Check this out, this digg front pager greeted me at 5am on a Saturday morning. I noticed out of the 20 other front pagers there were 7 stories similar. As you can see, none of my friends dugg. But what is interesting is I cannot see any of the usual suspects. Friends of ours. Kinda sounds like a secret crime syndicate and in a way it is. The point being, this story hit … [Read more...] about Are Your Digg Buddies Holding You Back?
I Hate the How to Linkbait Ebook
A year ago I thought about writing an ebook about linkbait and social media marketing. It seemed the most effective way to teach what I have learned and to do in a format that is financially rewarding. At the time I had to postpone it as clients got in the way, all wanting me to write kickass linkbait for their website. After thinking for a long time about the ebook option, I … [Read more...] about I Hate the How to Linkbait Ebook
Digg Not Saved, Please Reload and Try Again
Or go to a site which actually works. From the Digg blog, "Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get Digg back to 100% for ya. Please bear with us ? … [Read more...] about Digg Not Saved, Please Reload and Try Again
Stumbleupon Grid Display
Stumbleupon now allows you to change your stumble blog from a list to a grid. It takes a screen cap if the pages you have stumbled and makes a very cool grid. Here is a screen cap of my own blog which you can find here. A lot of changes to websites such as SU can turn out to be mere frippery. Time will tell, but I think this option is going to be useful. … [Read more...] about Stumbleupon Grid Display
How Ed Dale Hammered in the Final Nail of my Twitter Coffin
So I previously made fun of Twitter, but there was something about it which kept my attention. One thing which kept me connected was the fact that my peers were spending time there and a conversation existed. Not knowing what the conversation was about became painful, so I had to keep dipping in. And, there are bits and bobs and nuggets of gold in there, sure you get the, "I'm … [Read more...] about How Ed Dale Hammered in the Final Nail of my Twitter Coffin
Success is Sometimes Just about Sticking Around
In December 2005 I wrote a blog post for Darren Rowse on Problogger.net , that's over two years ago. It's not a bad little article, although I no longer agree with a couple of things. Keep your posts down to 250 words! No chance, a post should be as long as it needs to be. It's the information people are interested in not the format. Restricting a post to a short length means … [Read more...] about Success is Sometimes Just about Sticking Around