Jul
21
Happy beginning-of-the-week, everyone. As promised, I saw The Dark Knight over the weekend and, unsurprisingly, nearly pooped my pants with glee. A little plot-heavy, a little crazy at times… but good gravy, what a Joker. And that Aaron Eckhart was pretty damned unbelievable as Two-Face as well. I still haven’t seen Mamma Mia (nor have I heard good things about it, sadly), but that’s why the good lord made weekday matinees. I’m pretty sure they got made on the fourth day, somewhere between naked mole rats and Tejano music.
So, let’s see what’s going on in the world this week…
(opens newspaper, shakes creases out)
Freelance Writing Gigs asks: Is a Blogger a Writer? My answer: Sure! Every blogger is a writer! Not every blogger is a good writer, mind you…
Two good Twitter-related posts over at friend-of-the-site Crenk: Steven Finch points out ten great tools for using Twitter, and Luis Sandoval offers the top ten Twitter add-ons for Firefox. I’m about the world’s worst Twitter user; I tweet about once per week. Or I won’t tweet for five days, then make between six and eight updates in two hours. Then I’ll neglect it all over again. You know where I belong? 1850, that’s where.
Speaking of Luis Sandoval, he’s got a great post that asks one of the purest and most important questions every writer should ask his- or herself: Are you writing intentionally?
The folks over at SEOmoz are in the midst of a great discussion: What part of the SEO process is hardest for you? For me, it’s pretending I know what I’m talking about. Kidding, kidding. Or… am I?
At the Writer’s Bag, there’s a brand-new post about semicolons which does two things: Settles a discussion I had with commenter PS3 after my comma post, and makes completely obsolete the post I had planned on semicolons.
Cracked offers up its holiest of holies in two articles: The Top Seven Secrets for Writing a Cracked.com Top Seven List, and Seven Cheats for Hitting the Front Page of Digg. My prediction is that they won’t work for you. But then, I’m a depressive, pessimistic bastard who likes seeing other people fail, so I may not be the best source of advice. Again, I’m kidding. We all know by now how awesome I am.
Now: Stop reading websites and start writing something that excites you.
Popularity: 29% [?]
I swear I’m going to have to stop checking this website at the beginning of the week. These links always distract me from the work I should be doing
i agree. it’s out of control, eh?
Daily slacker is fascinating and the only one from your list that really appealed to me. I intend bookmarking him and visiting him regularly.
The Semi colon post is also quite interesting. Thank you.
Just doing my job to keep the world from being more productive.
great advise i never dream of running a blog because of my poor english but i have to start one blogging is one grt way to connect and learn
Don’t let that stop you…I say blog on whats the worst that could happen!?
I have noticed that all Good writes and Bloggers almost right the same thing and pick similar topics. I think this is not good. It doesn’t mean that they copy each other but how they can write similar posts?
I always enjoy the posts on cracked!
Where do you get the time to read all these posts?
Thank you very much for the great information
Those look like great tools for using twitter, but I just cant get into twitter… i havent tried it yet, but I don’t see any use…
Wow, thank I really good post. You obviously spent a bit of time putting it together. Your efforts are appreciated. Thanks!
But I think it is really worth using twitter and the above tools
Wasn’t Batman one of the best movies ever made??? I thought is was better than the first, it is kind of funny how this year, both Ironman and Batman haveboth stepped up the production by a huge margin. Thanks for keeping my mind on work!!!LOL
“The semicolon is an ugly beast, and thus I tend to avoid it.”
Those who daily use Twitter can take a good advantage of using the above-mentioned tools. Those who just start using it at least can have a try. Thanks for sharing this information with us
Pretending to know what you are talikng about can be hard. Maybe talk about something you do know what to talk about! “Blogging” Nice one Kev
Do you believe that site analysis is worst part of SEO for me. From day one(when I supposed to start internet as my full time career) I have found myself pretty uncomfortable with this part. I often discuss a site’s SEO report with many of my friends to identify problems with that.
When will we see you posting again?
I agree batman was awesome. Word to the wise…avoid pineapple express. Not good at all. Just my opinion!!
lol Love the tangents mate! Dark Night >> Twitter >> writing >> SEO >> semi-colons??
(checks desk calendar to see if this was written on a Monday evening)
Btw, heard the Dark Knight was awesome. Not sure if it’s hit my neck of the woods (north west UK)
I LOLed at your seo pretending comment…kinda true
Where has pureblogging gone? Are you guys on vacation?
With regards to every blogger being a writer… yah… but there’s many who are not too good at writing, or those who are like me, and are just lazy writers… I can write well, just choose not to most of the time.
I have to admit that the article “Seven Cheats for Hitting the Front Page of Digg. ” is the best article so far which I have read about digg. I was not Digg savvy not twitter Junkie but both of these sites inspired me the most recently. I have to say that I am addicted to both, even I search on these sites before moving to Google because all social media sites are now more informative and rich in resources.
I think it’s time to using twitter or maybe plurk with support the above tools
Haven’t got to see the Dark Knight yet but did see Mamma Mia the other week. Wanted to see how it stacked up to the live stage show which was great.
All the leading male singers were pretty hopeless but hats off to Meryl Streeps’ performance and to her two girl friends, they made the trip to the cinema worthwhile.
Good round up of the best blog stuff on seo. Helps you keep up with the latest information.
I have found this post while searching google and I am glad I found it.
Re: What part of the SEO process is hardest for you?
Well for me it has to be the analytics side of it all. I just can’t keep up.
Every blogger is a writer! Not every blogger is a good writer, mind you…
What a lesson! Thanks for a nice list of articles, I’ll be checking what they have to say about getting to the Digg front page.
Yan
Semicolons are confusing and sometimes intimidating to use
i’m not a good writer but i really enjoy blogging
Dark Knight was unreal… I cant wait for the next one!!!
Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..
zhmlei
I’m a so-so writer but I enjoy blogging
Just gotta stop reading so many blogs and write more content…
Great links, I always love them, thanks for sharing!
I am a big fan of Crenk. Great addition to twitter!
I need to check Crenk out — have not heard of or used it.
Great links by the way!!
I’ve stopped attempting to pretend that I am a good writer. I usually do what you’ve done here, cover my articles in links and hope for the best.
Sometimes I rant on and on and receive no comments whatsoever; however, if I post a youtube video or a flickr picture (popURLS anyone?) I get at least 6 or 7. (I know, big numbers – right?).
Carry on! (my wayward son)
-Jolene
Hi Jolene,
your comment is really nice with a different thinking……keep it up….
I saw this movie, it impressed me indeed
thanks fo the info and sharing the links
Wow thanks for sharing the blogs you share are awesome. I love the twitter addons list, I really love to use some of them.
Thanks
Thanks