An elementary school teacher who forgot her lunch one day was forced to eat what the kids eat in the cafeteria. Yuck!
What ensued was a day by day blogging crusade of every food served in the cafeteria in 2010 to raise awareness for inadequate nutrition in school lunches. In a matter of months “Mrs. Q” (the alias for the undercover eater) managed to attract an audience of over 3,000 followers to her “Fed Up With Lunch” Google Blogger blog and got her story heard on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Now that says something about the power of wee little blogs to raise awareness for social issues.
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Ah, Google PageRank. The crown of every newbie blogger. Yup that’s right, I said it: Google PageRank doesn’t mean squat. Unless of course you are a newbie blogger. PageRank is a value from 1 to 10 that Google assigns to websites in its index. The higher the PR value, the more authority and credibility a site [...]
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This morning I went to a visual communication arts class and everyone formed a circle to discuss the evolution of newspaper layouts. I learned that the most striking difference between modern newspapers and those of the past are the ratio of pictures to text. The first newspapers in America of course did not have images [...]
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When I first stumble upon a blog, I usually read the first lines of the newest post. If the lines intrigue me or make me want to read more, I will read the rest of the post. From that point on, I can pretty much tell if the content on the blog is relevant or [...]
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Up until a few days ago I had no contact page on this WordPress blog. It didn’t hit me at first but not having a contact page can seriously damage the development of a blog. Not only can individuals submit feedback and ask questions through a contact form but they can also offer to: Purchase ad space [...]
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Nofollow is an HTML attribute value which tells search engines to not follow a link. Search engines like Google use internal and external links to determine page ranks (or which pages are important and which are unimportant). Webmaster’s use the “nofollow” attribute to tell search engines that a link is not important. By telling search [...]
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A guest post by David Smith. Writer’s block is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Even the most creative and prolific blog writers have days where the ideas just won’t flow. Productivity grinds to a standstill, and the mere thought of coming up with even a cursory post seems impossible. If you ever experience writer’s block, [...]
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Building links to your blog for search engine rankings is little different from building relationships with people in the real world — networking — for desired jobs and positions. Employers judge prospective employees based on references from other individuals. If the prospective employee is in good favor with people in high positions, specifically positions in [...]
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My last post on this blog was a bit out of the ordinary. I’m sure if I had a large subscriber base, I would be getting tons of emails asking what the deal was. I wrote an entire post on one very simple thing: how to check which version of WordPress you are using. That little [...]
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Looking to check which version of WordPress your blog is using? The answer is right in front of your face. Seriously, its staring right at you. Do you want to know where it is? Then I’ll tell you. But first I would like to make a point: are you really going to turn to Google [...]
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Nearly a week ago, I redirected all of the feeds on this blog to a FeedBurner feed (which allows me to track and manage my feed) and placed the code (provided by FeedBurner) that displays the feed count into a custom HTML widget in my sidebar. I was ecstatic to see my feed count rise [...]
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I was doing some research for a school assignment today and came across a few news articles that were using some very interesting URLs. A Fox News Report titled “Global Warming in Last 15 Years Insignificant, U.K.’s Top Climate Scientist Admits,” ended with: global-warming-insignificant-years-admits-uks-climate-scientist Why was it that several of the words in the title were left out of [...]
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