Are you a blogger? Who cares.

For those with soft ego – your readers do. Lacking subscribers? Get your mom to comment on your blog. She still cares. Boosts your stats too.

The subject was actually brought up by the recent shutdown day that asked two questions:

“Can you survive for a day without a computer?” – Yes, I can.
And “what would happen [...]

Your comment is special, have a star

My recent reflection on blogging currency (that would be backlinks) deserves a follow-up. In seeking the balance between contextual value and link-love reward, user comments come to the forefront of a digital war. The epic battle involves search engines, millions of competing websites, and even more spam. Here are generally two camps of thought:

nofollow

The default [...]

Tech link train wreck – final stop

The newest meme spreading through the blogosphere, is the so called “tech link train”, with a very obvious purpose of gaming both Technorati and Google ranking systems. Links are the currency of the internets – Technorati increases your rank for new links from blogs, while Google increases your rank for links from pages of similar [...]