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Whoops! I totally forgot to put this up yesterday — sorry!
Anyway, I was going to do something this week about blog categories and tagging, but soon realized the topic is more complicated than I anticipated and, frankly, I need something low-key after Bingo (results soon). So this week is going to be something easy and [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is a revival of one of my favorite previous activities, the book review link exchange. I’m excited because doing the link exchange was, I think, when I first found Weekly Geeks. Basically, the challenge to let your readers know that you have a link exchange policy, show them your archives, [...]
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Darren Rose, the author of Problogger, is hosting another “31 Days to a Better Blog” project starting on April 1. I read Problogger regularly and have taken quite a few articles from that site as resources for the Blog Improvement Project, so I’m very excited about this. Even if you don’t consider yourself a professional [...]
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March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]
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One of my secret (or maybe not-so-secret) nerdy passions is grammar. I’m no expert on grammar rules, but I like to think I generally get things right. Over the last few weeks, there have been a bunch of mainstream news articles that have brought up some grammar issues that caught my attention.
In Birmingham, England, city [...]
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Welcome to my second edition of J-School Journal. I hate that name, so instead of formalizing my feature with a name I’m just going to commit to writing a post about journalism and journalism school on Friday, without worrying that it has a snazzy button or name (unless I come up with something cool later [...]
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Last year (wow it seems weird to write that), I read and reviewed Not Quite What I Was Planning, a book of six-word memoirs edited by SMITH Magazine. The concept of the book comes from an urban legend that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. Based on that [...]
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PC World recently published a list of 100 of their favorite blogs. I went through it yesterday and a lot of them seemed fun. I know everyone’s Google Readers and Feeds are overflowing, but here are a few more I think you should consider (that don’t take any time to keep up with):
passive aggressive notes.com: [...]
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