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After a few days of the comments trickling into my other blog on the post that I talked about recently, I am sure they are all coming from one person. How crazy is that to invent 20 different personas. The thing is, the comments are all the same. The more that come in, the more [...]

On one of my other blogs, I have received (so far) six comments on an old controversial post that doesn’t receive any comments anymore. It would appear that someone has sent a link to all their friends via email, because all the incoming paths are direct, often from internet mail URLs. I have a comment stalker [...]

Something new I’m learning to deal with is my blog stalker. She doesn’t read this blog, at least I hope she doesn’t. But I’ll take that risk this time because I just need to talk about it. She started off being a supportive commenter, I looked forward to hearing from her. Then it got a little [...]

Since I’ve started running my own business my thought patterns have definitely changed from being an employee. As an employee you never really question the motivations for what you do. And you don’t question the methods often either. However, having said that, I’m pretty sure most employees would say they question both. Just this morning I [...]

I was just deleting my spam comments. I love Akisment, it’s practically perfect. One of the spam comments was something like: Thanks for the tip! I’ll probably be subscribing to your posts. Keep up the good work! What I find hilarious is the use of the word “probably”. Like he’s still not sure, and I’ll have to [...]

When I first started blogging I plastered all my blogs with Google ads, like one does. When it didn’t work out, I removed them all. I’m experimenting in a very small way to see if I can actually make Google ads work. But today I just removed all of my AdSense for feeds ads, and [...]

Now that I have a few blogs and kind of a standard way of doing things, I’m figuring out what adds time to posting and what are repetitive tasks. For me, probably the biggest thing is adding images. I like to add images to every post, but it takes forever. I have to: find the image upload it [...]

I have been thinking lately that comments can be placed into one of three categories. Normal These are the comments nobody minds. They are the kinds of comments blog owners expect most of the time. They aren’t necessarily pro or con or good or bad, they just are, and they are basically uneventful. Controversial Controversial comments have something special [...]

I’ve had multiple blogs for a couple of months now. I have five. The original blog is turning out to be more my personal blog, but it feels kind of amorphous. I don’t like that feeling. I know it will be hard for users to follow a blog that doesn’t appear to have a purpose. [...]