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Guest Post: Branding Your Blog

With some social media experience under my belt (in addition to freelancing work that has led me to some top social media mavens), the topic of blogging and branding your blog has always held a special interest in my heart. In this guest post, reader Kate talks about the importance of branding your blog and chronicles her journey in re-branding. Enjoy! What do you do when your blog isn’t such a good fit for you anymore? I have been wondering about this for a while now. There were many times I would post something and think, "Wow, my blog really has nothing to do with what it's called." Usually I would shrug it off and tell myself it didn't really matter. After all,...

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Captcha Advertisements: Brilliantly Evil

I hate Captcha systems and find them extremely irritating. It's not only the act of having to type out the characters on screen, but the fact that deciphering some Captcha systems can be immensely difficult makes me feel less of a human somehow. (Because you know, the whole point of having Captcha systems in place is to weed out the bots.) Enter Solve Media, a start-up based in New York. Solve has decided that Capcha systems are not annoying enough on their own — they must be supplemented by another major annoyance of the web: online ads. As Solve sees it, their new Captcha advertisements will not only benefit advertisers by forcing visitors to look at — and comprehend — the ad, but will...

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