Cartoon: You Read Blog Posts?

2010.09.24.read

You read blog posts as well as retweeting them? How does that work?

Cartoon: Collateral

2010.09.10.collateral

“12,000 Twitter followers and 25,000 subscribers on Feedburner are certainly impressive. But they aren’t what we in the banking business call ‘collateral.’”

Cartoon: Nostalgia

2010.09.10.nostalgia

“I got a trackback yesterday. I haven’t felt so nostalgic in ages.”

Cartoon: Suing Your Guest Blogger

2010.09.02.alienation

“I’m sorry – there’s nothing in the case law to suggest you can sue a guest blogger for alienation of your audience’s affection.”

Cartoon: Get to the ‘Read More’ Link!

2010.08.20.readmore

Rob Cottingham is a cofounder of social media strategy firm Social Signal, a blogger since 2001, and the pen behind Noise to Signal for the past three years. Find him on Twitter at @robcottingham.

Cartoon: Custody Battle

2010.08.12.custody

Rob Cottingham is a cofounder of social media strategy firm Social Signal, a blogger since 2001, and the pen behind Noise to Signal for the past three years. Find him on Twitter at @robcottingham.

Cartoon: Ad Space

2010.07.21.opening

Rob Cottingham is a cofounder of social media strategy firm Social Signal, a blogger since 2001, and the pen behind Noise to Signal for the past three years. Find him on Twitter at @robcottingham.

Cartoon: Opening Act

2010.07.21.opening

Rob Cottingham is a cofounder of social media strategy firm Social Signal, a blogger since 2001, and the pen behind Noise to Signal for the past three years. Find him on Twitter at @robcottingham.

Cartoon: Plea-e enj-y o-r fr-e w-rel-ss

2010.07.14.intermittent

Flaky wireless connections are a fact of life for bloggers on the move. If it isn’t tortoise-slow downloads, it’s a password that never seems to “take”. If it isn’t a connection that keeps dropping, it’s a router that refuses to give you an IP address. Okay. So the connection’s too unreliable to let you post … [Read more]

Cartoon: Last RSSpects

2010.07.06.die

It can be hard to admit, but blogs have a life cycle – and, in some cases, a best-before date that may be well in the past. Your passion for the subject matter wanes; other interests beckon; your readers and commenters, maybe sensing your faltering commitment, move on to other venues. And that’s okay. There’s … [Read more]