Tag Archive for 'blogging'

State of the blogger in 2009

Ulysse Sabbag | September 13, 2009

The thing about blogging is that there are no rules. Of course, there are some things you must respect like having a good orthography and responding to your readers comments etc. but there are no rules about whether you should or not be objective or subjective; like a journalist. There are no rules about whether your blog should be with two-columns, three, four or completely black and if you want to write two sentences articles; you’re free.

You are your own publisher and you can say whatever you want. Your blog could create a motion expressing the protest of the people. Yes. Yes, really. You can write stuff like “I fuck you all, dickheads”, in another media, you couldn’t. You’d be fired the very next day. Your blog is your responsibility and you do whatever you want with it.
Still, I believe there are different types of bloggers.
I will take two articles. The first is ‘20 types of blog posts’ by the famous ProBlogger blog.
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Posterous, WordPress, Twitter; the blogger’s cycle

Ulysse Sabbag | August 31, 2009

I discovered Posterous the day it was featured on TechCrunch France. When ? Last June 28th (2008). It’s been a long time. I never used it, I thought it was useless; another service like many others so I wasn’t interested. I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Posterous is the key element of your blogging cycle. Here:

posterous-wordpress-twitter

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The dotted arrows means that it isn’t obligatory to stream from this to that.

Twitter keeps track of all your web activity into one, clear, straightforward place. It’s fast, mobile and in real-time.

WordPress, like any other weblog service is complex and not fast. It’s the professional place where you post your blog’s articles. Your blog is a blog about cars, sports, tech, anything, but it’s not personal. When you post, your Twitter account is notified and tweets about your article.

Posterous is your personal stream. It’s faster and easier than WordPress yet richer than Twitter. It’s your web home. Each of your WordPress post could go on Posterous as it is your stream. If you have other social networks such as Flickr or Facebook, it can be streamed to Posterous. It also works in the opposite way. Posterous can autopost to Twitter, Facebook etc.

I forgot to explain Posterous’ blogging system. Just post whatever you want (music, video, text, photo) to post@posterous.com and it will be published.

Posterous is Twitter‘s dad.

From now on, my web life will follow the image above. My Posterous is ulysse.posterous.com

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Chris is so right, read why

Ulysse Sabbag | June 28, 2009

If you feel you can directly get a 6 figure check while running your blogging site, you are sadly mistaken, it takes real efforts to build a site and make it loved by people. if you are thinking just the money online aspect it is going to fetch you no good in future, instead of asking yourself questions like how fastest money would pour in or how I can become famous in short time you should be asking yourself questions like how am I going to get the site that people will love, what type of topics people would love to read, how can I create a site which is user friendly and is suitable for people of all age groups to log in and surf, etc. if you create yourself and earn yourself a niche of a good blogger you can attract much attention then you can really think of.

This is a paragraph of a brilliant piece written by Chris about blogging and making money. That’s as funny as it’s weird because I said quite the same things in the About page.
But think a minute before reading it. It’s called “want great success” not “want a lot of money”.
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