Category Archives: Blogging

Blogging = Easy Money?

For the past year I have grown into what I finally consider a professional blogger.  I started almost 2 years ago just writing newsletters out to my extended family but then Technorati got a hold of my inspiration and I began to see what an established blog was.  I wanted my blog to be that.  [...]

Improve Google and Technorati Rank

When I first started blogging in December of 2006 at Postcards from the Funny Farm, I had no idea how to increase rank or even sign up for many blogging protocol sites like Technorati and Google Webmaster Tools.  Through time I have learned a lot of exciting information about how to get my words out [...]

CAN Blog Goals for October 2008

I measure my 3 blogs’ progress toward goals. You can browse current and past entries in the CAN… category.
CAN stands for:
Circulation: Incoming links.
Analytics: # of visitors
Net: Money made or key takeaways. (Because money isn’t everything.)
I often use shorthand in referring to my blogs:
PFTFF: Postcards from the Funny Farm
DATSOL: Damien at the Speed of Life
DLP: Dynamite [...]

3 Tips for Writing Better Blog Content

Okay, I want to especially thank Justin, an Apache engineer, for helping me out with some backlinks tracking issues.  It pays to have contacts in blogging!
Here are my 3 tips for better content:
1) Don’t create blog topics, Be open and let them come to you.  Carry a yellow pad on a clipboard and/or an mp3 [...]

Blogging Goals September 2008

In another post, I explained my blogging goals have changed.
Here is how I’ll measure progress toward goals.
C - Circulation. My Wordpress dashboard and Google BlogSearch.
A - Association. CoComment.com records every comment I leave.
N - Nod. Blog Safaris are nods.  I’ll simply count them.
I’m starting as over half the month is over so the numbers [...]

Imagineer I Know

I’ve always been fascinated by visionaries.  These are people who have the same raw materials as everyone else and do amazing innovative things with it.  I’ve written extensively on Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, Rod Serling, and many many more innovators.  Watching the amazing Randy Pausch Last Lecture, I learned that the engineers at Disneyland are [...]

New Priorities for Blogging

After much thought, I’ve decided to reinvent my mission statement.  The CAN page has changed and you’ll find the following(below) if you go there.
From the revised CAN page:
It has been said: “If you aim at nothing, you will surely hit it.”
That’s why I rate my own blogs monthly.
It’s also been said that if you do [...]

Angelika Wins a Date With Hugh Laurie

The title is a complete lie.  I swear I wish I could give something that huge back to her though.  Today she gave me 1500 Entrecard credits and wrote a post entirely about me.  My my my, this is a very cool person in my book. The main url of her awesome blog is here. [...]

Damien Interviews Damien at Postcards

My friend Eric Stefani did this sort of thing and I thought it was so appropriate for my 1,000th post celebration.  If you didn’t know, I often live and write wacky … Head over and leave me a comment won’t you?  Thanks for sharing this meaningless moment with me ;) Have a great day folks. [...]

Blog Better Series Intro

I’ve learned so much about the ins and outs of blogging.  Almost into my third year now, I am creating posts to comprise a series on how to “Blog Better.”  From starting a self-hosted Wordpress blog to getting your paragraphs together, this is stuff I have taught myself through trial and error.  I hope you’ll [...]