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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780470197394
ISBN: 0470197390
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 298
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Among more than 102,000,000 blogs, a few stand out as influential, ground-breaking, and singularly successful. These thirty bloggers, who write about everything from business trends to parenting, have been featured in Wired magazine, Popular Science, and on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and 20/20. In one-on-one conversations with Michael A. Banks, these innovative, creative thinkers have shared their tactics, their philosophies, what drives them, how they mine for subject matter, and their personal secrets for success. Come and learn from the masters.
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Page 30: "A successful blog is like a hungry pet that needs to be walked, fed, washed, cleaned up after, and loved regularly."
Nothing beats hearing from the top bloggers themselves about what it takes to achieve blogging success. Michael A. Banks has taken this huge effort of interviewing 30 of world's top bloggers. He shortlisted interesting blogs in several categories from business trends and the inner workings at Microsoft to parenting tips, personal secrets, DIYs, technology tips and many more.
A lot of background work went into the project: Finding the 30 people to interview by consulting the Technorati lists, Digg, Alexa and other resources; research on each blogger that often resulted in follow-up questions and revisions, contacting and inviting them to be a subject in the book; and logistic arrangements where mostly those interviews were conducted by telephone due to advantage of audio cues, not to mention other stuff too such as recorder and other telecommunication ... Read More
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This was an intriguing book to pick up at the bookstore and thumb through, although less fulfilling to read. Most of the bloggers are full-time paid, and most of them report on the very latest up-to-the-minute breaking news in their mostly-technical field. Most of them give you pretty much the same advice: Write about what you care about, and don't use black hat SEO techniques.
Frank Warren, of PostSecret, is the only completely out-of-the-box blogger covered.
I'll take comfort from the assurances that if I keep putting good content out into the blogosphere, Google will eventually find me. I'll add a few new writers to my RSS feeds. Elsewise, my blogging life will not change as a result of this book.
Good to have read; find it at the library, or buy it new or used according to your book budget.
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I did not find this book useful. The author has spent time interviewing famous bloggers and compiled it. Most of the information is available online . Its a book which you can read when your are browsing in the store. Not worth to buy it
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Looking for an inside edge on the new full-contact sport that blogging has evolved to? Then, arguably, the group interviewed by Michael Banks is the one to consult for advice. Sprinkled with helpful hints and ideas, it is a book that I would recommend to any blogger, albeit with one reservation: you get diminishing returns with every interview you read. While incredibly consistent in their advice - passion, niche, consistency, networking - it almost feels superficial after reading it for the twentieth time. I hope to see an updated version of this book sometime in the future, and I hope that the author will dig deeper, and try to expose more of the personality trends and quirks of each of the bloggers.
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Internet books are getting a little too cookie cutter. I blame the editors for this one. Wisdom takes more than 2 hours to read and needs more than a interview questionnaire. The author is blind to the 3 principles that he presents through the bloggers: passion - there is no passion in this book. Uniqueness - basically most of the bloggers all give the same recommendations. Content - the repetition here is unforgivable. What makes these bloggers unique is their obsession, but the author needs to dig deeper if he wants to find some real wisdom. Many there isn't any.
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