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by robpurdie

The New News

Do you think Google should help people find articles and posts from the news companies that are suing them over copyright issues? The search giant has no choice but to send traffic to people who are willing to make their content available on generous terms, and to avoid indexing content that others claim copyright to. This has always been a factor driving online citizen journalism. It turns out that corporations, nonprofit organizations, religious groups, and political campaigns can also be journalists, and that their journalism can have just as much influence as citizen journalists or media moguls if it’s well researched and well produced.

The Origins of Newsblogging

“Newsblogging” is a term I more or less invented to describe a style of blogging we stumbled onto in 2007, and then refined at the online PR firm, Patron Saint Productions. Our process was innovative and our results were extraordinary, so I spun the service off into a separate company in 2010. I partnered with a former employee, David Reich, to create SixEstate Communications. I believe that newsblogging will rapidly spread in the coming years and we’ll see an increasing proportion of… Continue reading

Do you have a blog with few or no readers? Are your blog posts without comments? Posting rich content regularly and not having people coming to read them can be very discouraging. The beauty of having a working blog is expressed in its ability to draw active readers and comments. Now, you can smile because below are simple but effective blogging tips on how to increase your blog readers and comments.

1. Find a loyal reader and commenter

Find someone who believes in you and would want to support you in your blogging. This can be a friend or a relative.  Comments from this person will draw visitors to read your post and will encourage them to also leave comments. When I started, I got my sister to read and leave comments on my blog posts.

2. Find blog buddies

You are not the only one in need of more blog readers and comments. Search for these bloggers and connect with them. Offer to exchange favours, that if they would subscribe to your blog and leave comments on each posts, you would do likewise on their blogs. Comments leave good impression about your blog… Continue reading

In most cases, writing a post for your blog is quite different from other writing you normally do on the Internet. A blog is more of a diary/fast information or news kind of site that people go to for up-to-date information on the topic, or to get some advice or opinion from an expert.Here are some proven tips for writing great blog posts that will keep your visitors coming back time and time again for more.Blogging Tip # 1: Keep It Short.People can get very easily distracted, so a short blog post can have a lot more effect than a long one. If you have a lot to say about a topic, then it is better to break it down into two or three posts instead of keeping it as one that is too lengthy.If you find that you need to write a long post, and can’t break it up into pieces, remember to make it very readable by adding bullet points, images or a numbered sequence.You can also make it more readable by bolding words and adding a lot of subtitles. Most people will be scanning through the information; this makes it easier for them to find… Continue reading

Every blogger knows that we are nothing without our readers so it is very important to get new readers everyday but it is equal or more important to grip the ones who come to our blog once in a while. What can we do? Here are some tips that will help you to achieve it: 1. Shorter = better. This is almost a rule and I break it sometimes in spite of knowing that it is quite important to write short and concise posts. It happens to me that when I find and interesting but excessively long post usually I get bored of reading and I give up without reading the whole text. I talked about it with my friend Cheeky Chubby (you must have a blog, you missed a link ) he reminded me that sometimes I write too long posts and I know it my friend, but sometimes I write and write and write… 2. You must use lists, like I’m doing now. Readers like list, they love to have the information organized and easy to read. 3. Try to write on one idea per post. Don’t mix two or three different topics in the same… Continue reading