My blog has reached 1000 visits in about 6 weeks. Not too shabby considering I have not told any friends or family about it. Thanks to you for the visits, be you friend, random visitor, follower of celebrity tweet or spam-bot. Drinks are on me. Here’s to me becoming an Internet blogging sensation and quitting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part of the reason for starting this blog is to investigate and understand the world of social media. Posting my thoughts to a blog that nobody reads is not going to hold my interest for very long. I know because this is the fourth blog I have started, none of the other three seeing more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A look at the early days of starting up a new blog and the experience of using Twitter, StumbleUpon and Digg to promote the blog and gain readership.
Technorati is a blog directory with an intriguing ranking system. Here are my experiences and thoughts after about 6 weeks of being listed.
My participation in forums has always been inconsistent. I tend to read a lot more than I write, but then I will go through little bursts of increased participation. Ultimately my activity has never been to the level of being recognized as a regular or “one of the gang”, but I do enjoy being a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have already touched on Twitter in past articles, but there is one particular aspect of Twitter that has become the Holy Grail: the celebrity tweet. It is a pretty obvious concept that something tweet by a popular twitter user is going to be seen by a lot of people and therefore have some sort […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I indicated in my post from last week about Twiends I am looking at the results of a small burst of Twiends activity after one week.
This one unexpectedly fell into my lap. I received an email offering $100 worth of ads free, which I dismissed immediately. But the idea kept spinning around in the back of my brain and when I received a second email about the promotion I jumped on it. Now that the campaign has run its course […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ever wonder where the term pasteurization came from. Well, it came from this guy. He discovered the way to keep things like milk and wine from making people sick. Great job, totally useful. Without him I would have to stop drinking wine.
Thanks to WordPress.com for providing the following summary. It was a fun first year (well, half year) for One Good Minute. I still do not understand the Internet’s obsession with Rizzo the Rat. Here’s to more great stuff in 2011. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
