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Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Parallel blogs (+7 comments)
Writing parallel blogs is the new big thing. Writing parallel blogs makes you a multi-blogger, a super-blogger, a hyper-blogger . . .

How to write the perfect blog post? (+4 comments)
Easy: understand the medium, give key information first, and say something that inspires discussion. To do this, optimize key parts of the blog post . . .

“Blog” is not good enough (+15 comments)
Some of us have multiple blogs. We use blogs as building blocks for sometime larger than a blog. If you use bricks to build a house, then what is it that you build with blogs? We need a name for this thing . . .

Site feed and the art of web design (+9 comments)
What RSS lets readers do is to take the content out of your site and display it in a minimalist context. Every site has a different “look and feel” which the webmaster lovingly crafts. RSS let’s you bypass all of that and get the pure content . . . Which means, you should read your own blog in an RSS news reader to see how it looks. I got some surprises . . .

Do art and blogging mix? (+3 comments)
I asked Arthur Whitman about his secret for blogging success. He denied he has had much success, but his advice was interesting nonetheless . . .