Learning from experience and turning failure into success
A lot of business/marketing/webmaster blogs are filled with speculation - sales-speak which defines success with a subject in generic terms.
Success is nothing more than working hard and focusing on your subject. Apparently.
I disagree - success with anything comes from experience, and a big part of that experience comes from doing things *wrong*.
That means wasting [...]
How long before citizen journalism is faked?
The BBC lauds the contribution of user generated media - photos, video, etc, not least in the recent spate of flooding to hit the UK.
As a viewer, it was brilliant being able to access images of places I knew, photographed by old neighbours and published on the BBC website.
But here’s the stark stark warning - [...]
10 reasons why my sites suck - do yours?
It gets just a little intimidating when I read of publishers earning over $1000 a day for a single site, and other sites generating hundreds of thousands of visits per day.
Especially as I’m doing nowhere near either with any of my sites.
So what am I doing wrong?
Just a cursory examination of some similar sites in [...]
Some more great Wordpress Plugins
Writing on the fly here - but in an attempt to help make my sites more useful and professional looking, I’ve just applied a couple of key Wordpress plugins for some of the sites, and will finish the rest later:
Daily Top Posts - allows the display of most popular posts today, and of all time
WP-Email [...]
Wordpress: Images with excerpt in categories
So bloody annoying - you run a news site, include images with the post, then set up excerpts in your categories a) because it’s easier to read, and b)to minimise duplication of content.
But the image you post with your story doesn’t display with the excerpt…
Just spend a while this evening trying to crack this (or [...]
