When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. —Cynthia Heimel
Blogging around here has been a little hit and miss lately, huh? There’s a number of reasons for that. I’m not making excuses, but I thought I might tell you like it is.
First of all, I’m incredibly boring.
Continue Reading Add comment June 12th, 2008
Chris and I are having a little debate about naming blogs. As I announced a few weeks ago, I dropped the A Fool of Myself moniker for SarahJoAustin.com because I think using my name is more professional. I use part of this blog for my resume and portfolio, and if necessary, I might like to point potential clients to the work that I post here.
Chris thinks that using SarahJoAustin.com as the name of my blog is boring. He thinks A Fool of Myself is more quirky–more like me. I’ll be changing up the color scheme and images in the next week or so, and as Chris works on my monogram, which will be implemented on this blog, I’m wondering if I made a mistake and if I should change the blog name back to A Fool of Myself (the URL would still remain SarahJoAustin.com).
So my question is which do you prefer? On your blog or blogs that you read, do you prefer the Name.com format for the blog’s name or do you prefer a more original name for a blog? Let me know by leaving a comment!
8 comments May 7th, 2008
A few months ago, I made the switch from Blogger to Wordpress, and today I’m taking my blog one step further: I’m finally hosting it on my own, which means I can use Google Analytics again, host my blog at SarahJoAustin.com, and edit my cascading style sheets. I’m uber excited!
Continue Reading 2 comments April 25th, 2008
“Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner, Part V: Networkizing & Monetizing” has moved to BloggersGuide.net. Thanks!
1 comment March 15th, 2008
“Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner, Part IV: Publicizing” has moved to BloggersGuide.net. Thanks!
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“Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner, Part III: Optimizing” has moved to BloggersGuide.net. Thanks!
1 comment March 13th, 2008
“Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner, Part II: Troubleshootizing & Analyzing” has moved to BloggersGuide.net. Thanks!
2 comments March 12th, 2008
“Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner, Part I: Getting Started” has moved to BloggersGuide.net! Thanks!
Add comment March 11th, 2008
OK, I finally made the switch from Blogger to WordPress today. I’m in the process of switching my name spaces, so for now you’ll have to go to sarahjoaustin.wordpress.com to view it. I haven’t customized the template or made any pages yet, so be patient with me in that department. There’s a lot of little things to do (i.e. making sure that after I updated the original feed, my Feedburner feed still works—one more function of this post).
1 comment February 28th, 2008
As runners, we have this weird obsession with tracking our training stats, and for me, this obsession also translates to my blog’s stats. I started tracking these stats in August with Google Analytics, and while some of these numbers are depressing (i.e. 76% of visits last 10 seconds or less and 76% of visitors only view one page), I find most of them pretty interesting. Here are some of my stats from the previous five months:
Top 10 Keywords No surprises here. I haven’t always written about running, and my first post about Kai is a heavy hitter.
Top 10 Referring Sites Gotta love my fellow bloggers who send me traffic. Thanks, guys!
Top 10 Posts Oddly enough, some of my most random posts are the most read. Seriously, who cares that I don’t like monkeys?
Top 10 Countries Nope. No clue who is reading me in Argentina.
Top 10 States Hmm…Pennsylvania? You out there?
I certainly found these lists interesting, but you all are probably bored out of your minds. Maybe bottom-ten lists would be more interesting. I’ll get to work on that.
And one last thing—I sold out. I approved an ad through Feedburner today, so I guess I’m starting to put ads in this blog’s feed (but not the site, yet). I still have mixed feelings about this, but I’m going to give it a try. I wouldn’t have the opportunity if I wasn’t part of the CRN family, so I might as well take it. Maybe I’ll learn something from the whole experience…thoughts, anyone?
Add comment February 19th, 2008
