Jakob Nielsen’s advice on blogging holds up pretty well with the passage of time. Jakob Nielsen is considered by many to be the guru on website usability. He can also come across as dogmatic and unwilling to compromise or to allow for artistic creativity. I prefer Steve Krug and his book. None the less, I tried to incorporate Jokob’s advice and to that end added a picture of myself in the sidebar when he originally advocated it. However it is his night point which inspired this blog post…

While making the rounds through my RSS feeds I read at China Venture News how there are 5 million bloggers in China now but they expect 60 million by the end of 2006. This rapid growth is in spite of some governmental policies to restrict the freedom of information in China, particularly the Great Firewall of China…

Some people are obsessed with the popularity of their blog, trying to acquire ever higher rankings and vanity metrics. As a result a lot gets written on how to make a blog more popular. I don’t think popularity should be the reason you do anything, especially writing…

Although not the most electrifyingly original posting title, I’m running with it. I’ve written before how people actually read the crap I write, no matter how trivial or dubious, especially the dubious…

By way of Church of the Customer I was directed to the Boston Globe for an article on how blogging can benefit your career. So according to them I’m not wasting my time, of course my blog isn’t very focussed. Maybe my latest and most extensive revisions will make it more focussed but I don’t think any amount of effort will ever make the ROI positive…