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Category: Blogging

  • Podcasts

    Where are all the listeners coming from? My first podcast from May is still being listened to and downloaded a few times a day. Almost nobody has left a comment. I have no idea where all these people are coming from, can anyone help? Are the podcasts being crawled and skewing the download figures?

  • Classic Catchphrase

    Hehe.

  • Mark Urban blog

    For those of you who might have missed it, one of the best reporters on the BBC has started blogging. It seems to have gone unnoticed since I appear to be the only RSS subscriber. It might take a while to get his blogging mojo going, but it is definitely a blog to watch.

  • Blogroll renovation

    I have been going through my blogroll and removing defunct links, and adding some new ones. If your blog is not listed please do leave a comment.

  • Adverts

    I have switched off Google Ads for the time being. While the income justified their use, I can no longer justify their placement directly in individual posts. I may alter the theme in order to make them more amenable to readers, probably by placing them alongside posts rather than inside them

  • Why Newspapers Must Embrace RSS

    As an aside to my post on Jeff Jarvis, Felix Salmon has a good post over at Portfolio.com. Salmon is referring to a recent report from Forrester. The main thing I’d try to communicate to the newspaper-industry readers of the Forrester report is that RSS and blogs are not unfortunate necessities, they’re one of your…

  • The Big Picture

    Eamonn points to the rather excellent Big Picture blog over at the Boston Globe. However, as a long time reader of Barry Ritholtz’s blog, also called the Big Picture, I have to say my loyalties stay with Barry. Incidentally, he isn’t too happy with other blogs ‘stealing’ the name of his finance oriented blog. The…

  • Bezos and Twitter?

    Apparently. Jeff Bezo’s fund Bezos Expeditions has invested in Twitter, the micro-blogging platform. Maybe this will help with all that downtime.

  • Hegarty bows out

    Shane Hegarty is bowing out of blogging, at least for now. I can entirely symphatise with his decision, having done so several times myself. It always dragged me back though. Best of luck Shane!

  • De traffic

    I note with some worry that Mr Mulley and Mr Major (not John) have seen their traffic hit the circa 1 million mark. My position as one of the most trafficked (1.3m) Irish blogs is fast diminishing. Oh woe is me. What am I to do?