Last week I built a site… Got-Marrow.org, for the purpose of fund-raising. My first website was built using Microsoft Word, and son-after enhanced by using MS Frontpage. You can laugh all ya want guys, but we didnt have Wordpress, Dreamweaver, CSS, Joomla… and I wasn’t a code-kid who could write HTML code on sheet of text. This time I had Wordpress to work with (thank heaven).

TO BECOME A BOTW VOLUNTEER BLOG EDITOR
Go to the BOTW Blog Directory, click on a category of interest, then hit the “Become a BOTW editor” button, the app is simple. It goes to several staffers, but I’m the one that generally handles the queue, so I’d say you have a fair chance of approval provided the app is filled out correctly. The app process is pretty simple, takes a few minutes.

Sometimes one might get the impression that our industry is a zero sum game. Everyone’s seen a poster passionately detail the evils of some directory… only to find the speaker is affiliated with another directory, and speaks ill of ALL other directories. We can’t agree on everything… but is it necessary to denigrate other directories? Didn’t dad always say if you sling mud, you’re gonna get some on you? We tar each other, we diminish the whole group.

In a departure from our stance on the Web Directory, we have opened up the Blog Directory to volunteer editors. We unofficially launched the volunteer program about 10 days ago, and have since received more than a few applications. Now that some of the bugs have been worked out, we felt we would officially announce [...]

One of the primary criterions for blog approval at Best of the Web is that the blog must have a history of six months or longer. About 50 to 60 percent of the blogs submitted are rejected because they do not meet this standard. At Caslyn Analytics Profile, statistics and studies are presented which seem [...]

Sometimes one tequila sunrise is all it takes to put a person in the creative mood to drop the neverending to-do list and want to make a blog entry. Although I haven’t had much to write about lately, there is plenty going on at Best of the Web. The challenge, of course, is talking about [...]

While everyone else is boozing it up..err.. I mean getting ready to network and do some business at the SES conference, it is with great pride that I steal a bit of their thunder and give you a brief intro to some new features on the BOTW Blog Directory. And why shouldn’t I steal some [...]

The Director of Technology at Best of the Web is a daunting post to hold. Yes, you do get to play around with “the latest and greatest”, but that “latest and greatest” just happens to be something that thousands, hundreds of thousands — Nay, millions — of folks like yourself happen to be checking out, [...]

As I sit and watch the Jets/Patriots game (yawn), I will spend the next couple of hours pouring through the Blog Directory submission queue. As there has been a growing buzz regarding the new offering, and given that submissions are currently free of charge, there have been a steady flow of blogs being submitted all [...]

There is a definite buzz in the air about the BOTW Blog Directory. From our initial launch at PubCon 10 where it received rave reviews, there have been numerous nods, posts, and articles with primarily positive feedback. We have gotten a few suggestions as well – some of the issues raised to date: The six [...]