Today we launched a new project: Art of Blog. This new site will feature one blogger per day with a verse of wisdom from their blogging experience, written in a style reminiscent of the teachings found in Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Throughout the years the Art of War has been successfully applied to business, management, and other competitive disciplines. With an ever-growing army of new bloggers joining the ranks, it is becoming more and more important to refine your blogging skills and differentiate yourself from the masses.

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Early last week my girlfriend’s laptop was stolen from her car right in front of my house. (Friendly reminder: always lock everything, never leave stuff in plain sight, and always password protect EVERYTHING).

A Mac was not an option - those laptops are expensive! For all the hype they get, they’re a tough pill to swallow at such a premium (compared to a Windows box) and not all of us have the bankroll to swing $600 differences. So last Friday she bought a new HP laptop with Vista preinstalled, which led to my first real experience with this little beast called Windows Vista.

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A few times I’ve heard people ask advice about picking the right domain name. It typically goes something like “well the .com is taken, but I can get the .net for $10″ or something similar.

My advice? NEVER go with anything other than a “.com” for anything that you care about. If you’re building scraper sites, go wild with .us or .info’s all you want, but if the project in question is anything you want to last or build a brand around, ALWAYS go with a dot com, even if you settle for something not quite as stellar.

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Do yourself a favor. Make this the last post you read today. I came to a very important realization recently that I’d like to share; maybe it will hit close to home.

How much time do you spend reading blogs? Of that time, how much is spent learning truly useful or actionable information? Furthermore, how much time do you spend APPLYING what you’ve read? All the intentions in the world won’t matter as much as one tangible action.

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Branding tip of the day: When naming your new company/website/concept - do not use generic or common words.

Can you spot the difference between these?

• Commentful
• Co.mments
• coComment

They are 3 separate services doing a very similar thing - tracking comments you make on other websites - but I’d fail a multiple choice test if you asked me which is which. (looking them up as we speak)

Commentful installs a blinking light in your browser, coComment attaches itself to forms you fill out online, and co.mments works via a bookmarklet that allows you to select what posts to track.

» Continue reading “Comments, Commenting, and Comment Tracking”