Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: Productivity

An easier way to dialogue with your blog commenters

18 July 2007 – 2:23 pm

I admit it. I suck at dialoguing with my commenters properly. It’s been an interface issue, mostly. But that seems to have been solved. I noticed Liz talking about a Wordpress plugin called Better Comments Manager, and I’ve installed it… and it’s working a treat. So expect more dialogue from me in the comments. (This [...]

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If you don’t have passion and purpose, greater productivity won’t help you!

28 April 2007 – 12:54 am

If what you do with the best hours of your day is not also the thing you’re passionate about, stop right now!
Stop right now and confront the cold hard facts for what they are: no amount of effectiveness training, time management skills, productivity tips and tricks or goal setting know-how will replace the critical [...]

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Blogging in the eye of the storm

27 April 2007 – 11:59 pm

WARNING: I was high on caffeine, low on sweetness and off-the-charts on dry wit when I wrote this…

My pastor at church writes a short piece on the front of each weekend’s bulletin. This week’s words are particularly penetrating:
35,000 feet above the dusty plains of Pakistan, flying toward the 15 million people of Karachi, I studied [...]

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Amazingly simple image editing and hosting with Wiredness

13 April 2007 – 3:38 pm

A mentor of mine once said, “The simple is beyond the complex.” What I would add to that is that something that has been simplified down to is core and essential components is a beautiful thing to behold. I feel that way about Wiredness, a new online image editor.

Man, this thing is so simple I [...]

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Saying thank you to blog commenters just got a lot easier

12 April 2007 – 7:00 am

If you’re like me you get annoyed with yourself when you know what you should be doing but you see yourself slipping. It’s been like that for me with commenters on my blog.
See, if you’ve commented on my blog, I want you to know I really appreciate the effort you’ve gone to, to be part [...]

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Wordpress comment spam: my simple way to stop (most of) it before it happens

10 April 2007 – 12:36 pm

I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet.
But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.
As your blog grows [...]

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The best source of free images for your blog posts

13 March 2007 – 10:59 am

I hope there is no debate among my readers that the value of a contextually relevant and visually compelling image in your blog post is massive. I try hard to avoid publishing a story of more than a few paragraphs without including a (hopefully) impressive-looking picture towards the top of the post. A picture does [...]

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XML-RPC for blog comments: why the heck not?!

20 February 2007 – 2:15 pm

Fairly regularly in the blogosphere you hear people complaining about how few people reading their blog go the next step and leave a comment. I recall that last year, Darren Rowse posted his “10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog“, linking to a Jakob Nielsen study that found that…
In most online communities, 90% [...]

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Where’d he go?

20 February 2007 – 8:06 am

People have been contacting me to make sure I’m ok, and I want to assure everyone I am
I haven’t posted for almost a week, which is very unlike me. So here’s the story in as few words as possible, and as many words as permissible(!)…
Last week I filmed as a contestant on the [...]

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How to grow your blog by over 2000 per cent in one month!

17 January 2007 – 4:28 pm

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/programming/How_To_Grow_Your_Blog_By_Over_2_000_In_one_month’;This is the post where I spill the beans a little on what I’m doing to grow the profile of my own blog. The fact is, that I am not much of a blog consultant if my own blog is languishing in the sombre shadows of the blogosphere… so a month ago, in [...]

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