If you write a blog, the bad news is you have millions of competitors. The good news is most of them suck. The same problems come up again and again, keeping bloggers from building a real audience for what they have to say. So how about you? Do you commit one of these seven deadly sins with your content? 1. Selfishness This is the big one. Here’s how making money with social media works: You give away information of value. Maybe it solves an important problem. Maybe it makes people laugh.

I am slowly but surely becoming a better person, and will no doubt achieve that flawless maternal perfection epitomized by, say, Dooce in time to work it on my great-great-grandchildren. I recently managed to go from being late all the time to at least much better (and wrote about it for Parenting–look, that glam mom [...]