The Art of Stress-free Blogging : This post on Web Worker Daily reminds me of why I should be reading that blog more often. If you have heard of or read the ever-popular productivity book Getting Things Done, by David Allen, you will enjoy this post by Leo Babuata. He goes through the steps to perform and outlines the common gotchas and missteps to avoid. I use the “email bookmarks, thoughts and lists” bit all the time but I use the draft feature in GMail instead of crowding my inbox. I also tend to have spurts of “processing times” when I do stuff related to blogging but since I am so pressed for time, their start and end times tend to vary wildly depending on the day. I “process to empty” twice a day and have schooled myself to do a brain dump every couple of hours either into my […]

WeblogToolsCollection.com has vanished from the Technorati index. I have sent support emails and have received nothing more than the canned responses. This blog shows up fine in my watchlist and it is also displayed correctly under “My Blogs” on the homepage but that is where I lose it. The blog page says that it is not indexed and I have quit trying to fix it. This is one company I have a hard time figuring out. They seem to yo yo between very useful, fully in control of their fortunes and their company to down in the doldrum dumps with very little direction within the blink of an eye. I imagine the people that work there must also go through similar vacillations in their work lives and it must be very difficult to endure. I have had contact with many of the folks at Technorati over the years and all […]

Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue: TechCrunch has an interesting link to a study performed by a couple University of Texas Ph.D students in association with Chitika. The study claims that the top 50,000 blogs made somewhere near the astronomical total of $500 million in revenue in the 2006 fiscal year. The linked PDF is very short and the double exponential model that was used to fit (model) the values looks sloppy enough in the short description that it would not stand up well to a peer review. Chitika’s presence and promotion via this study is also quite evident. Frankly, I am surprised that The University of Chicago has allowed their name to be publicly associated with this study considering their heritage and authority in the statistics and economics educational disciplines [EDIT] I stand corrected, the study is from the University of Texas. Thanks AJay in the […]