Should We Stop Reading Blogs to Blog?

Should we?

Tina Su from Think Simple Now and Henrik Edberg of Positivity Blog was interviewed by Daniel Scocco. The result was a very interesting review, where they both have things in common lead them to reach a large number of audience.

These are the practical lessons that have been said repeatedly, yet proven useful:

• provide valuable content, and do it consistently.
• use a unique design or idea or concept to help you differentiate from the others.
• don’t be over obsessed with ranks like PR and Alexa. Allocate your energy more towards providing priceless content.
• be persistent and commit to quality.

Those are the points most bloggers need to put their best effort in to. However, there is something unusual both Tina and Henrik don’t do on their journey blogging.

Question: How many RSS feeds do you track daily?

Tina: Zero. I occasionally will visit Zenhabits.net, but that’s about it. I don’t really read blogs.

Henrik: None. I visit a few blogs maybe once a week.

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Irrelevant Posts and Categories! Maybe You Like Them, Your Readers Certainly Don’t

Irrelevant posts or categories will hurt your traffic and your readers!

When I take a walk on the blogosphere, I tend to look at a blog’s categories list and the posts inside. Then I match them against the blog’s title.

If I find them pointing to the same direction, I’ll subscribe to their feed. If I see some effort to make relevant posts to the blog’s headline, I’ll enjoy receiving their updates. I mean, I don’t want an information whether “the Catholic Church is the True Church of Christ or Not” from a technology blog! If I want to, I’ll subscribe to the Pope’s blog instead .

Now, have you had irrelevant posts? What makes you do so? If you’re not sure, see if these conditions ever appear on your blogging journey, causing distracted posts: Read more

WordPress 2.3.2 Released!

taken from the original source

Newly released WordPress 2.3.2 has an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. WP 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

As a little bonus, 2.3.2 allows you to define a custom DB error page. Place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. If WP has a problem connecting to your database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message.

For more detail on what’s new in 2.3.2, view the list of fixed bugs and see the changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.

Special thanks to Alex Concha for his help on this release.

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