Micro Living With Tumbleweed Houses
Friday, den 18. July 2008These ingenious little houses have been around for a while, but with rising living costs and environmental concerns, they deserve a mention. In 1997 Jay Shafer set out to simplify his life, first by living… … continue reading
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Why do you comment in a blog post?
Friday, den 18. July 2008That may seem a very silly question but if you want to create a dedicated reader base for your blog - you must know the answer. If you can guess what the other person is thinking or why the other person is taking a step, you may have a chance to get into it.
Why I am asking this question?
For last couple of months, there had been lots of talks on “Do Follow” comments. A lot of bloggers made their comment links ‘do follow’ to attract more comments. Some of them are still running the model and some have gone back to good old days.
They thought that it would attract more comments as the commenter would get a free link. And they actually got some comments.
But, what do you want - quality comment or just the number of comments?
You must have seen that, a lot of people make unnecessary comments in high traffic or well established blogs. And the most common text is - “interesting post” or may be “great article” although the blogger had written a crap. Ok, to the most, I would count only 5% of them as genuine appreciation - others are just a comment for comment’s sake.
Do these comments help your blog at all!
I agree that numbers matter - if a post gets 50 comments within an hour, you got to be happy and more people would be interested to write a comment (bees attract bees).
However, my experience and my web behavior say that the real people do not comment for links - they comment because they have something to say. And people normally do not want to comment because they do not have time to comment or they hesitate to comment.
In any classroom, teachers need to do a very important job - they need to make the students aware that, they can ask whatever they want. Did you try it? Did you leave any place for your readers to ask something; to fight with you; to hit you in your face!
Did you give them the space to agree or disagree!
If they agree, they may not write a comment but if they disagree, the chances of their writing a comment go higher (time is not a big constraint anymore).
Being too good is not good enough - people may not like to “talk to” you and “talk about” you for being too good - they would only appreciate you from a distance.
So, what are you plans for the day!
Did you read this post! Why don’t you leave your signature in the comment section?
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Wish You Were Here at BlogHer08!
Friday, den 18. July 2008This was my favorite part of the conference, and it’s only just started! This is Starla, Susan, Shannon, me and Erika hanging out together at BlogHer. Sparkpluggers unite!
If you’re not here with us at BlogHer in San Francisco, watch my Flickr feed all weekend for lots of photos. And if you ARE here, [...]
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MOMA Unveils ‘Wall Of The Future’ This Weekend
Friday, den 18. July 2008NYC based Contemporary Architecture Practice will exhibit a new building wall concept at MOMA beginning on Sunday. The wall combines internal structure and surface skin into a single element. The concept was produced using robotic… … continue reading
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The Boathouse: A “Bring Your Own Food” Restaurant
Friday, den 18. July 2008The Australian state of Tasmania is home to King Island. Known for it’s quality food products including cheese, lobsters and beef, it’s also home to a restaurant that serves no food. Twelve years ago, artist… … continue reading
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Happy, Sad, Angry? These Robots Know
Friday, den 18. July 2008The Feelix Growing project is working on making robots more life like. Using sensors and cameras that detect facial expressions, voice fluctuation, gait recognition and proximity, researchers are giving the robots the ability to detect… … continue reading
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Sagging Pants Now A Criminal Offense
Friday, den 18. July 2008The police chief of Flint, Michigan decided he’d had enough of the fashion style known as “sagging”. If you haven’t guessed by now, it’s when you wear your pants really, really low below your waistline… … continue reading
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Kinetic Egg Signals Breakfast Time At McDonalds
Friday, den 18. July 2008Installed last week across from Wrigley Field in Chicago is a giant robotic egg that cracks open every morning to reveal a yoke that says “Fresh Eggs Daily”. The billboard egg begins to crack open… … continue reading
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5 Virtual Assistant Business Tools
Friday, den 18. July 2008For a virtual assistant it is your job to have available to you those tools that will allow you to help your clients run their business easier. Not to mention, these tools will help you run your business abit easier too. Most of these tools listed below are free applications however, one of them even [...]
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Martin Neumann Gets It: It’s the Lifestyle
Friday, den 18. July 2008One of the best bloggers in the home business zone - as in most informative, most entertaining, most literate, most uncompromising - is Martin Neumann.
Host since 2005 of Home Office Voice, described then as “a new online media outlet (aka … a blog) that offers the latest news, reviews and general commentary in the world [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Martin Neumann Gets It: It’s the Lifestyle”, url: “http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/07/18/martin-neumann-gets-it-its-the-lifestyle/” });
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