Website Design, Search Engine Optimization

They thought the VCR would end movies, and microblogging was or is supposed to end the era of traditional blogging.  This report seems to prove differently:
Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme

Traditional blogging continues to thrive and microblogging, facebook and twitter continue to support the blogging platform. I personally have three blogs now, I just started a new one last week and I continue to advise my clients to use blogs. My vote is for the great group at Automattic that continue to do a fantastic job on WordPress .

Thinking about starting a blog, updating or need inspiration? Here is a list from Time Magazine of what they think are the top blogs for 2009. I am sure this list will change by the end of the year.

25 Best Blogs of 2009

Is your favorite blog on here? If not what is it?

Six Points to Get You Started Blogging

I have not visited my blog in three months and when I clicked on the link, I was overwhelmed when I saw the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. I forgot that I had changed my theme that is how long it has been since I have visited my blog. Where have I been? I am not ignoring my web skills, in fact I have been so busy that I have ignored posting updates on this blog. Now I think it is time to begin sharing some of my experiences.  I have become addicted to the blogosphere and social networking. Once again the web is making it possible for the world to get that much smaller. Find a subject you are passionate about, either personal, social or professional and start blogging about it. It is amazing the comments and people you will meet.  If you are thinking about blogging start now and just jump in and do it, my advise:

• start with a good blogging platform, like WordPress
• pick a subject that you are passionate about, will enjoy writing about or want to learn more
• do keyword research so that your content will be found on the search engines
• get to know your blogoshere, that is the other bloggers that are also blogging about your subject
• social network, if you have never done it before jump in
• analyze what is working, install analytics on your blog and track it.

Happy Blogging!

Hi!  I just updated to wordpress 2.5. If you have a blog and have not done upgraded it is well worth it. The Dashboard has been updated and the control panel appears to be more user friendly. I am hoping that it has better capabilities for adding your own HTML that has always had some bugs.

On the write a post page they have added media buttons for image / video /audio / media. Under the title it shows the permalink that it will be posted as. I have not really traveled through the dashboard but on the write a post page it appears cleaner and more user friendly.

From what I can tell this is an upgrade you don’t want to miss. I may have missed a few upgrades from I was using 2.3.3.

Have a great week.