Blogging and Fair Use
There’s a good article on WebProNews that explains the legal basis for this concept in the United States, which has its foundation in the first amendment. Note that this article applies only to the United States.
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I’ve been testing Blogrush for a couple of weeks (see here), and thus far I am finding the benefits marginal. When I first posted I showed the rate at which people were clicking through my syndicated entries shown on other blogs. Today I think I have the highest level, and it’s for a single post….
Twitter Karma – Clean Up Followers
Having reached the 2,000 follower barrier on Twitter, I needed to bring my follower list down closer to my followed list. There are some services that will simply unfollow those who don’t follow you, but since I follow–and read–some tech gurus, news services, and such, that don’t follow me, I didn’t want to do that….
WordPress 2.5 Write Post Buttons
I had a number of missing buttons on my “Write Post” page after upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Since I upgraded a number of installations of WordPress at the same time, and most of them work, I came quickly to suspect an upload problem. Note that I’m not talking about missing icons in the visual editor,…
Social Media Golden Rules
… from Web Worker Daily. Many of these will look obvious to you, but since I started in the Computer BBS world back in the mid 1980s I have noticed that things people take for granted in their daily social interactions are ignored in electronic media. People want value from a business or they aren’t…
TrafficJam
I received an e-mail from the folks at Blogrush announcing Trafficjam. I’m testing Blogrush on my Threads blog, with marginal results. Part of my problem with click-throughs is my headlines. Mine are too long and not catchy enough, but they’re what I use. I like informative. Note that while I’m writing about it here on…
Another Blogrush Update
I have previously posted on my marginal regard for Blogrush as a means of driving traffic to your site. I’m still marginal, but recent reports have suggested perhaps I should go to marginal++. Over the last couple of weeks I have had a number of posts go into two digits of click throughs. That still…