Spring Cleaning The Blog & More On Thesis For WordPress
It’s been over three years since I launched Daggle, and things have been overdue for an update. So, I’ve finally gotten to that. For those who care, a rundown on changes and some further thoughts on...
View ArticleDammit, I’m A Journalist, Not A Blogger: Time For Online Journalists To Unite?
The public relations war of newspapers against both Google and blogs shows no signs of ebbing. Today, we get a proposal that newspapers deserve special laws to protect them. I’ll come back to that, but...
View ArticleBlog Drama
I’ve confessed my love of Techmeme many times. I still love it. But man, the drama of late. I was thinking that we shouldn’t be having so much drama right now, during the holiday season when everyone’s...
View ArticlePublic Spam/Splog Report
I run backlink checks on the sites I watch over via Google Blog Search, you know, now the number one blog search or something like that. For the past two weeks, they’re getting clogged with the type of...
View ArticleLatest MyBlogLog Spam — Adding Coauthors?
Checking my email, I found not one but two different requests to be an coauthor at MyBlogLog. It’s making me guess that this is simply a new way people are trying to draw attention to their own sites,...
View ArticleIs Jason Calacanis Great Or The Greatest?
Jason Calacanis is great. Sure, I know there are those in the SEO community who think he’s full of shit. But come on? Do you really understand Jason and the reasons why you should listen to him? To...
View ArticleBlogs & Mainstream Media: We Can & Do Get Along
There’s been noise this week about the rivalry between competing blogs as well as the rivalry between blogs and the mainstream media. I found myself reflecting on all of this from the perspective of...
View ArticleNew Yorker On Death Of Newspapers & Blogs
Last week, I did my own personal account of how it felt to have left newspapers behind to do blogging and the perceived rivalries but also support between them. Guess there’s a meme going around....
View ArticleReading The Wall Street Journal For Free Despite Its Google News Cloaking
In Read The Wall Street Journal For Free, I explained how to get Wall Street Journal content for free via Google News. But in the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a problem. You can’t find some of the...
View ArticleLaunching My Wife’s Blog & Playing With The Thesis WordPress Theme
Now we are a two blog family. My wife, Lorna Harris, now is blogging over at Calif Lorna. I spent a few years here on Daggle talking about life in Britain from the perspective of an American. Now she’s...
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