Traffic (or lack thereof) at German History Blog

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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Begin blogging with help from Mark Mason and others

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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What if you offered 3000 jobs in a place with 15% unemployment and nobody applied?

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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Mind mapping

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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Three things you don’t need to be a successful blogger. (And three things you absolutely need!)

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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