Tag Archives: blogging

Optimizing urls for Twitter

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But then again: that’s a rule of the game – and if your aim is to promote semantically rich urls in your Twitter-feed, you just better keep them below 30 characters. It’s hard enough to limit the praising of a given link to 140 characters.

So, what are the more concrete implications of this?
Well, looking at my own permalinks (that have annoyed me for some time now) – I now have another reason for skipping those non-semantical parts of the permalink: http://blog.heick.nu/archives/2008/04/. That’s 38 characters right there – and I can be pretty damn sure that any link from this blog posted on Twitter is going to be tinyurlified…
Still even if I (when) change my permalinks to the shortest possible form: http://blog.heick.nu/%postname% – I only have 10 chars to do with.
In any case – In the future, I might just start shortening my urls to make them Twitter-friendly…

Is that called Social Media Optimization? SMO?

Digital Frontier – the doors are open

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A couple of months ago I sat down with a group of former colleagues from the SEO company formerly known as Notabene.net. While bemoaning the fact that a lot of the interesting news we shared with each other at our desks didn’t go further than sporadic messenger conversations and emails, the idea of a blog collaboration project arose.
As we were all thoroughly brain washed to believe that the world revolves around SEO, SEM, and ROI, it was an easy task to pick the focus of our blog. But as we have now branched out in different directions, our information intake will probably be mirrored by our respective jobs and activities.
So without further ado, I invite you to come see us at the Digital Frontier – read, comment, share.
Be warned though, that we write in danish and only about really interesting stuff…

New Theme: Amazing Grace

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I’ve been in want for a new theme for a while, so when Amazing Grace was reviewed over on Theme Playground magic happened.

There’ll probably be some changes to the theme in the near future and I’m also considering restructuring my rather lame URLs – I’m just hoping that the fantastic plugin redirection will make the change a bit less of a 404-nigthmare for search engine traffic :-)

And yes, I know there’s an issue with my description – I’ve been trying to move it to the left but time of night and lacking skills are determining factors in this matter. CSS buffs: input welcome ;-)

Update:

I left a comment at the theme author and – voila – the issue was fixed within 5 minutes.

…I’m really starting to like this whole internet/blogging thing.

blogging og politisk mainstream

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Selvom blogs og blogging er eksploderet det seneste år herhjemme, er vi stadig langt bagved den måde blogs bruges politisk ovre på den anden side af dammen. Jeg ser frem i mode den dag hvor man inviterer en stak bloggere ind for at liveblogge politiske debatter:
Inside the debate spin room with Gather.com’s bloggers

- må håbe linket når videre til Walgbloggen og/eller dansk politik-bloggen

Blogs on blogging

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I’ve taken the liberty to sport the list here, but if you want the explanation and insights, go read:
Top 25 Blogs About Blogging

Go have fun:

#1 Problogger 6 10 10 10 36
#2 Copyblogger 6 9 10 10 35
#3 John Chow 6 10 6 10 32
#4 Quick Online Tips 6 8 10 6 30
#5 Lorelle on WordPress 6 8 6 9 29
#6 Daily Blog Tips 5 8 6 8 27
#7 Performancing 7 8 1 10 26
#8 Weblog Tools Collection 6 9 5 6 26
#9 Blog Herald 6 7 4 9 26
#10 Blogging Pro 6 7 4 8 25
#11 Successful-Blog 6 6 4 8 24
#12 JohnTP 6 8 3 7 24
#13 Dosh Dosh 4 8 3 8 23
#14 Engtech 6 6 2 7 21
#15 Bloggers Blog 6 3 6 5 20
#16 Andy Beard 5 7 2 6 20
#17 ChrisG 5 6 4 4 19
#18 Converstations 5 3 5 6 19
#19 The Wrong Advices 5 4 1 5 15
#20 Business Blog Wire 6 2 2 4 14
#21 Alister Cameron 5 4 1 4 14
#22 Blogtrepreneur 5 3 1 4 13
#23 I Help You Blog 4 3 2 2 12
#24 Build A Better Blog 6 1 3 1 11
#25 Blog Talks 4 2 1 3 10

detached comments

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The concept is to make it possible to comment directly on visited pages, but since it is not possible to add notes, comments, and whatnot to the webpage itself, the comments must be stored in an other place. The comments could then be showed on the pages as an added layer – maybe generated by a plugin/extension to your favourite browser.
Detached comments would function on as well individual as colloborative levels. All it takes is to apply access rights when adding comments. There are then several ways to access comments:
- per chance; stumble upon notes made by your ‘group’ on Detached Comments
- per rss; subscribe to content and location of comments made by your peers – what would actually resemble a dispersed blog

The furthest extension of the idea is to combine geo-information to comments, making it possible to somehow attach virtual comments to real objects… (Warning: this is idea needs further elaboration…)