Ten Useful Blog Postings

This blog has been through a lot, because the person behind this blog has been through a lot. The ten posts I collected below did stand the test of time, because in 2026 someone visited this blog post, however they may not have found what they were looking for as according to Google’s latest, greatest analytics they left without engaging.

This post is now over fifteen years old, but people do still read the advice I’ve provided on a variety of topics. In fact, I think as part of my never ending quest to improve the Quality of this blog, I’ll attempt to improve the taxonomy of this blog post. This blog post was so old, it was pre-Gutenberg editor, even in 2026.

Top 10 Useful Blog Postings

1. Spreadsheets I made you can steal (use) remains a popular post.
2. My advice to CFA® students seems more popular than my advice to MBA students nowadays.
3. Moving to Vancouver and Finding a job, I wrote this to help someone, I’m not sure they ended up moving to Vancouver, but this post helped a number of people and was popular on LinkedIn for a while.
4. I’ve written a lot about looking for a job online and collected the best of that advice into a single post.
5. I collected the best of my online writing advice into it’s own Top 10 style collection.
6. My account of visiting Baidu and my thoughts on their technology and business strategy was one of the first Internet famous things I blogged about.
7. I’d like to think all the time and effort I put into making web mashups with PHP and then giving away most of the code was of use to someone.
8. I’ve actually written way too much PHP and then given it away such as how to merge RSS feeds with SimplePie.
9. Ditto for all the work I put in stopping hotlinkers from stealing all my bandwidth.  A commented on that post spawned this collection.
10. After the inaugural Web Directions North, I turned my resume into an hResume.  Not sure it impressed anyone at Google, though other people have followed my lead or used my template. I’m not a big believer in the one page resume.

Are these blog postings still useful?

Now that it is over a decade later, which is a log time in the blogosphere, what newer better blog posts have I written that people are getting a great deal of utility out of? My recent tour and documentation of said tour of a dozen distilleries in Japan is generating a lot of private messages. Comments seem much rarer in the blogosphere in 2026, so if you have thoughts on Quality, Utility or Economy, the cornerstones of my blogging philosophy you can leave a comment below.

This entry was originaly posted on May 17th, 2011, it was last edited on April 17th, 2026 and is filed under: Advice and tagged: Blogging, Taxonomy, Top 10.