Google Knol as an Instant Author Platform
Late yesterday, Google made an announcement about an upcoming product called knol, a free platform for creating authoritative articles on any subject. Knol will have a variety of social features and will let readers comment, rank, review and suggest edits.
Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a [...]
Banned From Google - How I Finally Got Listed
I have had several frustrating months in getting my website listed in the Google index. For the first 9 months, this blog was not listed anywhere on Google. I had several quality links in, was writing good content, following all the guidelines - but still no Google listing. I was providing a [...]
Reader Poll - A Little Help Here?
ckwebb.com recently underwent a redesign, and I’m still tweaking it a bit. Although most of you read ckwebb.com via the RSS feed, many do click through. So some of questions for you, dear readers:
On the main page I currently have excerpts from the 10 most recent posts. Do you prefer the full text on the [...]
Struggles with Google Books
Wiley author Charles Petzold points out some frustrating limitations with Google Books in a recent post on his blog.
This is not a blog entry by an author who thinks that Google Books is evil because it promotes the idea of free books.
This is a blog entry by an author who sees Google Books as [...]
90 Days with Google Reader - Back to NewsGator and FeedDemon
Back in April I declared myself a Google Reader user, and ditched my trusty FeedDemon RSS reader and the accompanying NewsGator Online service. Google Reader was getting all the press, seemed to be on a roll, and had some features I liked. But after dealing with some frustration in Google Reader today when I went [...]
