In recent years, millions of people have taken the plunge and joined the blogosphere, but there are also many who are still skeptical of its benefits. Some are stuck on the idea that blogs are little more than personal diaries broadcast over the web, and do not recognize other contexts for which they might be […]
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What is a WordPress Theme Framework?
When you’re setting up a site with WordPress, it’s common to think of two choices for the design: free and paid themes. With free themes, you simply install and start blogging without spending a dime. Paid themes, however, provide more useful features, better written code and offer more options for customization. But in recent years, […]
4 Alternatives to WordPress for Blog and Website Creation
For many, WordPress has become practically synonymous with blogging and for good reason: it’s open source, easy-to-use and extremely flexible. But it’s certainly not the only option. This article will outline a few other platforms you might want consider for your blogging or website needs. Blogger You’ve likely seen Blogger blogs already (they end in […]
How Do You Evaluate the Blogs and Websites You Visit?
If you’ve been in school in the last decade or so, you were probably given a handout at some point explaining how to evaluate internet sources. These documents usually give a list of criteria to inspect on a website so you can determine whether it is authoritative and reliable. I remember being told to investigate […]
Getting Blog Visitors From Google Maps and the Growing Impact of Local Search
Update: Late in June 2011, Google pulled third-party reviews from its Places pages in order to emphasize reviews from Google users. They did keep a small link to other sites around the web with reviews, however, so traffic generation is still possible. As I was checking the analytics for my sites the other day, I […]
Why Blogs are Peer Reviewed Sources
In academia, peer review is the process that is supposed to separate the trustworthy from the unreliable, the conclusive from the flawed, the groundbreaking from the mundane. Before a work can be published, a rigorous review by a carefully selected group of scholars in the same field is necessary in order to ensure a high […]