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    Observations after 5 days of Dana

    Friday, September 21st, 2007

    You can never have too many saved drafts in your Dashboard.
    While most lists will warn against blogging while delirious from exhaustion, after a drink or two or when generally in a bad mood, I’ve found those posts to be my most popular…and I’m not alone in thinking this check out MattJMCD’s new post Hitting […]

    Are you praying to the Stumble Gods?

    Friday, September 21st, 2007

    If you hadn’t noticed, I have become completely obsessed with StumbleUpon in the last 2 months. I think it was about 5 weeks ago when I officially drank the Stumble Kool-Aid. My life since then has been a wonderful blur of thumbs, reviews and fan counts. It has felt a bit like […]

    Mr. Belvedere’s 7 Keys to Successful Blogging

    Thursday, September 20th, 2007

    Ok, we don’t have to limit it to Mr. Belvedere. Really any old school sitcom will work. So depending on your generation or preferences, feel free to substitute The Honeymooners, The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, Three’s Company, the Cosby Show, Golden Girls, Full House, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and so […]

    The Secret Power of Blog Comments

    Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

    I’ve been thinking about comments a lot lately. I read a lot from bloggers about comments. Many of those posts cover:

    Why you should comment
    Why you should respond to comments
    Why you should or shouldn’t allow comments with or without subscribing
    Whether you should or shouldn’t have the no-follow on comments

    In the past week or so, […]

    Top 5 StumbleUpon Buzzkills

    Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

    You know what I’m talking about! You’re stumbling along. You’re getting on a roll and then boom…

    404s, page you were looking for was not found and/or various Wordpress database errors
    Somebody stumbled a PDF…I understand the wonderfulness of PDF’s, really I do, but when I’m on a Stumbling frenzy and all of a […]

    9 Free Wordpress Themes That Make Me Go Hmm…

    Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

    maybe it’s time to start a few more blogs!
    Yes, that’s right. This blog is just over 24 hours old, and I’m already tempting to start a few more based on some of the themes I ran across over the weekend while putting together this blog! I chose RockinPaper by Cory Miller for […]

    Is the Real World Catching Up with the Blogosphere or Vice Versa?

    Monday, September 17th, 2007

    As I’m sitting here stumbling this afternoon, I as usual have CNN on the TV. I just saw something on “The Situation Room” that’s got me thinking.
    Wolf Blitzer just played a clip of Ellen DeGeneres on the red carpet at the Emmy’s last night. She had apparently recently been trying to get Wolf […]

    What a 6-Legged Cow Taught Me About Blogging

    Monday, September 17th, 2007

    Look closely, that cow really does have 6 legs!
    A few years ago, some friends and I were through Western Kansas on the way to Colorado Springs for a summer vacation. Now let me tell you, driving on I-70 for 8 hours through the nothingness of the Kansas plains is not too exciting. Let […]

    My Blog About Blogging

    Monday, September 17th, 2007

    Hi All! My name is Dana Wallert, and I’m a blogaholic. I know, who isn’t these days?!

    (I’m still working on getting a professional photo to display on my sites, but I decided this was a good time for one of my favorite pictures ever…former Mayor of NYC LaGuardia and myself!)
    I am a […]

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