Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo

This week’s swipe file contains ten links that captured my attention during the week. I’ll be experimenting with one of the formats suggested in my earlier Rethinking Links post, and I’m interested to know what you think of it. The links for each week are all stored in the Skelliewag tumblelog.

Quotes

“Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as we know and detest it is obsolete in this day and age.”

– Tadeusz Szewczyk, 10 Steps to Success on the Net Without SEO

“I must confess that I am also not a fan of meta-blogging. I find some blogs about blogging to be rather dull, not because they are poorly written but rather because they are repetitive and do not add value.”

– Maki, The Problem with Meta-Blogging

“Before you add a new “feature” to your blog, consider whether this feature will be useful enough to your readers to overcome the additional complexity it adds to the page. Hint: almost none of them are.”

– Jeff Atwood, Thirteen Blog Clichés

“Destroy the web!”

– Netdisaster.com

“Create an email to send to the future.”

– FutureMe.org

“At the moment, the plan is to invite one commenter a month to become a blogger, but we are definitely open to adding many more. Our new comments platform is a win-win for HuffPost: it gives our community the opportunity to play an even more important role in our site, while also allowing us the chance to discover new bloggers who have already proven to be popular with our readers.”

– Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters to Become Bloggers

“We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life.”

– Found Magazine

“Question: Can you create supportive material that people can use to spread the word about you?”

– Ankesh Kothari, The Secret to Getting Others to Talk About You

“Every revision requires new writing, new words that become the essence of the site. Living sites are only as good as today’s update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren’t there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.”

– Mark Bernstein, 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

“Lots of readers have asked me how Lifehacker the book came about. While there are countless ways to get yourself a book deal, this week I’ve got a behind-the-scenes look at how this particular weblog transformed into a book.”

– Gina Trapani, Geek to live: Turn your blog into a book