July 2007

According to Technorati there are currently over 70 million blogs in existence and roughly 15 million of these blogs are active. An active blog just means a blog that is being updated regularly and has some active readers. For any active blog, the most sought after metrics are visits, links and of course, comments. Unfortunately, most of those 15 million active blogs don’t receive many comments or links and end up being buried in the noise of the blogosphere. This article will show you how to give your articles a leg up in the clutter of the blogosphere.

So one day last week, my dear friend Laura drops a bombshell on me. Seems she’s decided to chuck her writing career to become a milkmaid. Or a farmer in the dell. Or something like that.

Clearly, she’s nuts.

Or is she?

How many people do you know who have decided to throw caution to the wind and start a new gig? I know about 80,002. I’m in the career college industry where people make conscious “do-over” decisions all the time.

by Matt Kluemper
If it seems like Google is taking over the world, well, that is because it is well on its way.

Search and Google – now a worldwide powerhouse – is evolving into the telephone, providing users with search results even if they are miles away from a computer.

Web 2.0 has been getting a lot of attention lately. Some are heralding it as the future of the Internet. There are seminars taught on it. There are even some companies requiring it for job applicants. All of the attention doesn't go very far in actually telling us what it is or what it does, though. More confusing still, there's no actual definition anywhere out there, not even from the coiners of the term, that spells out what Web 2.0 is, so you'll find hundreds of different interpretations of it strewn across the Internet. So what is Web 2.0? Inquiring minds want to know.