photo test for borders
Posted in on April 19th, 2007
no border
Now again another test post.
Posted in on February 9th, 2007
This time I’m testing posting to the future.
Another test of line breaks
Posted in on February 2nd, 2007
If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of summer. But if Jane Hoskins ruled the world, every day would be the first day of school. And if Toni McCarthy ruled the world, every day would be the first day of Christmas.
Now, what is going on here? Will I get the mysterious line breaks because of a template change (to Barthelme)?
Where Are the Line Breaks Coming From?
Posted in on February 2nd, 2007
If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of summer. But if Jane Hoskins ruled the world, every day would be the first day of school. And if Toni McCarthy ruled the world, every day would be the first day of Christmas.
Yikes! I’m Being Crawled!
Posted in on February 1st, 2007
Hmmm.
I have three real blogs and two test blogs. I thought the test blogs weren’t supposed to be crawled or to ping any services, but I was wrong. Of all my blogs, this was the first one today to be noticed by Technorati. And it’s only a testbed where I put bogus posts when I’m running any kind of experiment (which I am today as I get to know the Performancing plugin for Firefox.
Where My Real Blogs Are
Posted in on February 1st, 2007
Okay, so if you find this blog through Technorati or Google or ???, here’s where to look for Max Hansen’s real blogs:
The Alpha Mind - my most active blog, the one having to do with my thought leadership business.
The (old) Alpha Mind. As it was before it moved to the new domain. Will be completely inactive after March 1, and until then nothing will go on it that doesn’t also go on the new Alpha Mind. So don’t bother to subscribe to its feed.
christian alternative - my Quaker blog.
Kami Huyse and Connie on the Missing E
Posted in on February 1st, 2007
Connie has appointed herself the champion of the vowel “E”,
which we have seemed to drop in our haste to appear that we “get it” –
or was it because all the best URL’s were already taken? I still love Flickr, but Connie has a point!
Actually, the reason for all those missing “E”s is, as Kami’s link (which I copied) suggests, is that we overused them in the 90s. It’s called E Fatigue, and researchers at Johns Hopkins are looking into it quite closely.
Using Google Alerts To Promote Your Blog
Posted in on February 1st, 2007
For your new blog to go big, you want people to link to it. It helps
if they are important people, but every link, from whomever, helps.
Here’s how to use Google Alerts as a tool in getting links to your
blog.
- Think about things you are interested in writing about that are
both a) subtopics of your blog’s core topic, and b) not too commonly
blogged about. - Create a Google Blog Alert which looks for your search terms. (Did
you even know Google now lets you ask for alerts that search only
blogs?) - Wait.
- When you receive the email alert that someone has blogged about your subtopic, go read their post.
- If it is a good post, immediately blog it to your own blog, adding
your own thoughts. (Tie it to your core topic if the tie isn’t
obvious.) Trackback and/or pingback if it is allowed.
Here’s an example of how I’m using this technique:
Thought leaders (my core topic) have a stake in seeing ideas through
to realization. Groups of various kinds will be involved in the process.
Therefore thought leaders need to understand group dynamics.
Therefore, “Kurt Lewin” and “Wilfred Bion” are sub-topics which
thought leaders ought to know about. Therefore, now and then I will
write about them.And what’s a good way of deciding when to blog about
Kurt Lewin? If your blog is well established and widely read, any old
time is good. But if you’re new, stow away some of your thoughts on
Lewin until someone else opens up the topic. Your Google Alert will
tell you when this has happened, and that’s the time to blog, linking
your own thoughts to the other blogger’s post.
Chances are good that the blogger you link to will ego-surf (as we
all do) and find your post. Chances are decent that he or she will link
back to you. Even if it stops there, you’ve gained a link and possibly
a reader. But you’ve also greatly upped the likelihood that your post
will be part of a real conversation that will involve others. The Holy
Grail!
