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BLOG TRAFFIC: BOOMERPDX FROM NATION TO NATION

December 15, 2020 by

Blog traffic map via google analytics. The big difference between the top map and every other map of the world is that this one tracks where the hits, the readers, the bots, showing up on boomerpdx originate. It’s a blog traffic map, which isn’t very writerly since geography isn’t about plot, story structure, or how […]

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INFORMATIONAL BLOG REVIEW, PANDEMIC VERSION

October 22, 2020 by

An informational blog does one thing best: it informs. But you know that. From a professional blogging point of view, the information on a blog needs to stay on topic. This blog, boomerpdx, sounds like a Baby Boomer blog, and it is. But like the now second biggest demographic in America, thanks millennials, the sky […]

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PROFESSIONAL BLOGGER or HOBBY BLOGGER

October 7, 2020 by

A professional blogger reads the room, knows their audience, and edits like a crazy person. Being a professional means never getting caught mistaking to, too, or two. The same with they’re, there, and their. Accept and except, its and it’s fill out the card. Being a pro means taking greater interests in what moves the […]

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BLOGGER COMMUNITY, NOT A WRITING COMMUNITY

June 4, 2020 by

The blogger community runs parallel to the writing community. From most vantage points, it’s looks similar, but it’s not. The biggest difference is accountability, and that means money, a question of either making money, spending money, or both. The correct answer is both.

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NEW BLOG QUESTION ON TWITTER, SO I ANSWERED

December 8, 2019 by

During a cruise through the twitterverse, one interesting question appeared, the question of starting a new blog. The query seemed sincere, so I responded with this: use WordPress, genesis framework, and a mobile-ready Studiopress theme, along with yoast seo. Now you’re ready to launch. It turned into a useful conversation with a writer in what […]

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HISTORY BEGINNER: COMMON BASICS FROM UNCOMMON BLOGGER

October 15, 2019 by

Long stories blur into each other the more they’re told. Eventually a common thread emerges. I’m a history beginner, you’re a history beginner, we all be history beginners. If you don’t agree, then visit a new place, a place where you don’t speak the language, a place with different food, where you essentially throw yourself […]

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BLOG READERS, BOTS, AND WRITERS

July 10, 2019 by

Google analytics on blog readers is either the biggest tattletale in history, or an effective research tool. It shows and tells where blog readers like you find boomerpdx. Apparently I’m a big hit in Chicago, at least that’s what the bots say. Bot? What else hits a blogger page fifty times for an average of […]

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BOOMERPDX: FORTY STATES HIT THIS BLOG

April 5, 2019 by

Blogging is dead, long live blogging? Does that mean boomerpdx is dead, too? Or, All hail the podcast? Now I need a boomerpdx podcast? Books were called dead not too long ago, but they refused to go quietly. What, I’ve got to write a book to support books and reading? Reading was dying, but didn’t […]

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BLOG PLATFORM, WRITER PLATFORM, LAUNCHES MEMOIR

February 26, 2019 by

We’ve got a joke, or more accurately my blog efforts get ridiculed, around the keyboard. Goes like this: “Why do you always write about yourself, or put yourself into every post?” I answer by spelling memoir, as in memoir blogger. “M-e … m-o-i-r. You can’t spell memoir without M and E.” Hilarity is supposed to […]

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