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Though we haven’t been officially announced to the world yet, The After Mac is up and live on the b5media blogroll. I’m blogging side by side with Adel Gabot. I don’t need to re-introduce this fun guy.
Special mention to Jon, our ever patient channel editor who’s there for the ride as well! Ironically, he’s the LINUX dude at b5. Woot!
Adel writes:
I’m a Mac evangelist wherever I go, but despite my fanaticism and residency in the Mac loony bin, I am still (oddly) cognizant of the shortcomings of our friends from One Infinite Loop. I love Macs, but I am aware there are a few things (precious few, but they’re still there) that other platforms are better at. After all this time with Apples and Macs, I have learned to step back and take a good look at what’s coming out from there and have some objectivity. I drink the kool-aid, but in moderation. I get as giddy as the next Machead over Keynote Addresses, but I still have the ability to slip out of the reality distortion field long enough to look at all things Mac with a critical eye. Sort of a tough love thing.
Which is part of the raison d’etre for this blog. Aside from covering, praising, reviewing, commenting, slobbering, sniping and poking fun at Macs and the Apple scene, we’d also like to have a sober, reasonable and sane attitude toward the platform we all love. Which means we’ll call spades spades here. The occasional voice of conscience, if you will. But more than anything, this blog will cover what has always been insanely great. Or insanely not.
So there you have it. If any of you feel you got stories about your Mac joys and frustrations that you want to share, send them our way.
Ever since the Jobs-Disney empire merger, we’ve been getting really interesting Adsense stuff like this one:
Hehe! Bookmark us now, fellow Mac afficionados. We promise daily updates.
Jeremy of Ensight has posted the open negotiations for the sale of a MASSIVE BLOG worth $40,000.00 Right now, private negotiations for the secret blog are ongoing. In a few days, the name of the blog will be revealed to the public.
There’s actually an ongoing contest with clues to determine what this blog is. No, it’s not Engadget.
This is one of the defining blogs in the industry. When I go to conferences and mention the blog, and the author, I get an “oh yeah!†kind of response. Everyone knows this blog. It’s no Engadget, but it is in the top 100 blogs in the world (in every measure but Technorati, which is inherently flawed since it counts all time links).
Blog stats:
As I said, this is a defining blog in its industry. It’s currently hitting just shy of 1M pages per month, has a PR of 7 and pushes massive traffic around with its links. It has more than 150,000 pages indexed in Yahoo/MSN and 60,000 in Google.
Read Ensight
I’m now live on Problogger.
I feel like I’m on a pedestal.
I recently volunteered to do a post for Darren Rowse’s Problogger.net as a means to jack up some PR for my site (as well as have my name Googled along with Darren !!!).
The post is part of a 12 Days of Christmas series on blogging tips from the guys over at b5.
The first round of tips have been published (“Writing Gooder” haha!) and I’m a little scared to see how my entry will be received. I was actually tempted to post the several hundred words I wrote a few days ago but I had to stop myself.
For the curious, I did a short piece on the difference between writing about technology and writing about the technology lifestyle as well as a short filler on how to differentiate your technology blog from the big behemoths in the blogosphere.
I’ll post a copy if it gets published on Problogger.