The impact of the deeper-than-expected multi-day cuts to BuzzFeed continue, with more layoffs being announced via tweet, with more of today’s seeming to come from the buzz side of the operation rather than the news side (which was hit hard on Friday) ...

I became a globe trotting pro blogger in part through the power of detachment. Blogging outcomes weigh you down and slow your blogging growth, if you are not careful.

Rapper CupcakKe was hospitalised this week after worrying tweets, highlighting the increasing frequency of posts that need urgent responses.

This is an imperfect but helpful idea. Sometimes, content requires a substantial time investment. Benchmark reports, ebooks, data analysis, etc., can’t be useful with significant research and editing. In this case, time invested correlates with quali ...

How do you regularly produce great content? We'll explain how in this post, which covers content marketing culure, strategy and process.

Have you heard the saying, “content is king?” Well, of course, you have. But creating more content won’t necessarily get you more search traffic. You’ve heard people like me mention stats like the average piece of content that ranks on page one of Go ...

Love them or hate them, infographics are still used as a popular link building tactic. Do they work, though, and what other types of content are they competing with? Darren Kingman analyzed one prolific publisher's content to find out.

In a recent conversation with Intercom content director John Collins, I mentioned how much Animalz customers admire the Intercom blog. A number have even asked that we help make their own blogs more like Intercom’s. In his classic Irish brogue, he q ...

All successful content marketing is successful in the same way. At least, that was our instinct and we wanted to prove it. We’ve seen many blog posts take off, delivering a steady flow of organic traffic for months and years. We’ve also seen plenty ...

Writing great blog post titles doesn't have to be hard. Here are five frameworks to help you write better titles for every article you create.

Google announced Thursday that it deleted 58 accounts with ties to Iran on its video platform YouTube and its other sites.

When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was a tightly controlled experience. Demand far exceeded supply. You could only buy the devices at Apple and AT&T stores. There was no App Store and therefore no third-party apps. Things have chan ...

How does this make sense? The Washington Post has its own actual newspaper. It’s not my fault that print media is growing more obsolete every day. I wish it wasn’t because I like newspapers, but that’s technology. Not only do they have their own publ ...

Free lunch essentially means that “an individual or group can be provided a good or service at no cost to the individual receiving the bene­fit or to anyone else.” Obviously, as the saying goes, “there ain’t no such thing as free lunch.” Someone alw ...

Learning from artists, scientists, and Nobel Prize winners.

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

You write something. Then you hear the worst sound ever.

In an era of illiterate racist YouTube comments, to worry about semicolons seeming overly sophisticated would be splitting a hair that no longer exists.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

Let go of your misconceptions, or your creativity will never breathe. When someone identifies themselves as creative, or tells you that their biggest strength is their creativity, you instantly feel a certain level of respect for them. They’re crea ...