Quoted: I admit it. Until a few weeks ago, Tuesday nights found me repeatedly dialing the toll-free number for American Idol, voting for Sanjaya. A terrible singer, perhaps, but thousands of American TV viewers delighting in keeping him around week after week. And really, there was no harm in it - the more talented singers on the show will no doubt be signed

Quoted: Just a quick note to all the web designers and developers out there: Head on over to A List Apart and take their 2007 Web Design Survey. You'll help generate some useful data about our industry, and also have a chance to win event tickets, an iPod, or other swag. If you're like me, you've probably spent hours reading ALA's articles over the years, so

Quoted: I was invited aboard the Technorati Train by Char at Essential Keystrokes. (Char blogs about design and marketing, and she's written some great stuff, be sure to check her out.) If you haven't seen this meme making the rounds, the idea is to build your number of "favorites" on Technorati and discover some new blogs in the process. I'm usually

Quoted: Following Matt Cutts' recent announcement that Google will allow users to report paid links, Andy Beard has taken the bold step of submitting his own content to Google's webspam team, in the hope of getting some official statement out of Google. I certainly hope he gets a response, but it seems unlikely. The disturbing truth is that the only noise

Quoted: How much thought do you give to the anchor text used on your blog or web site? I'm not talking about the anchor text of your incoming links, but the anchor text you use in every post to link out to your fellow bloggers. All of us are guilty, from time to time, of being lazy with our anchor text. Using descriptive words in your links can actually have

Quoted: It's been one month since I added the top commentators links to the sidebar, and it clearly impacted the number of comments on this blog. Despite my less-than-prolific output in lately (only 3 posts in the month of March), there were 3 times as many comments in the past month as in any previous month. There's no doubt in my mind that the top commentators

Quoted: It's great to learn from your mistakes, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others. Here (in no particular order) are 47 posts from bloggers who share their blogging mistakes, and what they've done to correct them: I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory My Biggest

Quoted: One of my earliest blogging mistakes was underestimating the importance of RSS feeds, both for readers and for my own sanity. I'd never used a feed reader, and I didn't know anyone who had. Having never subscribed to a feed myself, I did nothing to promote my own feed - it was practically invisible. Fortunately I soon saw the light. Building a base