My previous post, Jackie Chan’s Greatest Fight Scenes, was one of the 893 entries in Darren Rowse’s Top 5 Writing Project. Since I benefited from incoming traffic as a contestant, it seems only fair that I pass on some link love.
Here a few contest entries related to the topic of this website, martial arts for personal development: [Read more →]
I’ve updated my original Ninja Scroll theme for compatibility with the latest and greatest versions of WordPress and Cutline. [Read more →]
There is one week remaining in the Best Martial Arts Writing of 2006 Contest. I am disappointed in the low number of entries so far, considering the dozens of martial arts bloggers I know visit this website.
Please do not be intimidated by the name of the contest. Take it as an opportunity to promote your own martial arts articles, whether or not they are among the greatest works of mankind.
I am lifting the requirement that your entry was written in 2006; you can submit any posts written before the end of the contest on March 17. [Read more →]
Reader Alex Shalman from Practical Personal Development recently asked me to explain why I blog. I answered this question a few months ago in Give Thanks To Your Blogging Inspirations. So, instead of repeating myself here, I’ll revisit one particular benefit of blogging.
I’m talking about cash money. Believe it or not, Uncle Sam paid me to write this blog. And he might be willing to pay you too. [Read more →]
A professional author spends months, or even years crafting a single bestselling novel. A magazine or newspaper journalist needs a few weeks to compose a feature story. The entire history of writing shows that good writing takes time.
Yet, according to Technorati, most popular blogs are updated on a daily basis, often multiple times. What are we to make of this?
Is the accepted wisdom, that successful blogs are built on great content, supported by any factual evidence?
Nick Burns
RSS. Atom syndication. XML feeds.
Try locating a straightforward explanation of these terms, and why they are important to Internet users. I doubt you will succeed. Most of the RSS information available today is cryptic techno-babble, and unless you are Nick Burns, you may have a hard time making any sense of it.
In this article, I will try to explain RSS in plain English, and to answer these most important questions: so what, and who cares? [Read more →]
There are more than 50 million blogs on the Internet now, and thousands more are added every day. If you want to keep readers’ attention in this hypercompetitive environment, you must create posts that both look interesting and read well.
This is an example of a basic pull quote.
Pullquotes are one of the easiest ways to add a little style to your blog post. They break up large blocks of text, reinforce the key points in your post, and make your blog look more professional. As common as they are in offline print media—such as magazines—pullquotes are rarely used on blogs; they are therefore an effective way to help your blog stand out from the crowd. [Read more →]
This is a continuation of Give Thanks to Your Blogging Inspirations.
From the All Marketers Are Liars Blog
Until recently, I had no interest in marketing. Like so many other scientists and engineers, I considered marketing a necessary evil, unworthy of my own efforts.
When I first started the Martial Development blog, I wanted to use a martial-arts-themed design. Since I could not find any in the public WordPress theme library, I applied the Light theme by Stephen Reinhardt instead. Until now. [Read more →]
After a few months of publishing a full RSS feed on this blog, I am contemplating a transition to partial feeds. Here are my reasons: [Read more →]
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