When Nothing to Blog
If there is no topic to blog today, how about try thinking about these ideas: Event? Will it be a conference, meetup, or events coming soon? If so, write about it. What is the propose? Who will come?...
View ArticleTopics Selection Guidelines
The entry of previous day Picture in Shanghai got a lot of comments. Let me explain more. One’s Imagination v.s. Fact I wrote about “depressed” because there are a lot of tough decisions to make on the...
View ArticlePrivacy of Blogging
Yesterday night, we discussed about what to blog and what not to. I found many bloggers treat blog as a private diary and wrote something that they will never tell anybody into the blog. I don’t think...
View ArticleA Blog is All About a Person
What happened to this blog? Why it is shifting away from its propose – a blog about “Events (in Shanghai) that affect my life (and others’)”? Why there is an entry as short as this one: Productivity...
View ArticleToo Many Entries in a Blog
Wendy complained to me. She has a friend relating to Shanghai. She wanted to share some information about Shanghai with him. She thought my blog is a good place to get started, but later, she found out...
View ArticleHow to Start a Blog?
This is my answer to my friend who is going to start a blog, and asked me how to get started. He is thinking about WorldPress but concerned that it may be banned from China. It is great news that you...
View ArticleLulu.com to Turn Blog into Book
lulu.com is a great service. They offer personal publishing. Just like MovableType offers online personal publishing, they actually publish the book! Some interesting features I like: ISBN With 99 USD,...
View ArticleWrite Articles, Not Blog Postings
Jacob Nielson (the usability Guru) wrote a recent article named Write Articles, Not Blog Postings. The article is very well written. To treat every entry on the blog as an standalone article that is...
View ArticleDon’t Force Me to Write on Topics
From time to time, I saw frustrated readers commenting on this blog about less coverage of a “very important topic”. Here is one example: yeah…what about China? Hmm….well let’s see. How about more than...
View ArticleApproaching 10 Years of Blogging
I am approaching the 10th anniversary of my blogging – 10 years, and one article almost everyday. Should I be known as a 10 year blogger after 100 years? I am thinking about what to do at the tenth...
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