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So you want to start a blog and dont know where to start? Part 2

Yesterday I talked a little about where you can go to set up a free hosted blog, today Im going to talk about another option that you have if you want to set up a blog.
Wordpress
I know what you are thinking, I talked about wordpress yesterday. That was the free hosted version of wordpress at [...]

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So you want to start a blog and dont know where to start?

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me about setting up a blog for him. I figured so many people are blogging these days that everyone would know how to start a blog. Guess what, not everyone know where to start. I haven’t gone over to set up his blog yet but I [...]

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I think Im going to give Twitter another shot…

Ive said plenty of times before, I listen to a LOT of podcast. Lately Ive been hearing a lot of talk about Twitter. There are people out there that really love and are hooked on using Twitter. If you remember, when Twitter was first released, I tried it out for a week or so. Needless [...]

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Beware, some of those forum avatars could be quite embarrasing

The past 2 days I was talking about blogs, bloggers, and blogging. Today I want to talk about another part of the internet that is pretty useful. Message boards, or Forums. Many useful bits of information is found on message boards. As a matter of fact, almost every "social thing" to come about with the [...]

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Is everyone that read your blog a blogger? If so, Whats the point?

Yesterday I talked briefly about the Blogger pyramid. Like I said I think we are in the section D right now (check out yesterday’s post to see what I’m talking about). How do I know that we are in Section D? Take a look at the comments on many tech blogs out there.
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Blogging as a business. Where do we stand? is it still viable?

About 5 years ago I was at the car wash waiting on my car to get washed and a guy that was also waiting on his car casually started a conversation with me. It started off as just small talk, 2 guys waiting on their cars passing time. Eventually I noticed that this conversation was [...]

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The state of the internet as I see it

This week I’m going to be talking about my views on some things that is going on on the web today, the way I see it. I’ve been thinking about a lot of things the last week or so, wondering if I should continue blogging, for how much longer, or if there was something [...]

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Back on the stat topic again, this time Adsense.

If you don’t know, I have 2 blogs. This blog (jonespc.com), pretty much a PC tech oriented blog with tips and talk about PC’s, the internet, software, games etc. Then theres Jonzee.com which is a gadget, shopping and product information blog. The traffic I get on both blogs are pretty similar, but Jonzee.com gets a [...]

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How to articles or tutorials for your blog, or submit your own

If you have a blog or content driven website, you don’t always have to write everything yourself. I’ve never thought about using content that I haven’t written but after being contracted to write this review, I’ve really taken a second look at doing so. At howto.fm,  you can find such content. You can even subscribe [...]

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Was PC gaming ever alive? (Cont…)

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Ive been having a lot of fun with the post I wrote a couple weeks ago, "is PC gaming dead?". I noticed I had a lot to say in my comments in response to a few comments that were made but Jeff from Jeffflowers.com made a short simple comment that made me [...]

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