Tessa over at Sales Conversation is doing a survey on instant play audio on sites.
She wrote:

I recently did a survey on whether people like audio playing automatically on web pages or not.

Of the 81 people who responded:

80.2% (65) said they did not like automatic audio 13.6% (11) said they did like automatic audio 6.2% (5) had no opinion.

In fact quite a few people commented that if they come across a web page playing audio automatically, they immediately leave.

We will be learning how to put audio on sites but before we do that, check out Tessa’s survey and see what people are saying. In fact, vote while you are there.

Are categories and meta-tags the same thing? Absolutely not! Do not think about the search engines when you are setting up your categories. Think about your readers. Categories are a way for readers to find related posts.

I read one blog regularly because I like the content but it also drives me crazy. I counted more than 190 categories just beginning with the letters ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’! I couldn’t go on - but you get the idea. There were categories with the singular word and the plural word. One post I looked at had more than 60 categories listed. That was practically more words than were in the entire post.

Used like this, categories are useless and they just clutter your page. Most of my blogs have very few categories and rarely more than 1 category per post. If you want to do SEO (and you better want to), use meta-tags - not categories.

Before we get back to WordPress business, here is a great blogging tool - Blog Desk. In fact, I am composing this post in Blog Desk.

Here is what Johannes Oppermann, the brilliant creator of Blog Desk says about it:

As an offline weblog client, BlogDesk lets you comfortably write and effortlessly publish new entries to your blog.

No need to use those annoying HTML Tags in the WYSIWYG editor. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. Even publishing simultaneously to multiple blogs is a matter of a click.

The best news? It is available at no charge at the link above. This is an easy, intuitive client that allows you to compose offline, easily insert and manipulate images and post when you want. Give this a try. I think you’ll like it.

Absent but not goofing off.

I’ve been gathering great information for everyone which you will see over the next few days and weeks! Please stay ‘tuned’ - you won’t be sorry.