Use of Closed Circuit Television Systems . at Home and at Work

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 75% of all crime in the states is property crime. In 2003, there were 14 million thefts of property, and of these, 83% were home and bu... [Author: DL Consultants, LLC - Site Promotion - September 22, 2006]

Getting Your Web Site Listed In The Search Engines
Getting your web site listed in the search engines particularly in a top 10 spot is tricky business. Every day we get questions from readers who are totally confused about how they can get their ... [Author: Larry Potter - Site Promotion - September 23, 2006]

The coming of age of citizen media
The Guardian Unlimited has a wonderful article in its News blog on The coming of age of citizen media. It's about the online response of ordinary people to the tsunami that hit a year ago today, and how bloggers spontaneously created a worldwide network that saved some lives and changed many others. I wrote about the phenomenon at the time in these posts....

European bloggers influencing business and media
Via the Guardian Unlimited: Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers. Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a report by a technology research company. Its study suggests that although "active" web users make up only a small proportion of Europe's online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends. More than half of the internet users on the continent...

Taking a Holiday
I'm away on Wednesday, June 21 for a week in the Canadian Rockies. I won't have much access to a computer, so if you send me email I won't be able to answer (or post here) until the very end of June or the beginning of July. Hope your week will be as happy and surprising as mine will be. My wife and I find Jasper National Park an amazing...

Teen Webwriters: More Numerous Than You Think
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report on Teen Content Creators and Consumers. More than half of American teenagers have created Web content, the report says, and older teenage girls are serious bloggers. I can scarcely imagine the college students of the class of 2010. But I hope I get to teach some of them....

Simple Tips To Generate Waves Of Traffic To Your Website
So you ve got a website setup but you ve got no one visiting it; that s the dilemma and reality of many people who come online and think hey I can setup and website and make loads of money online . ... [Author: Ian Canaway - Site Promotion - September 22, 2006]

Don't Bomb Us - Al Jazeera Blogs
A very interesting development: After release of the news that George Bush was thinking of bombing Al Jazeera's headqurters in Qatar, staff have responded by creating Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers. I doubt that blogs can actually confuse cruise missiles, but at least it will draw more attention to the difficulties of life in the Middle East media....

Websites that changed the world
The Guardian Unlimited has celebrated the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web with an article that also lists 15 Websites that changed the world. You'll probably disagree with many of the sites on the list, but the Web has indeed changed the world....

Housecleaning
Going through some of the links here has been a chastening experience. Having paid little attention to my original blog for a year or more, many of the links are now cobweb sites, or they've moved. I'm going to clean out the dead sites and find more good sites dealing with effective writing on the Web. If you're running a site that ought to be here, or you know of...

Study Shows Blogs Increase Media Attention for Companies


Authors Rule The Content World Online!
Is this content wave ever going to end? I mean after we saturate the article marketing world, blogging world, RSS word, seo world, & eBook writing world, will there still be opportunity online for au... [Author: Martin Lemieux - Site Promotion - September 22, 2006]

A SEO Company is a Catalyst to Top Search Engine Rankings
The problem with knowledge is that it comes in installments. First, people learnt the enormous benefits that a website could create for them. The trend for getting a website created for their busines... [Author: Andy Lewis - Site Promotion - September 20, 2006]

Blogging Directory
Have you looked at your website traffic lately? How much visitors actually visit your site everyday. One of the best ways to attract the visitor to your site is by writing informative blogs. A bloggi... [Author: Darren Dunner - Site Promotion - September 20, 2006]

Traffic Exchanges Revisited - Part One
Traffic exchanges, for the uninitiated, are programs where you can submit your website(s) to be placed in a rotation for other members to see. That's the simple, watered-down explanation. But there... [Author: Lourdes Sanchez - Site Promotion - September 21, 2006]

Seven Ways To Promote Your New Website
Once you have built your new website, you don t have time to sit back and admire your creation, the work is just beginning. Thousands of web pages are being added to the Internet every day and if you... [Author: Fei Lim - Site Promotion - September 23, 2006]

The 2006 Webby Awards
It's a huge list, and no doubt you'd argue with many of the choices. Still, this year's Webby Awards are worth exploring especially on topics like "Best Copy/Writing" and "Corporate Communications."...

A new edition of Writing for the Web
Yesterday I met with my editor at Self-Counsel Books and agreed to do new editions of my books Writing for the Web and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Web book is going to need the most revision in the six years since the last edition, webwriting has changed beyond recognition. So here's a question for you: What kinds of questions would you like the webwriting book to address especially issues that...

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Via a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists, a very welcome gift from Reporters Without Borders: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. It's a PDF with excellent information on everything from starting a blog to evading censorship....

Taking a Breather
I haven't posted much here in the last couple of months...in large part because I've been too busy working on the third edition of Writing for the Web. It's been an instructive experience: I hadn't realized how much has changed on the Web since the second edition came out in 2000. Perhaps the most challenging new development is the emergence of the multiple site: people aren't just creating one website...

Becoming a Book Blog
After weeks of work, the third edition of Writing for the Web is nearly completed. It's a far more extensive revision than I'd expected, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Not only is much of the print content changed, expanded, and updated, but the book will contain a CD with scores of links a kind of electronic index, with added links on relevant topics. In addition, this site will become...