Infopirate.org

I have already written about Artiklz - an awesome company that allows blog owners to grab comments on their content from various social media sites and place them right below the posts they are related to, exactly where you'd expect such comments to appear. I have been watching closely their efforts in the field of consolidating conversations around blog content taking place elsewhere.

Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context. At the moment, we’re supporting publishing to Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and Tumblr with more platforms to come.

One question I often field is how to encourage more visitors to comment on your blog. In particular it seems, many of the people I’ve spoken to seem demotivated because “…nobody ever sends feed back… there’s no response…” Does this sound like you? If so, the following six tips are just for you.

For all of the millions of blogs on the web, only an incredibly small fraction generate enough revenue to serve as full time jobs. Most people are happy enough with just sharing their thoughts with the public, even if they only see a few hundred hits a months with the very occasional comment. But what if there was a way for even these small-timers to generate enough money to put food on the table?

Those of us who are daily Twitter users already grok the power of the application and it’s potential.