Posted by Xiaohua on Sep 30, 2008 in
Rants I was reading the comment section of an MMO blog, and one of the people commenting was concerned. The blogger had written that he’d made $1500 on a blog flip, and the commenter figured this represented “only” $25 per hour (it turned out to be more like $70 per hour).
I think it’s great the blogger made $70 per hour instead of $25, but what would have been so… Continue reading about What's so bad about $25 per hour?
Posted by Xiaohua on Sep 26, 2008 in
Don'ts One of the first things I notice on a blog is the little RSS Feed subscription icon. On some blogs it is just a generic icon, while other blogs have a little Feedburner icon that displays the number of RSS subscribers the blog has – and this is where serious lameness can occur.
Think about it. If you have more than say, 500 or so subscribers, that’s pretty good… Continue reading about Lame Feedburner Counts
Posted by Xiaohua on Sep 26, 2008 in
Blogs I just found this site, Standout Blogger and have to say something about it. This blog gets just about everything right. It has a solid design, it loads fast, the blogger writes very well without grammar or spelling errors, and he doesn’t go on and on about how wonderful his ideas are. In fact, the only regrettable thing I found about this site was a post indicating that he… Continue reading about Example of a GOOD blogging blog
Posted by Xiaohua on Sep 26, 2008 in
Uncategorized Welcome to My Blogging Journal. When a friend asked me to take a look at his personal finance site and comment on it, I checked out lots of other sites as well so I could compare his site with others. While I found a lot of really good sites, I also found a lot that frankly are pretty lame. The sad thing is, most of the lame sites seem… Continue reading about Hello world!