Writing

How to Measure a Blog’s Success

by Jason Boom on June 9, 2008

I’ve been wondering this recently. What makes a blog successful? Do you count the number of subscribers and measure that against other blog giants in the industry? Do you count the amount of money your blog makes? To answer this question, we first need to determine your blog’s purpose. Why do you blog? Take a minute to [...]

Ten Reasons to Write Well, Not Good

by Jason Boom on March 7, 2008

Are you ready to create unique articles, blog posts, or stories? Learn a valuable skill. In a world where Microsoft Word automatically capitalizes our lowercase i and changes glaring typos with a right click, quality writing skills have become a rarity. Use your newfound writing skills to market yourself to employers, show off exemplary articles [...]

There Once Was a Man From Nantucket

by Jason Boom on January 22, 2008

I don’t even need to finish that sentence. Many of you completed the phrase in your mind, maybe without even thinking about it. With language, we become hypnotized by phrases. We can finish the sentence just like we’re having a conversation with a lover in the park. “Good things come to those…” See what I [...]

Look Up from the Keyboard

by Jason Boom on January 19, 2008

There’s someone watching. We all have traffic measurement software. We can see the peaks and valleys and equate those to numbers, but behind those soft falling crests and mesmerizing integers come human beings. (Unless of course your traffic analysis software mistakenly counts bots, but I digress.) Those humans are trained readers, and everyone of them carries their own grenades to the blog post you’re [...]