With each blog incarnation (i.e., reboot, redesign, or relaunch) things are usually updated, upgraded, or improved. But how about a downgrade? After months of dealing with spammers and denial of service attacks, I’ve decided to pass the bandwidth buck. I’ll be migrating my personally-hosted, personally-managed WordPress blog over to the free, yet acceptable, Blogger. Here’s [...]
If you’re not using FeedBurner, now is a good time to try it out. FeedBurner is a site that allows you to share your content with others through a central service for distribution. (Okay I tried to make it sound simple, but RSS is sure a lot simpler.) So why now? FeedBurner has just given [...]
I know I’m not the only one. Comment spam is frustrating people all across the blogoshpere. I moderate comments and have even gone through the hoops of using great plugins such as Akismet, Bad Behavior, Comments Post Rewriter, and Spam Karma 2. Unfortunately, the issue has nothing to do with the amount of comment spam [...]
Well, I’m pretty sure that Emily Post has never written a blogging etiquette book, but there are definitely a number of written and unwritten rules. One unwritten rule that I would like to see more in practice is the etiquette of updating post content. I haven’t seen it written, yet. But I highly doubt that [...]
In blogging, your sidebar is a great place to provide a list of links. Here’s a quick tip: keep it relevant. Think about it. Are links to every real estate agent or mortgage broker really helpful to your potential clients? Probably not. You have to give your visitors what they need. Don’t devalue your site [...]
Duplicate content is becoming a very big deal. A lot of people copy-n-paste articles because it’s easy. Even if you’re trying to share good information with your readers, it’s not a good idea to copy. You’ll get banned from search engines and it infringes on others’ rights. One legitimate way of getting unique content is [...]
Okay, it’s my fault. I broke it. As I tested my Talkr podcast, I broke my Feedburner feeds. So sorry to all you RSS feeders. What happened? All my feeds are forwarded to FeedBurner. This allows me to better manage my feed statistics as well as offload the [minimal] feed bandwidth. When I Talkr-enabled my [...]
Are you a victim of a splogger? Maybe a spinger? Got comment spam? Here are a few ways that you can fight back. Please share if you have other ideas! Install quality anti-spam plugins to your blog Enable comment moderation Ask to be removed from their feeds Add the culprit to SplogSpot, a listing of [...]
Well, I’ve finally done it. I’m now officially podcasting. (Okay, maybe I should probably say that it’s in beta.) I’m using the Talkr blog-to-podcast service. It automatically converts my entire blog into an audio podcast. This means I don’t have to say a word! If you listen to the podcast, let me assure you that [...]
Well it looks like I’m signing up for yet another service, coComment. coComment is a comment management application (yep another web2.0 app) to help you track where you’ve commented. I’ve tried in the past but thought it was rather limiting and impractical. However, Jim mentions that there have been some great upgrades. In addition to [...]