In one day less than two months I have managed to write 200 blog posts.

This one, being the 200th.

I know this because after writing about 50 posts I thought to myself, “What else am I going to write about?”

Turns out, at this many, right now, you write about writing and how to build blog traffic.

So how did I get to this magic number in roughly two months of blogging?

It’s my job. My number one duty is to write 5 posts a day.

If being senior editor of this blog were not my job I wouldn’t have written 99% of these posts. The remaining 1% I would have posted on my personal blog.

If I were starting a blog today on my own I would follow this pattern of writing posts. I might find it harder to find topics to write about now but writing itself is much easier to do.

Why post so much?

Traffic, traffic, traffic. With my posts and the posts of John and Boonsri we’ve increased unique visitors, indexed pages, page views and keywords over 1500%. We’ve got a long way to go with this blog but by producing regular content that has interesting angles on technology we’re growing steadily.

Where do we go from here?

We keep on cranking out the posts on the topics that keep you coming here or subscribed. You can expect to see a fresh new design in the New Year, more video, more local startup news and other fun stuff we’re keeping under wraps.

Thank you guys for sticking around and helping us to grow Tech Startups! And thanks to the Network Media Holdings honchos for having us!

How to Build Blog Traffic In 60 Days is a post from: TechStartups.com

Are you the sum of your thoughts? It’s a hard question to answer, right? I’m trying to sort this out and would like your help.

The dissonance between the physical and ethereal nature of disembodied communication like the internet is a minefield for human interaction. Primarily because we rely heavily on physical cues and environmental variables to base our levels of connection with a person. We rely on their actions, not just words.

My assertion is that social networks exacerbate this inability to fully understand the people we are linked with in these networks due to experiencing their random thoughts.

Sure it is interesting to read what someone is doing throughout their day, but the only value is what the reader places on that thought to make it a reality in their own mind. Maybe that is the nature of connection?

What I am really trying to understand is that if a person can create real bonds simply through sharing their thoughts in social media?

I’ve personally been at what turned into social media for over 7 years. I’ve become many things to many people based on the types of content that I was producing. Much of that content was dependent on what I was interested in or experiencing at that time. Like this piece.

The sum of interactions in social media are related to those fleeting thoughts. When shared repeatedly with networks of people a notion of who that individual is are created. This give us the ability to create baselines for who we think a person is. A baseline for example being, they’re nice or they are a jerk.

Again, we are only dealing with thoughts to create these notions. They are assumptions as to the true nature of a person that most have yet to meet. I would posit that what happens in social media and across social networks is the connecting of thoughts. If you like someone, you like their thoughts. If you dislike someone, you dislike their thoughts. Any judgments are based on these and most likely very little on physical actions. So, if you met them in the real world you would need to attempt to ascertain all over again who that individual in front of you is.

Maybe we’re connecting thoughts first and then people with social media?

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Social Media: Connecting Thoughts Not People is a post from: TechStartups.com

Let’s face it, everyday online in your activity you are giving away your knowledge. It is being captured by the cookies on your computer, the search engines that you use and your favorite social networking sites. They know more about you and what you online than you do. It’s time to fix that.

We’re not going to stop them from they are doing, we’re going to start you down the path of capturing your knowledge, consciously. Ha! He said, knowledge and consciously. Next he’ll say, tacit. Probably, but when we get to Google Reader.

There is so much that you learn online during a day that it is impossible to remember most of it. The fact is that most of us don’t really care that it is lost. We should though when what we are losing is in the hands of others that are able to glean insight and predictive data from our behaviors of seeking knowledge online. Look, if you start grabbing this stuff now the future you will thank you.

The knowledge base that we can build today without fancy software or a Ph.D. is a reference tool for now. In the coming years things will get more interesting but for now we need to build the habits.

Below are 7 tools making the most of your smarts.

1. Browser Bookmarking

This is the best tool in the arsenal for capturing just where you’ve been and what you are interested in online.

It’s totally free and been around since the inception of browsing the internet. Get into the habit of taking 30 seconds when you land on a page that you find value in to bookmark and tag the site.

You might never come back to it but if you need it you can keyword search it on your computer.

2. Delicious

Delicious has been a mainstay of geeks, nerds and educators for a long time. It is a free, sophisticated web service that acts like browser bookmarking but is online. Delicious grabs the address of the page you are sharing, reads it, matches it to other users, tags it, creates channels for you and can act as a discovery tool for other related knowledge. The most valuable part is that Delicious maintains the added knowledge linearly.

3. Glue

Glue is a browser plugin from Adaptive Blue that brings a network of confidants with you as you browse the web. It is shallow knowledge base that exists based on your likes and recent browsing history. The lack of permanence isn’t to be feared with Glue. It should be embraced as a way to crowdsource additional content based on current knowledge needs.

4. Flickr

Your personal knowledge base should extend beyond the internet. Take your physical world knowledge and put it online. Flickr allows you to put your photos online and create metadata around them for search, categorization and your own recollection. It is also a great place to put screen captures from the sites you visit online.

5. YouTube

This is for the video hound. If capturing your knowledge is akin to Cpt. Kirk putting together his log, video may be for you. This is a brilliant way for the visual and auditory types to create a resource for themselves. The key with this one is the required metadata that will be needed to create value from it. The most valuable would be to play the video back and create an outline from it. Less than a transcript but more than a title and brief description.

6. Blogging

This is another low threshold way to create a knowledge base that is usable from the moment you begin and portable. Blogging is journaling, the time honored tradition of communication. In this context you are communicating with yourself. Find a popular blogging site or install your own and keep it private when you begin. Give yourself the opportunity to be honest without censorship.

7. Google Reader

This is the most powerful of the lot. It comes as close to capturing your tacit knowledge as we can get while being cognizant of sharing it. Google Reader allows this with an inherently intuitive element in its interface – the share button. It is strategically placed at the end of an article. So that when actually read a user can choose to share it.

This feature allows you to first choose to subscribe to sites via feeds, read a post of interest and then decide if it was of value to you by sharing it. Google stuffs your shared items away for you from day one and allows you to access them with a search feature.

A personal knowledge base in digital format is a powerful tool for you to be able to understand your data trail online. It can give you insight into your interests, the ways that you think and the types of friends that you keep. Think of it as an introspection tool that can pay dividends in ways beyond self-improvement.

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7 Personal Knowledge Base Tools is a post from: TechStartups.com