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A Timely Reminder

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When was the last time that you . . .

What other reminders might we need now that spring is here?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Welcome to ePublishingDaily.com

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ePublishing Welcome 90

You’ll notice right away when you visit Martin Neumann’s ePublishingDaily that this is not like other blogs that you’ve been to before. First of all, he’s got a Welcome Mat at the door–a Welcome Mat that says ePublishingDaily is there to help entrepreneurs create quality eBooks–and that’s not a Welcome Mat that’s meant to be walked on, or taken lightly. This is an enterprise and an endeavor that’s going places.

Martin’s serious about those words and these:

The idea behind ePublishingDaily.com is that I believe there has never been a stronger demand for quality information. It’s been proven that people are willing to pay top-dollar for e-Products (especially eBooks) that give them what they want: clear, concise and affordable information on niche topics.

My ideal reader (but I’m happy with any and all readers) is the serious entrepreneurial blogger looking to make their blogging profitable by developing e-Products for sale.

To you, welcome to ePublishingDaily.com - a news and information blog that will keep you up-to-date on the information products industry. A mix between news and commentary, I’ll be endeavouring to provide you the best resources available on the Internet …

The Internet needs quality eBooks from a real journalist.
Good Luck, Martin! You’re just the guy to do it.

If you want to know what’s going on in the world of ePublishing, this is the newsite to bookmark, the industry watcher to keep an eye on.

Click the logo to pay him a visit.

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When will your next eBook be coming out?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Newsweek Tells What’s Bloggy Hot–NOT!

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Newsweek logo

Today in Blog Watch at Newsweek

Do you know Blog Watch? The tagline is A mainstream-media snapshot of what’s hot (and what’s not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs.

Here’s January 30, 2006 selection.

Hot?
Making fun of celebrity fashion–gofugyourself.typepad.com
A war of words over the New York Knicks–deadspin.com
A Mel Gibson parody that Mel is threatening legal action–melgibsonsblog.blogspot.com

What’s Not Hot?
Blog Watch didn’t mention. Darn. It’s probably what I’m reading.

How many blogs are they watching ? . . . Makes me wonder about their criteria. Think a hat was involved?

I have an idea! Why not have a blogger write Blog Watch? What a concept!

Okay, so it was just an idea. . . . What would I know?
I’m just a blogger, not even a hot one at that.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: Tlog Blogging Tips Series

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Great Find: The Tlog Blogging Tips Series
Type of Article: A Growing Series of Articles on Setting Up and Running a Blog
Permalink: The Blogging Tips Series
Target Audience: Any blogger who wants to think about blogging or rethink the direction his or her blog is going.

Content: Pedro Timoteo, the Tlog owner and developer of this series is a network administrator. I’ve read through these posts and they put out in sequence the step-by-step basics of blogging. It’s well worth looking over for a thorough blog review. The organization has a programmer’s knack of parsing out knowledge in manageable chunks. They are delivered in language that is clear, accurate, and respectful of the reader. This belongs in everyone’s survival kit.

Look at this list.

Tlog Blogging Tips Series

What’s not to love about this? The thought that went into this series shows in the list alone.
AND there’s a whole blog beyond this.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Blogs about Blogging

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blogging_wurk_net Blogs about Blogging

Great Find: Blogs about blogs, blogger, and blogging by Barry Bell
Permalink: Blogging/wurk.net/
Target Audience: Anyone interested in Blogs about blogging

Content: Somtimes you can read someone’s writing and know you’d have a fun time at dinner with him. That’s how I feel about Barry Bell. In this, what amounts to his Top Nine blogs about bloggers and blogging he gives a tongue-in-cheek review of who should be reading each blog and why they should read it.

Included are Problogger, Jack of All Blogs. Blogebrity, Workboxers, Performancing, Successful Blog, Blogherald, Blog Network Watch, and Pajamas Media. In it he says things that I realize I’ve known unconsciously, but never actually put the words into a thought of my own. One or two of the descriptions were so perfect, they made me laugh out loud with their honesty.

For new bloggers, especially those who’ve not taken a course in marketing this review shows fine examples of product differentiation. All of these blogs basically “sell” the same thing. However, each has chosen to serve a differerent market niche and has developed their blog to that audience with that purpose in mind. The product differentiation is so clear that Barry Bell as a reader can state in a few words who each blog is meant for and what purpose it serves.

Barry has nailed it, and done so in a post that is an easy, fun read. Seven of the eight of the judges give Barry a ten and pass this one into the gold medal final round. The judge from New Zealand, who’s still sleeping–he phoned in a 9.9. The NZ judge does that sometimes.)

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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