Book Rapper Context: Movies and Blogs

Have you ever wondered where the word ‘movie’ comes from? Usually, when something new is invented, it takes the name of some thing that exists, something that is already familiar to us. For example, the internet was once called an ‘information superhighway’. The ‘car’ was the ‘motor car’ which came from ‘motor carriage’. Before that, […]

We Blog 3: How to Make Money From Your Blog

Four ways to make money from your blog

While your blog can be a labour of love, it can also be a profit centre for your business or the centrepiece of your entire business. It all depends on the makeup and stats of your readership. Here are four strategies to consider in order to make money from your blog.  This is an excerpt […]

Join the Microblog set – Start Tweetering, I just did…

In our previous RAP, We Blog, we looked at the whole blogging thing. As part of this, in our Book Rapper Context, we outlined the path of the web: From websites to blogs and to microblogs. The easiest way to describe this progression is to say: The web just got faster! Historically, this acceleration parallels […]