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Advanced Techniques in Blogging

By Robert Stacy McCain on 3.11.09 @ 12:22PM

There is no justice in the universe, and perhaps even less in the blogosphere. One of my duties during the Conservative Political Action Conference was to act as chaperone/tour guide to a former intern attending her first CPAC. An associate editor for a lifestyle magazine, she found herself being asked repeatedly, "Do you have a blog?"

So a week ago, she decided to start one, after soliciting advice from her "Illustrious Mentor" on installing SiteMeter, etc. And today, she got her first Instalanche -- blogger slang for being linked by Professor Glenn Reynolds a/k/a "Instapundit."

As I explained to her, it took Jammie Wearing Fool six months of blogging before he got his first 'Lanche. Some guys blog for years and never get a 'Lanche. Maybe I should get a new business card printed: "Illustrious Mentor."

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Alan Brooks| 3.11.09 @ 12:59PM

great points.
God, we could write tomes about the chattering classes; you know, if computers had never been invented we could still live good lives, life (or existence) doesn't really get better, just different.
Tell you the truth, I wish I'd ignored computers as a few Gumplican friends of mine did.
They are busy happy-go-lucky people who ignore the cyberworld altogether-- yes there ARE such people still.

So ignorance isn't necessarily all that bad; not bliss, but not as bad as one might think it is.

Alan Brooks| 3.11.09 @ 1:09PM

PS
Naturally the web is very important for scientific research, and all that blather.
However if I were to do my life over (and who wouldn't?) I'd buy a whole ton, literally, of good books and spend the rest of worldly life reading and doing, instead of the internet addiction.
Gump was a decent guy, he was v. simple, but his fishing boat was as good as any number of them thar e-lectronic gizmos..

SL| 3.11.09 @ 1:29PM

It was nice bumping into you at CPAC in the Diamond Ballroom, sir. I hope you recognized me.

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