Blogging

Self Hosting in the FIOS Era I don't really like external hosting. A co-located server would be better, but that's fairly expensive. In-house does have some downsides, but it has some good points too. The biggest downside to bringing it in-house is the possibility of being down due to a power failure. Verizon does provide battery backup for its equipment, but that's only good for a few hours - if there was a major power outage here, my site could be dead, dead, dead.
Like watching grass grow I had a conversation yesterday with someone who does a small tech blog (I offered to put a link in this article, but he prefers to remain anonymous). His problem: slow growth. Not "no growth" - people are discovering his blog and apparently at least a few must like it, because both his overall visitors and RSS readers are growing.. but only by a handful per month.
Images or words? I probably should have some photo or image here - all the best blogging advice sites will tell you that pictures are important: people like pictures, people remember pictures, pictures add to content.


Title Date Views Monthly Comments
Chitika Premium
2008 06 753 753

Is your website a lefty or a righty?
2008 06 800 8002008/06/16 21:14 TonyLawrence

Review of Tribal Fusion for Publishers
2008 06 799 799

Hey Technorati - I give up!
2008 06 838 838

Page Views Per Visitor - more isn't
2008 06 794 794

Everything you need to know about seo in
2008 05 1029 5142008/05/27 15:13 TonyLawrence

Road Trip
2008 05 877 4382008/05/20 14:24 BigDumbDinosaur

Twitter Types
2008 05 883 441

If you can't say anything nice..
2008 05 883 4412008/05/01 16:26 TonyLawrence

A web page is more than a pretty
2008 04 782 260

Do you really want a popular blog?
2008 04 1377 4592008/05/13 11:41 TonyLawrence

Google adds benchmark comparisons
2008 04 820 273

 
 
A thousand meanings never meant
2008 04 882 2942008/04/21 13:20 TonyLawrence

SEO Marketing could stand some
2008 04 878 2922008/04/22 14:42 Rani

Like watching grass grow
2008 04 769 2562008/04/12 13:11 TonyLawrence

Reading Skills
2008 03 1184 2962008/06/11 09:56 TonyLawrence

Web Analytics - An Hour a Day
2008 03 1500 375

Web site surveys
2008 03 801 200

E-Mail Harvesting Protection
2008 03 1193 2982008/03/04 16:13 BigDumbDinosaur

Images or words?
2008 02 757 1512008/02/26 11:40 TonyLawrence

Measure
2008 02 576 115

mod_perl on Debian
2008 02 1291 2582008/02/24 11:54 TonyLawrence

Last Words
2008 02 751 1502008/02/20 18:03 TonyLawrence

Hello to Moldova
2008 02 801 1602008/02/20 18:05 TonyLawrence

13.2 Reasons I don't like Social Media
2008 02 5387 10772008/04/05 13:50 TonyLawrence

Tracking clicks
2008 02 855 171

Increase visitor stickiness by site
2008 02 665 133

Programmer Games
2008 02 800 1602008/03/01 05:40 anonymous

Self Hosting in the FIOS Era
2008 02 1047 2092008/02/15 13:55 TonyLawrence

Increase RSS subscriptions- why?
2008 02 858 1712008/02/06 19:27 TonyLawrence

Yes, I have a blog. No, you
2008 02 1223 2442008/02/15 10:38 Anish

What to do about IE6?
2008 02 910 1822008/04/12 16:16 RobO

Tweet-tweet, playing the Twitter game
2008 02 1201 240

Portals, Excerpts, Magazines.. what?
2008 01 697 116

Oh, those kids
2008 01 875 1452008/01/24 14:56 BigDumbDinosaur

Who sees the elephant?
2008 01 851 141

Analyzing web logs with grep
2008 01 1355 2252008/01/18 23:44 BigDumbDinosaur

There's something about a Muntz TV
2008 01 887 147

Why doesn't Technoratibot use RSS?
2008 01 605 100

The importance of good design
2008 01 812 1352008/01/13 12:15 TonyLawrence

Dissecting Google Page Rank
2008 01 687 1142008/01/10 10:14 TonyLawrence

Google reconsideration..
2008 01 827 137

Perl script to get Numly
2008 01 932 155

Numly tags help protect your digital
2008 01 878 1462008/01/07 19:31 bruceg

Jack of All Trades
2008 01 925 154

We're Ad Free (sometimes)
2008 01 554 92

On your own
2008 01 927 1542008/01/05 02:12 Skellie

Focus, Focus, Focus
2008 01 684 114

Help me out with an Alexa Experiment?
2008 01 762 1272008/04/21 22:02 TonyLawrence

Ten stupid blog tricks
2008 01 592 982008/01/04 15:29 TonyLawrence

 
 
 
 
Using Multiple Submits with Perl CGI
2008 01 806 134

Goals for 2008
2008 01 785 1302008/01/04 20:08 TonyLawrence

More thoughts on the Google Slap, no
2007 12 1155 1652008/01/08 23:07 TonyLawrence

Technorati Revisited
2007 12 780 111

Master of All
2007 12 823 117

How I cheat my way to success
2007 12 891 1272008/02/09 00:58 TonyLawrence

Speed up your site
2007 12 961 1372007/12/21 03:39 TonyLawrence

Writing a Twitter getter Widget
2007 12 620 88

Power failure changes my habits
2007 12 633 90

Adsdaq Ad Network
2007 12 691 982007/12/31 19:42 TonyLawrence

Surveys with Google Graphs
2007 12 754 107

Targeting or Embracing your Readers?
2007 12 614 872008/02/18 14:54 TonyLawrence

How little it takes to influence Alexa
2007 12 602 86

Equal height CSS columns with filler
2007 12 2244 3202007/12/06 21:58 TonyLawrence

Google Ad Placement Targeting
2007 11 1078 134

Full or Partial RSS feeds
2007 11 1444 1802008/05/29 12:11 TonyLawrence

Blogging for Dollars
2006 08 2782 1202006/08/18 23:27 BigDumbDinosaur

Advertising income
2006 05 2796 107

Domain values
2006 05 4504 1732007/03/11 12:51 TonyLawrence

Do I care about Technorati? Do you?
2006 01 1968 65

Zabasearch
2005 12 2138 68

Yahoo Publishing Network
2005 12 700 22

Yahoo vs. Google
2005 12 768 24

Yahoo My Web 2.0
2005 12 767 24

www.yourdomain.com vs. yourdomain.com
2005 12 1400 45

 
 
 
 
What is Tabbed Browsing ?
2005 12 965 31

Eleven Billion pages on the Internet
2005 12 750 24

Web site promotion and popularity
2005 12 1198 38

Is Web 2.0 really anything new?
2005 12 743 23

Validating your html
2005 12 928 29

Urltrends
2005 12 906 29

You aren't important
2005 12 669 21

Just Two Posts A Day
2005 12 1991 64

Popular Blog Sites
2005 12 5004 161

Technorati Tags
2005 12 1026 33

Get out the tape measure
2005 12 1115 35

How spammers use link farms
2005 12 778 25

SME Server
2005 12 850 27

Less is more
2005 12 609 19

A search engine list protocol
2005 12 744 24

Blogging style needs a change?
2005 12 704 22

Copyright and plagiarism
2005 12 621 20

Picking your subject for best Adsense
2005 12 1175 37

Can you afford to be a peacock?
2005 12 1451 46

Page counters
2005 12 690 22

One not so great apple
2005 12 1009 32

Google adds Advertise Here ability
2005 12 680 21

Nothing to say today?
2005 12 719 23

Nielsen//NetRatings
2005 12 753 24

Natural language search
2005 12 758 24

 
 
Forget the expense of flying to New England. Forget hotel and meals costs.
Installation and light training Boston and New England

 
 
You really can post too much
2005 12 628 20

Tech.MemeOrandum
2005 12 756 24

foo-web.com Marketing Links
2005 12 678 21

The missing links
2005 12 651 21

Lists of links vs. inline links
2005 12 844 27

Review: LinkMetro.com
2005 12 2486 802007/10/24 01:51 anonymous

Late to the party?
2005 12 809 26

Is Google Watching You?
2005 12 904 29

Internet TV
2005 12 693 22

Influencing Google for Web Site
2005 12 1100 35

using .htaccess files to redirect pages
2005 12 3804 122

Using .htaccess files to restrict
2005 12 1085 35

Gvisit
2005 12 760 24

Google and Sun and Microsoft resume
2005 12 889 28

Google Pricing Rumors
2005 12 694 22

Where's the Google sandbox when you need
2005 12 765 24

Google Goofs
2005 12 945 30

Google promises, but doesn't deliver.
2005 12 811 26

Is the solution for privacy openness?
2005 12 1002 32

The Google Operating System
2005 12 765 24

An inside peek at Google
2005 12 717 23

Google underestimates Analytics popularity
2005 12 714 23

Google's Data Mine
2005 12 717 23

Google Blog Search
2005 12 729 23

Google Off Base?
2005 12 656 21

 
 
LOD Communications, Inc.
 
 
Google Analytics
2005 12 725 23

Millions of voices
2005 12 701 22

More frightened journalists
2005 12 720 23

Due to the fluid nature of the Web..
2005 12 755 24

FasterFox puts extra demand on servers
2005 12 866 272008/01/06 18:02 TonyLawrence

The Blog according to John
2005 12 702 22

Dumb comment spam
2005 12 803 25

Advertising is a shameful thing
2005 12 611 19

Understanding del.icio.us tagging
2005 12 855 27

dashes vs. underscores in filenames
2005 12 1629 52

Creating simple web pages
2005 12 1249 402008/01/19 13:32 TonyLawrence

Copyright abuse
2005 12 706 22

Flip this Blog!
2005 12 852 27

Content Management Systems - not for me
2005 12 1420 45

Taking out the trash
2005 12 654 21

Chitka Mini Mall Ads
2005 12 3021 97

Website Infrastructure - Building your
2005 12 1861 60

Traffic vs. Readers
2005 12 801 25

Blogrolls
2005 12 752 24

Dead blogs
2005 12 1203 38

Should you join a Blog Network?
2005 12 1698 54

How to find inspiration for your blog
2005 12 1648 53

Independent Bloggers
2005 12 766 24

Nobody cares about money
2005 12 764 24

Advice for the new blogger
2005 12 725 23

 
 
M3IP inc.
 
 
Advertising Strategy for Bloggers
2005 12 1477 47

What's your blog worth?
2005 12 1659 53

Regular posting is hard, isn't it?
2005 12 586 18

Blogging Personality
2005 12 1389 442006/06/10 14:58 anonymous

It's only skin deep
2005 12 1006 32

blogging security
2005 12 1665 53

Amazon's Alexa API
2005 12 1702 54

Automatic Ping Sites
2005 12 5010 161

Review: Asrep (Third party reporter
2005 12 2206 71

Lessons learned from Asrep
2005 12 726 23

Quality for whom?
2005 12 582 18

The Gorilla, the Cowboy, and the Banana
2005 12 826 26

Competition in advertising
2005 12 1774 57

Tracking Ad Performance with Channels
2005 12 708 22

A few bad apples
2005 12 673 21

Ad blindness
2005 12 2075 66

Linking suggestions
2005 12 661 21

A search engine list protocol
2005 11 630 19

Plagiarism and copyright
2005 08 1150 32

pagerank: Tech Words the Day
2004 12 1072 24

Advertising Strategy for Bloggers
2004 12 2153 50

blosxom Blogging tool : Tech Words
2004 11 1258 28

You're So Lucky
2003 07 1362 22

Web Master
1999 10 1932 18

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