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I haven't read the book but technical blogging has been really working out well for me. Thanks to my blog ( http://blog.vjeux.com/ ) I've been contacted by many companies and recruited for an awesome job!

I've written an article about all the benefits of a technical blog if you are interested in my views on the subject :)

http://blog.vjeux.com/2011/analysis/start-a-technical-blog-i...

I bought this book in beta and used the information to launch http://os-blog.com. Probably the best testimonial I can give is telling you about my own success thus far: It's been a little under a month and analytics has the site pegged at ~30k unique visitors (thanks in no small part to HN).

The book won't transform you into a blogging sensation overnight, but it does have a lot of good information on technical blogging. If you're thinking about blogging about technical things, you should buy it.

> used the information to launch http://os-blog.com

What engine are you using?

No engine, it's just static HTML files generated by Jekyll. Source is here: https://github.com/robertseaton/os-blog

Blogging is something I've tried to do a few times, but have never stuck with it. I bought this book the other day, during the pragprog sale. I'm really looking forward to reading it and hoping it will teach/inspire me to give tech blogging an honest try.

Nice to find this shared here. Been blogging for almost 6 years now, yet I found many useful ideas and tips in Antonio's book. (Disclaimer: I work in Antonio's team, so I got to read the book from its very first chapters.)

Not to sound negative, I'll basically buy anything recommended by Derek Sivers, but this isn't much of an article or review.

I agree. This may well be an excellent book, but the linked page triggers a huge number of my scam/self-help/multi-level-marketing/blowhard alarms. My first impression on seeing that page is that it looks remarkably like one of those "Work At Home, $80/hour, This Housewife Got Rich In Her Spare Time!" sites.

It's actually $120/hour. ;-) More seriously, you'll probably find the book to be less "marketing heavy" than that. Here is what Peter Cooper, of Ruby Inside fame had to say about the book (he was an early reviewer):

"Technical Blogging confidently straddles the line of showing exactly what a blog can do for you or your career, while being grounded and practical enough for us technical folks not to start running away from marketing speak. Antonio has done a great job."

Hi spindritf, it doesn't read much like an article or review because it isn't one. It is the temporary landing page for the book, and someone spotted it and submitted it to HN. So I agree, right now it's a bit "marketing heavy" for this crowd. In the future, this page will disappear in favor of an actual blog on the same subject of the book.

If you want a static blog without the hassles try http://calepin.co Tag line is: "Im in ur dropbox publishing ur markdownz"

> Custom domain. Not yet, but stay tuned.

For SEO and other reasons, you may want your 'Internet presence' on your own domain. Especially to self-promote.

Custom domains are for hipsters and corporations, not personal blogs.

Get a clue!

Very interesting.

Skip the book. Start a blog, add Google Ads. Done.

Or post everything for free (without compensation) on Facebook or Google+. I'm sure they appreciate the traffic.

I think it's great that so many people are publishing via Facebook, Google+, but they are really losing out on advertising revenue.

Because seriously: despite anything you post on Facebook or Google+, you are providing value for Facebook/Google, and you are getting shafted!

Fun to watch the fleecing going on!

> Skip the book. Start a blog, add Google Ads. Done.

Spoiler: this is a very bad idea, and not an uncommon attitude among programmers. I make thousands of dollars from my technical blogs every month, and I certainly don't do so from Google Ads (it would require me to have a huge amount of traffic to pull it off).

Elsewhere you said "Custom domains are for hipsters and corporations".

At this point I'm not sure if you are serious or trolling.

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