Category Archives: Blogging
Nov 12, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Blogging
Sideblogs are “mini-blogs” that allow you to share links and write short updates to your readers.
Speedlinking is a method of posting. When you Speedlink, you round-up a collection of links to other blogs’ posts that you think would be interesting/useful to your readers.
The question is: Which is better for you?
Sideblogs
- Sideblogs are quick to update
- Sideblogs are instantaneous. You see something, you add it to your sideblog, and it’s out there for everyone to see. With speedlinking, you round-up your links then publish them all at once every week or so.
- Sideblogs allow you to post other things besides links.
Speedlinking
- Speedlinker posts show up in you main feed. Sideblog entries generally don’t.
- Speedlinker posts tend to get a lot of views and linkbacks. Also, everyone likes a big list of links.
- Speedlinking gives you a break. It’s real easy to write a short list of links, and a few notes about them.
Personally, I like both. I speedlink and I have a sideblog. I use the sideblog for timely links that can’t wait until the end of the week, as well as for quick updates and things that can’t be expanded into a full-blown post. My speedlinker posts, known as “BlogBuzz,” handle the rest of my linking needs.
Nov 11
How do you blog currently? Do you just enter your post and hit publish? Sure, that works fine, but there’s a better way. Most blog software includes a Time Stamp feature that allows you to write your post ahead of time and have it…
Nov 2
Asides. Sideblogs. Microblogging. Whatever you want to call it, there are many ways to implement the idea. There are different methods of displaying the asides, and there are different methods code-wise of setting them up. Let’s take a look at both. Styling Asides “Asides”…
Oct 21
ProBlogger Darren Rowse is credited for “inventing” Speedlinking. When you Speedlink, you round-up a collection of links to other blogs’ posts that you think would be interesting/useful to your readers. Here are a couple of examples: Speedlinking – 18 October 2007 BlogBuzz October 18,…
Oct 18
“The Trackback is dead,” many are saying. Others (including me) think that the trackback/pingback is alive and well. Trackbacks, as Paul O’Flaherty says, are more valuable to him than comments. Depending on their preferences, bloggers either enable or disable trackbacks. Big bloggers, like John…
Oct 14
Imagine this scenario: You have a personal, and somewhat random, blog that you write on for about six months, then you decide that you want to start a new blog on a specific topic instead (or in addition to) so all those people don’t…
Oct 10
Don’t you just hate it when you have a great idea for a blog post, but by the next day you’ve forgotten it? Don’t deny it, it happens. Just yesterday I had not one, but two great ideas for posts. Do I remember either…
Oct 4
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Oct 1
What is a blog? Can it be defined? I’ve been blogging for about two years, and I still have trouble describing what a blog is. I’m sure most bloggers do as well. However, get this straight: “Blog” does not mean “online journal” (webjournals as…
Sep 24
Yesterday (September 23), I logged into my WordPress Admin panel to tweak something in my theme. In the “Recent Links” area on the dashboard, I saw a link marked “Is Web Design an Art?” I knew I’d previously written a post by that name…
