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Consumption Malfunction reaching for the stars

September 23rd 2009 00:28

The blogosphere has been abuzz for some time now watching the rise and rise of the Consumption Malfunction blog.

Ever since it won the illustrious South-Eastern Milky Way Award for Hope and Mixed Messages in 2008, Consumption Malfunction has been forging its way up what is widely accepted as the most important indicator of blogging respect in the cosmos, the Orble Most Popular list.

It stands at Number 11. Fortunes have been bet on the hour and the minute it pushes into the Top 10.

Will it reach Number 1, pushing past the pencil-is-mightier-than-the-s word Morgan and the delightful frightful Bryn? Only time will tell, but followers of blogs everywhere are watching with fascination.

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Do's and don'ts for young bloggers

July 8th 2009 20:14

Here are some simple rules for new bloggers.

Don't start unless you mean to go on. Blogging is a brave new publishing world but the internet is littered with abandoned blogs. It's a lot of fun until the novelty wears off and then it becomes serious work. Blogs are hungry pets; good blogs are voracious creatures. A blog is a long-term commitment.

Do start by writing. Don't worry about designing a banner, choosing a font colour or learning everything there is to know about search engine optimisation. It's all about content. Sign up at Orble or Blogger, or buy your domain name and install Wordpress, and start writing immediately. Worry about the bells and whistles later.

Don't write about everything under the sun. The blogging world doesn't work like that. Build readership by choosing a core subject and writing about it. Inform, educate and entertain and people will come to your blog. If you are passionate about two different subjects, start two blogs.

Do take time to put some spit and polish on your posts. It's a competitive world out there and the quickest way to appeal to the widest audience is to write clearly and cleanly.

Don't give up. The hardest time is the first six months and the second hardest period is the second six months. Etcetera. As we said earlier, blogging is a long-term commitment, and it is remarkable, and sad, how many people get through the early days of putting up content for a handful of readers, and then give up.

Hang in there, and success will come. The blogging world works like that.

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The exhausted blogger

June 5th 2009 05:58

My huge following of fans, and I'd like to thank both of you, constantly asks me to write more in the way of advice for people in small business.

I have always wanted to work for myself — to be answerable to no-one and reliant on nothing except my own skills and determination and will to wrestle with procrastination and win. It's been a lifelong dream and, showing an aptitude and canny understanding for business practices, I waited until 2009 and the world's greatest economic miasma to launch my company.

After four months, however, we here at Salient Point corporate blogging services have survived. Leaders of MBA courses at the world's elite universities ring regularly to learn our secrets, and the police watch constantly, convinced that anyone prospering in this business environment must have friends in the underworld.

They are all destined for disappointment, for my success is due to honest endeavour, and I have decided to reveal the secret for that success right here, exclusively to you.

I have found that the secret to business success is hard work. By hard work, I mean that, first, one must cut back drastically on the time spent playing Freecell and, second, one must write at least eight blog posts a day.

Do you find this figure shocking? Let me tell you that I do, and as fellow bloggers I'm sure you do too. I thought a blogging services consultancy would be like writing a few fun posts for Orble except people pay you for it. Instead, and this is the hard thing to grasp, running this business is more like a full-time job.

I need a holiday.

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Blog writer wanted

June 3rd 2009 01:09

Candidates should be female, aged 29-39, and resident of Melbourne, Australia.

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Is blogging the future of everything?

May 28th 2009 08:10

A few weeks ago I wrote a post here entitled "Will blogging rule the world?" It evoked a lot of discussion, and I have found myself thinking about the question ever since. This opinion piece is the result, looking at changes that the digital age and, in particular, blogging, may bring to many things that we now take for granted. It is the first of a two-part series, with the second instalment to cover media, publishing and opinion leadership.

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Will blogging rule the world?

April 15th 2009 04:34

the future of journalism - big call! although maybe thats what people are crying out for, more conversational, interactive news . . . something that a telecaster in a box cant provide maybe thats what people are crying out for, more conversational, interactive news. something that a telecaster in a box cant provide

Morgan Bell wrote the above comment in response to a quote on an earlier Bloggercises post by Mary Jo Foley, the widely known and read author of the All About Microsoft blog. Foley said, "For me, the future of journalism is blogging

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Quote: blogging is ...

April 14th 2009 22:52

Blogging is the new poetry

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Dear Mr Google, please explain

March 23rd 2009 23:02

Just when I thought I was coming to terms with the slippery slope of AdSense methodology, I uncover evidence that everything I thought I knew may have to be discarded.

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AdSense and other questions

March 21st 2009 07:48

AdSense can be confusing, and after a reasonable amount of research there is still much I don't know. However, I can offer the following. It's not the full story, but I'll aim to answer some common questions.

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English. RIP

March 20th 2009 17:31

Vincent van Gogh, Sorrow (1882)

The language as we know it is doomed. The pressures of change have grown until they are irresistible. Twitter may be the straw which breaks the back of English. Perhaps it is it too late. Language as we knew it

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World wide words

March 14th 2009 00:42

One of the things novice bloggers don't get warned about is the danger of touching people.

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Minding my own business

March 13th 2009 08:34

I can draw breath. A very deep breath. After two weeks of frenzy, the new business has both a finished web page and its own corporate blog.

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I am in business 5

March 3rd 2009 06:54

You are at the beginning of the end of my story about my new business (and the one-man organisational dynamo who is my partner).

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Blogging Weekly

February 12th 2009 08:58

It's been a big blogging week. It has had highs, it has had a bitter low, and as always it has provided some blogging lessons.

The low was a failure to win a paid blogging position. More spit and polish went into that job application than any in a career which now stretches over a disturbingly long time. This was a job which I was convinced I could do exceptionally well, and I crafted an application which I believed would convince an intellectually impaired lump of coal of that fact

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