Beauty vloggers and cult celebrities are being courted by luxury brands.

The single most important thing to measure for every blog post you publish? How engaging it is to your audience.

A blog is only as effective as its posts. Rand offers six paths you can take to make sure your posts resonate with your audiences.

Sara Melotti, a photographer based in Indonesia, recently shed light on the competitive environment and revealed the eye-opening tactics being used by some in the community.

There are just too many of us out there. Most of us reside at the bottom of the blogging barrel, trying to scrape a recommend or two, from…

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

For most of my twenties, I jumped from one dream to the next. But through it all, I secretly wanted to be a writer.

The road to post-Owl Google from the World Wide Web project isn’t straight. But it does have some fascinating insights into how our online world took on its present shape.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

[Much of] Current internet culture is rooted in the SomethingAwful.com forums. These are the people who made it what it was. By Taylor Wofford.

LiveJournal, a blogging community that’s hosted a lot of science fiction authors and fans (including George RR Martin), has officially banned “political solicitation”— which can mean anything that criticizes the Russian government, as well as pro-LGBTQ discussions. There are also concerns users can be subject to Russian spying.

It was an advertisement for AT&T in 1994, and people clicked on it like crazy.

Bloggers are finding that their depiction of a carefree life driven by wanderlust takes a lot of work to keep up.

This long-awaited update introduces Snapzu Platinum, our new membership program that we hope can finally help pay the bills! Our blogging tools, AKA the Blog Enhancement Suite, is also live!

A US judge has granted asylum to Singaporean blogger Amos Yee, ruling that the 18-year-old qualified as a political refugee. Yee has been jailed twice for critical comments on religion and former leader Lee Kuan Yew.

How to stop making excuses and start working to build the life you want.

Nearly a year ago, Twitter announced it would begin distancing itself from the requirement that all tweets could only contain 140 characters by no longer counting some things – like media attachments or @ replies towards the character count.

Hard learned lessons distilled from 25 years of writing.

Hoping to be viewed as a thought leader in your space? Sonia Simone explains a different approach that enables you to connect with and help more people.

A 4-step plan for starting a daily blogging habit.

Yameen Rasheed, who used his Daily Panic blog to poke fun at politicians, found with stab wounds at his flat in Malé

It was August — that heady back-to-school feeling in the air — and Katie DeMasi had it all planned: She'd just finished her nursing degree and already had a job lined up at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. DeMasi had her scrubs picked out, and she spent a long and exciting day apartment hunting. Then, the next day, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare cancer of the lymphatic system. "I was ready to start my life and then this kind of put everything on hold," DeMasi says.

It's a lucrative business.

Up to 20 attackers or groups of attackers are defacing WordPress websites that haven't yet applied a recent patch for a critical vulnerability.

Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and app backends including Nest.

When your fingers are on the keyboard, your focus is the writing. But when you hit publish? A new hope takes wings. Please let them like this… If we truly were writing for ourselves, why would we publish? We’d save it for ourselves, hoarding words in dog eared notebooks or hidden on hard drives. Writer’s eyes and reader’s eyes aren’t the same.

There’s nothing virtuous about "early to bed, early to rise."

The most important rule: Don’t waste your readers’ time.

To those who think sports blogging is an invention of the modern era, guess again. Ring Lardner beat Bill Simmons and others like him by about 80-90 years.

You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?

Why are shy people such as E.B. White, J.K. Rowling, and Joan Didion drawn to writing as a career? Are shy authors more likely to grasp ‘the nature and beauty of brevity’?

"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body." - Harry J. Johnson

Great writing is a lifetime pursuit - but when you don't have a lifetime and have to write blog posts now, then we've got a strategy for you.

Justice Debbie Mortimer said Gibson was guilty of most, but not all charges levied against her.

Nobody is great without work. Hard work is always the baseline of great achievements. Nothing spectacular comes without it.