The power of blogs - and a half-price book offer!
Fri, Jul 8 2005
Next week I'll return to my regular news emails with a discussion of how to use your accounting software to keep your website up to date (seriously!) but the last week or so has been rather frantic for me with a series of interviews and rather interesting press coverage that came out of comments I made about Linux Australia on my blog.
My last IVT News email was about RSS and how it can be used to "syndicate" a news feed or blog and let people subscribe to it. That's exactly what happened with my blog, and it just goes to show how powerful they can be: one little post that hits the right topic at the right time and all of a sudden you can be a media superstar (or supervillain). At least for a while!
If you're really interested you can see the blog post that started the storm but it probably won't make a lot of sense when read out of context. In any case it was never my intention to cause so much controversy, I was just seeking feedback from the Linux community, but it's still a great lesson in the publicity that a blog can generate.
Anyway, since it's my birthday this month I've decided to do something a bit different and celebrate by doing a half-price offer on my book How To Build A Website And Stay Sane. Instead of the regular retail price of $69.95 you can now buy it online for $34.95 at the book website.