Tibu Puiu from the Lost Art of Blogging asked me to check out his post on the “7 Blogging Beginning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them.” Although I agree with much of what he says, I’ve decided to play devil’s advocate here and see what counterarguments I can find against his points. I’ve listed Puiu’s headings below followed by my counterarguments.

You’ve probably heard the latest tech news: Google launched its presentations tool WordPress 2.3 was released, offering tagging Yahoo bought Zimbra for $350 million Adobe announced a tech comm suite of RH, FM, Capt., Flash, and Acrob. AuthorIt released a new version (not sure what it offers) The One Child Per Laptop (OCPL) program is underway The Tech Crunch conference announced tons of new products … more »

One of the blogs I enjoy reading is Beth Long’s Spork in the Road. Beth, who I knew from the Suncoast chapter, is interested in the intersection of the creative and the technical. As I remember, she was writing a novel when I left, and was very focused on it. She also had a very enviable job creating fictional text for an online game. Here’s … more »

Scott Abel’s The Content Wrangler has a cool example of using AJAX (asynchronous javascript) in his blog to increase usability. Kevin Shoesmith is the blog designer behind the Wrangler’s makeover. I’m really impressed by the new site design, particularly the AJAX functionality. (Here’s Scott’s more detailed explanation of AJAX.) Overall the site looks more professionally organized and designed than it was before. The software running … more »