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	<title>Smooth Harold, The Blog of Blake Snow &#187; blogging</title>
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		<title>Embedded video is the new live blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid 2000s, live blogging was all the rage. Since streaming video was still in its infancy, a live blog was the only way you could get real-time updates of an event from a remote location. It was a great recourse, as onlookers could react, comment, and update each other in real-time. 
Today, live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;When I was your age, people used to comment on blogs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[desperate cry to be heard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[looking for any ear that will listen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago this week, I launched Smooth Harold. Coolest blog evar! Since its launch, if one thing has changed the site more than anything else, it&#8217;s been Facebook.
A quick glance at my front page reveals that not many people comment like they used to, even though traffic levels have remained the same. Since my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I blog under the Smooth Harold pseudonym</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/why-i-blog-under-the-smooth-harold-pseudonym/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/why-i-blog-under-the-smooth-harold-pseudonym/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[what's in a name]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly get 2-3 comments per month from first-time visitors calling me &#8220;Harold,&#8221; my blogging pseudonym. I expected this when launching the site in 2005. Before I explain why, let me remind you how I came up with the name:
I was good friends with a guy named Michael Komenda years ago while living in Brazil. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger encourages others to stop blogging, fails to see the irony</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/blogger-encourages-others-to-stop-blogging-fails-to-see-the-irony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/blogger-encourages-others-to-stop-blogging-fails-to-see-the-irony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid human tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
If millions of lifeless blogs and apologetic &#8220;sorry for not updating&#8221; posts were any indication, blogging isn&#8217;t for everyone. And if you&#8217;re hoping to make a national name for yourself as an amateur wordsmith, you&#8217;re about 3-4 years late to the party.
For everyone else (people with opinions, writers, pundits, and social networkers) regular blogging is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I delete soft sell comments?</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/should-i-delete-soft-sell-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web etiquette]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I nuke hard sell comments as soon as they are published to Smooth Harold (read: &#8220;Nice blog! Check out this really cool snake oil!&#8221;). I also reserve the right to delete profane or otherwise mindless provocative comments while Akismet takes care of the spam.
But what do I do with soft sell comments? The comments that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls publish more online than boys</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/girls-publish-more-online-than-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says the New York Times:
&#8220;Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are digitally effusive teenage girls (not boys).&#8221;
I believe it.
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		<title>Casual blogging not just lunch money now</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/casual-blogging-not-just-lunch-money-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/casual-blogging-not-just-lunch-money-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[will blog for food]]></category>

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The AP reports: &#8220;Zach Brooks pocketed $1,000 this month blogging about the cheap lunches he discovers around midtown Manhattan. The site, Midtownlunch.com, is just a year and a half old and gets only about 2,000 readers daily&#8230;&#8221;
Without soliciting ad space, I averaged $575/month ($19/day) in 2007 across my two blogs (the other being Infendo). They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasty commenters give me thick skin and chutzpah</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/nasty-commenters-give-me-thick-skin-and-chutzpah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/nasty-commenters-give-me-thick-skin-and-chutzpah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifehacks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smoothharold.com/wp/?p=693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a professional blogger for nearly two years now, I&#8217;ve seen tens of thousands of comments aimed at me. Most of them are favorable, a lot of them are entertaining, some of them are negative, and a handful of them are just nasty. It comes with the territory when you publish your opinions, passions, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lunch with Om Malik</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/lunch-with-om-malik/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/lunch-with-om-malik/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 07:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to brunch with Om Malik on Saturday while on assignment in San Francisco over the weekend. I&#8217;m really glad it worked out as Om is one of the kindest individuals I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of meeting.
First thing that struck me about Om was the genuine interest he showed in meeting me. Malik is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/10-signs-that-you-may-be-blog-addict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/10-signs-that-you-may-be-blog-addict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Rank has a nice little piece outlining 10 signs that you may be a blog addict. Here&#8217;s my take on each point:

You always have your RSS reader open. While I am usually guilty of this, I&#8217;ve been cutting back to get more work done. Productivity for the win!
You tell customers that you missed a [...]]]></description>
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