photograph by Dani Simmonds So I went ahead and joined Twitter, and I am currently quite twitterpated with it. I’m always a late adopter of social media and online social network sites, as I am with this 140 character restricted micro-blogging sensation. This is mostly because I don’t always assume the latest cool thing is […]
FeedBurner, now part of the Google universe, is a service to enhance and manage RSS feeds that is used by many bloggers. Not being comfortable with hosted services myself, I had written a guide to using some WordPress plugins as FeedBurner alternatives which continues to be one of the most visited articles on this site. […]
Blog ads are in some ways the ultimate solution to monetizing your blog. All the big guns use it, and the fact that someone is willing to shell out moolah to specifically display an advertisement on your site lends a certain amount of credibility to your online presence. While making money has never been the […]
If you think I’m a lazy delinquent blog writer, you have no idea how delinquent I’ve been as a blog administrator. Web site software updates are really an essential activity for the smooth functioning of the site, and for security reasons. Any software, open source content management scripts in particular, are constantly issuing upgrades for […]
A couple of weeks ago I submitted the first article in my series on personality in blogging titled The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships to a few blog carnivals. Since then the post has been included in some carnivals. I’d like to thank the bloggers for the link love and pay them back in […]
Luciano Passuello over at Litemind recently put up the final list of entries in his Lists Group Writing Project. I had thrown in my hat into the ring with my entry about procrastination. Now it’s voting time, and as I have done before on similar projects, I decided to look though all 66 entries and […]
Always being up to a million different things is one of the perils of being me. An unfortunate side-effect is that some things tend to be neglected for a while, like this blog. One of the reasons is that I’ve been trying to research the availability and implementation of free online survey tools for WordPress. […]