely to retain and expand your audience.
In today’s fast paced internet life, readers tend to browse quickly between pages and sites,
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When writing a blog or content for a website, do you aim to the right audience? Are you doing everything possible to turn them into loyal readers?
If you checked my overflowing RSS reader of choice, you will find a wide diversity of blogs and feed sources. Most will be tech related but among them you
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Seems like everyone heard of Robert Scoble Google killers videos and the fire they are still drawing over the past few days. A post over at Wired Online pushed Robert over the edge and he had to defend himself, mind you, he doesn’t shoot back to defend his opinions, but wonders how come this matter
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I hardly ever watch online video shows or vlogs or videocasts, how ever you want to call them. I simply don’t have time for them. They require too much of my attention. I can read through a few blogs posts quickly and move on. I can listen to podcasts while doing some other work, if
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I have a few more Pownce invites to give out. If you need any contact me with your email address. If you don’t know what Pownce is you can check this post or check Pownce website. Don’t post your email in the comments as it’s likely to get phished.

I never got caught up in the Twitter hype. It’s uninteresting to me to see what people are doing every waking moment of their lives. Looking at the constantly updated page you realize that most people’s lives are just plain boring, even more than your own. And considering they twitter only the highlights of
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Microblogging has been the new hype in the blogsphere for a while, Twitter, Jaiku & Pownce are getting more traction and users are flocking to one or all of these services. While it’s been discussed numerous times which service is better and offer more useful features, a different question arises, when you have all three,
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I only have one question, is Jason Calacanis news?
Yesterday Jason Calacanis announced on his blog that he will be starting a new job at Sequoia Capital. It was covered on Techcrunch, Valleywag,
Search Engine Journal and a bunch of other high profile blogs. So I’ll ask again, is it really news? Are we moving from talking
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In reality it all started when I wanted to rename my old “blogtech” category and make sure it included new technologies (ok, they are not really new anymore, but still), mainly podcasts and videocasts. Getting my mind around the matter, it was pretty clear it’s all about personal publishing, at least in it’s essence or
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I switched to full RSS feeds more than a year ago and didn’t feel the slightest drop in site visitors. Decline in traffic, which in turn reduce the number of users exposed to ad banners or text ads is the main reason for bloggers objecting to full feeds. Less exposer equals less income to the
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Comment spam messages are becoming more and more sophisticated. In an attempt to look like a legitimate comment, spammers use various techniques to make their comments legitimate both to spam blocker mechanisms and the human eye.
Look at this message my blocker put in the moderation queue this morning:
I have a Linksys Model BEFW11S4. In the
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That’s it, after many sepculations BlogExplosion has been sold. From the official announcement:
We are pleased to announce that BlogExplosion has been sold to Stephen Sartain and a group of private investors this weekend. We had competitive bids all through last week and finally was decided on Saturday afternoon.
Stephen has bought two sites from us previously
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Find the OpenID for WordPress plugin over at Scatmania. This will be a great solution for many users. A better install and better tested versions will continue come .

I was helping a friend get his blog into some of the popular blog directories when I received this interesting response from BlogWise:
Your site has been added to the submission queue. Thank you for adding your site to Blogwise.
It is important to us that all entries are checked for consistency before approval, however Blogwise is
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If you’ve noticed something strange here and TechMount in the last couple of hours, this is because I’ve been getting “406 Not Acceptable” errors when I try to post. This is the first time I came across such errors as a user.
I don’t know yet why I’m getting such errors when posting in WordPress,
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