Posts Tagged Blogging

The Writing Secrets Conspiracy Theorists Don’t Want You To Know

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Photo by The Sunday Sport

This post will change your life. It will shake your beliefs to the core.

Make sure you read this quickly. I’m not sure how long it’ll stay up before the CIA, Illuminati and those Lizard Men that David Icke dribbles about will find this and shut it down.

The information I have to share with you is so sensitive, I dare not put it on the front page of my website. So check who’s standing behind you, run your spyware filter and prepare to clear your cache. Then click more. Good Luck.

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Your Blog Bores the Arse Off Me

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Photo by Andrew Nattan

Hi there. You don’t know me too well, but maybe you should. I’m your audience.  I’m the guy who subscribes to your blog via RSS, retweets your posts and leaves you the odd comment. But let me tell you a secret. I’m doing those things more out of habit at the moment. Why?

Because your blog is boring me to tears. And if you don’t get a grip, then it’s over between us.
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ReTweeting – A Handy Guide (for the benefit of Lisa Barone)

Given that Lisa Barone’s doom-laden hyperbole has spread through Twitter faster than a case of the clap, you may well have read that Twitter’s New ReTweet Feature Sucks.

Apparently, the new RT button (that you don’t have to use and have survived without for the past year or so) is the harbinger of the apocalypse. That’s right. War, Death, Famine and Poor ReTweet Functionality are upon us, and the end of days is here.
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Five Clichés to Create Quick Content

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Photo by Jonas B

I know it’s good form to avoid clichés wherever possible, but we’ve all had days when we know we need to pick up a pen or settle in at the keyboard and just don’t feel creative. Luckily, bloggers the world over have developed cunning methods that allow them to put out a few hundred words of decent, usable content without the effort of re-inventing the wheel.  We just open up the clichés folder and let her rip.

The next time you’re having a brain drain, or you’ve run headfirst into severe writer’s block, use one of these little tricks of the trade.
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