Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice [...]

Self proclaimed experts continue to insist that jobseekers should blog. I’ve written well over 1000 blog posts and I have to say the more I blogged, the worse my so called career has gone. Other people may have benefited from blogging, but it isn’t advantageous nor necessary for everyone to blog. To paraphrase a famous [...]

I’m not sure when it happened, but in the last few days Facebook sharing, the little buttons under each blog post has broken, throwing a little red “error”. I’ve also noticed this behaviour in my new aggregators and I’ve ignored it and hoped it would go away after all many Facebook sharing buttons are still [...]

There is a lot of advice in the blogosphere on how to make your blog better or more popular. I’m not so sure there is a one to one relationship between quality and popularity which many people assume there is. Sometimes increased popularity is uncomfortable or problematic, whereas increased quality is almost entirely positive. One [...]

Some people are obsessed with their online popularity. Klout, PageRank, hits, fans, likes, etc. are all seen as validation that you’re cool and popular.  I want to reveal a little secret that is guaranteed to temporarily increase you blog’s popularity. Find an excuse to post pictures of attractive Asian women.  Some people don’t need an [...]