Jil Walker has returned from a lengthy trip around the states and opens blogging activities with some interresting thoughts on blogging as a means of networking. According to Jill, quite a few of her professional opportunities can be traced back to her blogging activities – there’s even a reference to blogging being a good training ground for academic activities (read returning to blogging). There’s also a post on whether or not to merge your public, professional and personal blogging.

Well, I cannot say that I am not tempted to experiment with Google Adsense – especially reading two articles labeled blogging for bucks on respectively Wired News and Poynter E-Media.
Although this blog has not undergone any form of search engine optimization (apart from being a wordpress blog, with often updated content), my log files shows a decent flow of visitors from search engines all over the world. I don’t want an ad-blog, but I am not wealthy enough (yet) to ignore a possibility to make a little money on something I like doing.

Jeg har længe gået og kigget på hvordan man mon kunne få disse ‘tooltips’ til almindlig tekst. Det ser ud til at det skal gøres med koden < abbr title= "beskrivelse" >og en passende ankertekst.

I modified the comment form a couple of days ago. It seems that there is a convention requiring commenting people to fill in all their details prior to to writing a comment. A comment being a thougt provoked by a post may be a fleeting thing in the head of the commenter. The inspiration that flares up in the spur of the moment may be hampered by a suggestion to do rutine tasks before beginning to write – and thus I applied some writing pedagogy to the comment-flow: write first, think later.
I suppose a filled comment field is also a better incentive to filling in details, than filled in details is to writing that geniuos comment.
Yes, I know that you can simply click in the comment field, start writing, and then fill in the details, but the layout suggest another action.