If you’re on the lookout for a new blogging service to use, the people seem to have spoken. WordPress.com is far and away the most popular one, with the number of blogs using it expected to pass 10 million this year. A recent Royal Pingdom blog post stated, “[T]he WordPress.com blogging service is growing with [...]

If all else fails, you can be a ghost tweeter. Assuming it’s about time management and not literacy, or lack thereof, celebrities, politicians, and other high profile personalities are hiring writers to tweet for them on Twitter. Hey, work is work. And it prevents Britney Spears from tweeting about how cute it is her kids [...]

Writing contests can be a great way for an undiscovered author to get noticed, and potentially even start their career. For example, someone I know recently won third prize in a contest from WritingRoom.com for submitting a novel. For her prize, she had her book published, and they are helping her market it, and got [...]

Past perfect tense and passive voice have their places within the structures of the English language. Generally, those places are under the stairs or in the attic, in boxes, on shelves, way behind the adverbs. Key point: The more verbs used, the higher the chance for confusion, the higher the chance your prose is too [...]

“Self-googling” is a term which means querying one’s self in the Google search engine. It has become quite a trend recently, especially since the use of the internet has become widespread over the recent years. It might sound narcissistic at first, but for web professionals, self-googling should be second nature. Think of it as part [...]