As previously mentioned, in my choosing a premium wordpress theme post, Blogging Review is running on the Thesis Theme. I was already a big fan of Thesis and today my adoration has been amplified.
Chris Pearson just announced some fantastic new updates taking Thesis to version 1.2. These changes and additions really fill in the small gaps on my WordPress theme wish list adding even more value to my purchase.
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So Google performed an update to its toolbar PageRank this past weekend. It’s always nice to get a visual snapshot of my site’s PageRank but that is all it is, a snapshot.
I’m an avid reader of various webmaster blogs and forums and it seems every time the Google toolbar is updated I see a gross amount of incorrect statements being made about PageRank as if they were fact. So if you will, I’m going to take this opportunity to cover a few PageRank misconceptions.
1. A Toolbar Update Is Not A PageRank Update
It seems a lot of people think PageRank only updates every few months when Google updates the green PageRank bar. This is not true. In fact, the internal Google PageRank (the one that impacts SERPs) is constantly updating. The green toolbar PageRank is simply a rounded snapshot of data pushed to the toolbar.
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In a pretty bold move Brian Gardner, the premium Revolution Theme creator, announced that he is going open source. The Revolution Theme is one of the first premium themes to really gain traction and is probably the most popular to be released yet. Brian spells it all out on his his blog covering the details regarding the new open source content and his already paid customers.
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Brian Clark just published a fantastic post at Lateral Action titled Tyler Durdin’s 8 Rules of Innovation. The post takes inspiration from the personality of Tyler Durdin, the free spirit character in the movie Fight Club. Brian extracts some of the character’s lines to craft a list of rules that promote a methodology of creating innovation and remarkable work. He did a really nice job putting it together and it is well worth the read.
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Today we’re going to cover the basics of live blogging and what it has to offer.
What is Live Blogging?
The term is a literal one and the premise is simple. Live blogging takes place when a blogger covers an event in real time. Typically the event will be something along the lines of a conference, sporting event, leisure trip or other news worthy event. The execution of a live blog is typically done in one post that is updated on the fly with a segmented time line of comments. If the event occurs over multiple days it would be common to have a new blog post for each day.
What are the Benefits of Live Blogging?
In the right circumstances live blogging provides a much richer experience for the reader over a typical blog summary and review post. The concept is most effective when the blogger is covering an event that a large segment of the reading audience would like to have attended in person. By offering live coverage the blog’s readers get to experience the event with the blogger as a sole source of information or as a supplement to larger media coverage. Live blogging requires skilled execution but when performed effectively it can build additional reader loyalty and provide unique and quality content to a blog.
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