Today I was surfing around HubPages and found a hilarious Hub that’s titled 10 Ways To Become Extremely Unpopular On Hubpages.com. One of our more outspoken and interesting Hubbers, rockinjoe, wrote this entertaining piece of HubPages mastery based upon his 2+ year experience that he’s had here. I’ve got two years behind me as a…
Read MoreWhitney05 Helps Us Deal With Copied Content
Here on HubPages we always stress three major, yet simple guidelines that any writer should follow when publishing content here. These guidelines were put in place to ensure that all content is written to a certain standard and that it has a good chance of being successful. These 3 guidelines are as follows: All Hubs…
Read MoreWhat were the most popular searches of 2008? Google knows.
I was just reading about about the most popular searches of 2008 over on TechCrunch this morning, which was pretty interesting. I guess that Google publishes all of this search data every year under the name Zeitgeist, which after looking it up on Wikipedia I realized meant ‘the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambiance…
Read More‘Tis The Season For Amazon And Ebay Capsules
Even though it’s hard to believe, it seems that it is now officially December, which means that we are smack-dab in the middle of yet another crazy holiday season filled with sales, shopping, traveling and family get-togethers. It’s so easy to get so caught up in the holiday madness that sometimes you wish that it…
Read MoreSome Interesting HubMob Stats, Facts and Figures
For a little over 2 months now I’ve been running an idea that I came up with called the Weekly HubMob. Basically what the HubMob consists of is one single topic area that I choose each week that every Hubber can answer by publishing a Hub based upon their own take on the topic area.…
Read MoreThe True Power Of Linking
Chris Brogan, a super-blogger that I had the chance to meet out at BlogWorld Expo a couple months back, posted a great blog a few days ago about the vital importance of links and the basics that we all should know about them. The hyperlink is and always has been the building block if the…
Read MoreThe Long Tail of HubPages
Ok, so this is something that has been on my mind for a while, so bare with me if I start to go off on some type of blogging tangent. I just felt like I had to get these thoughts written out somewhere, even if they didn’t make the most sense at this point. There…
Read MoreTwitter officially hits the bigtime with some CNN love
There I was in Las Vegas, just chillin’ in my hotel room when I saw this come up on the TV. Apparently CNN has integrated Twitter as a new way to get some real-time questions on air. The Twitter account that CNN uses is @Issue1cnn and they seem to be using the micro-blogging tool…
Read MoreIt’s All About The Connections: Thoughts, Highlights And Lessons Learned From Blog World Expo 08
After being to exposed to as much blogging as I could ever possibly handle in 3 days out at Blog World Expo 08 in Las Vegas, I have now had time to digest what all I saw, what all I attended and most importantly who all I was able to connect up with while I…
Read MoreHubPages as a Research Paper 2.0?
As the official first post of the HubPages blog, I figured that I would throw out some thoughts that I have been talking to a few people about the past couple weeks or so. These thoughts in particular revolve around the ways that students are taught in schools, specifically college, how it hasn’t changed in…
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