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Blogging Hardware: What Are You Using?December 1

My blog ‘Gear’

As a natural born GEEK I have a passion for cool gadgets and just plain high tech stuff.  So when I started blogging I found myself in Nerd Neverland as the different posting ‘needs’ became apparent.  From portability to performance, I needed to have a ‘RIG’ that would allow me to get the job done without too much fuss.  I had recently purchased a MacBook so I was already on my way to blogging bliss!

My current setup.

As I mentioned, I have a fairly new MacBook.  It is usually hooked up to my 22inch widescreen LCD monitor and Apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse.  So I basically use it as a desktop most of the time.  As far as the Operating System, I use Boot Camp to dual boot Mac OSX Leopard with Windows Vista so I can run all my apps natively on the same piece of hardware.  And the great thing is, when I go on a trip (like this past Thanksgiving for example), I am able to bring EVERYTHING with me in a nice, portable package.  So the whole ‘docking station’ setup is proving to be a great way to go!

In addition to my MacBook, I have an iPhone.  This is great for always having easy access to my emails and decent usability with the Internet when necessary.  The iPhone is the first PDA style phone that I would trul

Hints Of Collaboration And Transition for Up-And-Coming-BloggerNovember 26

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post by Sean Platt of Writer Dad who is sharing the first hints of our future collaborative online venture.

One thing most often missing in discussion about web 2.0, is exactly what it is that the two is supposed to include. It isn’t just audio, video, or any of the million other things that make the modern web a more immersive experience. It is also that we have witnessed a mammoth migration in the thought process of the common blogger.

It’s easy to lose sight, blogging is a medium still in diapers, and we can only hypothesize its direction. When blogs first started, not too long ago, they were little more than online diaries; an instant conduit from living room to world at large. As the term Problogger, began to envy the weight of the word entrepreneur, our preconceptions were first relaxed, then redefined.

Modern blogs are constantly showing us that anything is possible. This infinite possibility quite easily leading us toward limitless confusion. Searching for a single source to hold our hand through the dim days of our beginning, or those midd

3…2…1…Ignition!November 24

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Blogopolis bristles from changing wind, whistling through the Internet with new, creative content.  Some of that wind is whispering here.

This Wednesday, Sean Platt of Writer Dad, blogging buddy and constant collaborator, will be sprinkling a few words on these pages to illuminate the future of Up-And-Coming-Blogger.  In the second section of our ProBlogger guest posts, Sean and I mentioned that we were pooling ourselves on a project.  We are, it’s big, and on Wednesday, we’ll drop the first hints.  Be here Wednesday, be the first to know.

Random Posting Vs The Structure Of A Series?November 17

The way I see it, there are 3 general categories that make up this topic:

1. Random posting.
2. Mixed. (Series and random)
3. Series.

It seems that most bloggers have a mix of the bunch, but some go more in one direction or the other.

Leo Babauta of zenhabits, for example, rarely has an official series on his blog.  Darren Rowse of problogger, though, mixes it up with many random posts along with the occasional series.  And Barbara Swafford of bloggingwithoutablog fills her week with mostly series based posts (though she still publishes a few non-series posts as well).

Over at “Motivate Thyself” I’ve usually been in the #2 category by mixing it up.  I’ve been writing the Motivate2ACTION! series for a few months now and the ‘Community Insight‘ series for a few weeks.  And today I just published the

Staff Blogging: Get Paid To Practice Your BloggingNovember 10

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post by Ali Hale of The Office Diet and Alpha Student.

Google Adsense, writing ebooks, affiliate sales … all great ways to make money from blogging, but not generally big cash-cows when you’re just starting out. I’m a pretty typical small-time blogger: I’ve been writing The Office Diet since January 2008, and launched Alpha Student in September but have fewer than 1,000 subscribers total, and haven’t yet received my first Google Adsense check…

However, I’m paying my rent (and more) each month through blogging – by getting paid to write for several blogs that are much bigger than mine.

What’s Staff Blogging?

If you’ve read a few blogs, chances are you’ve read some posts written by “staff bloggers” – people who, like me, write posts for pay. Any blog which has a number of different regular authors uses staff bloggers. Here are just a few examples in several different fields:

• Freelance