by Rob Cottingham | Oct 7, 2010 | Blogging, Social Signal
If you’re a WordPress.com user, you’ve come across Gravatars before. They’re the avatar, or user image, associated with your account, and they show up next to your comments – not just on your own blog, but on any WordPress.com blog… and on any other …
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 4, 2010 | Online Community, Social Signal
We’re coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Social Signal blog. So it’s fitting that this Bedtime with Rob and Alex podcast looks at the heart of what we do: developing strategies for participation.
And this time out, we’re looking at strategies fo…
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 9, 2010 | How to..., Social Signal
Nothing concentrates the mind, the saying goes, like the prospect of being executed in the morning. When you only have a few hours left, you want to make them count.
But substitute space for time, and give people a 160-character limit on summing up the…
by Rob Cottingham | Aug 27, 2010 | Blogging, Social Signal
Stories abound of rock bands who produce hours and hours of music that deepens the soul, challenges the psyche and redefines human existence in a new, profoundly meaningful way.
And then they write one frigging novelty song, and that’s the one that …
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 19, 2010 | Blogging, Social Signal
Originally posted on BlogWorld Expo.
Flaky wireless connections are a fact of life for bloggers on the move. If it isn’t tortoise-slow downloads, it’s a password that never seems to “take”. If it isn’t a connection that keeps dropping, it’s…
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 16, 2010 | Blogging, Social Signal
It’s official – I’m the cartoon blogger for BlogWorld Expo, coming this October in Las Vegas. And as part of my duties, I’m running a weekly cartoon on their blog. This post originally accompanied one of them.
It can be hard to admit, but blogs have a …