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The Blog Turns 20 This Year

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With over 3600 posts and over 40,000 comments, it is much more than a publishing platform. When I was writing the first draft of my second book, CTRL ALT Delete (which came out in the latter part of last year), I was genuinely anxious to use the word "blog" in the book. It made me do a double-take. Twenty years.

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Get More Comments: Focus on the First Comment

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That’s when you begin to wonder … why isn’t anybody leaving a comment? There are blogs with readerships in the hundreds of thousands with barely a handful of comments per post. Why don’t people comment? But for commenting to happen, they must understand it as an option. That first comment is the tipping point.

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What Moved You In 2010

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As a former magazine publisher, there's just nothing like opening up a browser and entering into a world of insightful pieces of content written by people who are truly passionate about a topic that gets published the second their idea is complete. I looked at comments, engagement and the PageRank score that each Blog post received.

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A Real State Of Independence

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Today is the day that allows me to appreciate things like this blog, the Six Pixels of Separation podcast and my books ( Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete ) in a whole other light. The constant rejection and silence from magazine and newspaper editors is something that I would never wish on any other professional.

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6 Things Bloggers Can Learn From Dr. Seuss

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In 1954, Life Magazine published a finding that concluded children were not learning to read because the books they were assigned to read was boring. He asked Geisel (Seuss) to cut the list to 250 words and to write a book using only those words. Spaulding challenged Geisel to write a book ‘children can’t put down.’

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #146

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" Scott Simpson absolutely skewered me with this piece from The Magazine. " Scott Simpson absolutely skewered me with this piece from The Magazine. If you care about books, writing and reading, you should read it." What are some of the smartest things you''ve seen people do to promote a book? the magazine.

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We Are Not (That) Social Media

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In fact, one could argue that everything we thought was possible about connectivity and social media could best be understood by reading the business book classic, The Cluetrain Manifesto. The anchor quote from that book was, "markets are conversations." A community is not having a lot of followers. Let's roll with that.