The echo I hear each time I post an entry to my special interest site, German History Blog, is the sound of my words bouncing around the empty ether. No one’s out there listening (umm, reading)! Well almost no one. I have a handful of users each day, but I sure would [...]
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Mark Mason put up another fine podcast episode, his seventh, on Sunday. The topic this time around is Blogging, which is the sixth of a series on how to make money online. He has previously covered affiliate marketing, information products, eBay, membership sites and e-commerce sites. You can go straight to his [...]
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This is about as off-topic as can be, but I thought this was an interesting article from the Chemnitzer Morgenpost entitled “Why doesn’t anybody here want to work?” (Check out the Google-translated version of the article; it gets the point across pretty well.)
The setting: Leipzig, a large city in the part of today’s Germany [...]
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I’ve been — we’ve all been — hearing a lot about mind maps (or “idea maps”) and mind mapping software over the last few years. It seems to go hand-in-hand with things like Web 2.0, lifestyle design and — most definitely — mind hacking.
For a while now I’ve known very generally what a mind [...]
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I can tell you from personal experience that the following three things do not make you a better blogger:
A nice new Mac Mini (though they are lovely!)
Desktop blogging software.
A catchy blog title.
Because, you know, the strangest thing happened to me: I bought a new Mac Mini, I downloaded a very popular blogging program for the [...]
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