It’s not often you come across an article that is absolutely spot on with its commentary yet at the same time hilarious.
The article in question is titled 11 Mistakes Your Blog Makes In Bed, and uses sex as a metaphor for blogging.
Michelle’s list of blogging faux pas begins with the following mistake many bloggers […]
In the latest ad campaign for their new Ask3D search engine, Ask.com have employed the services of Ask A Ninja.
From now until September the Ask A Ninja video blog will end with the ninja prompting viewers to use Ask.com to search for bonus content.
“This episode was brought to you by Ask.com,” screeches the ninja […]
Whenever you make changes to your blogs design (this includes any new plugins you install), it’s a good idea to test whether those modifications are being rendered correctly by different web browsers.
Unfortunately all the major browsers render pages differently and I’ve often found the smallest change can completely mess up my blog. Most of […]
While the built-in editor for Wordpress does the trick most of the time, it’s features are rather simple and don’t allow for more advanced post layouts without getting your hands dirty with some HTML coding.
If you are looking for a more flexible and sophisticated way to compose your posts there are a few blog […]
Microsoft have released the second beta of Windows Live Writer, their WYSIWYG blog editing application. This new version (beta 2) has a plethora of updated features and fixes, not to mention a new GUI design which brings it more in line with the Vista look and feel.
I’ve been testing it out this afternoon and […]
I was just browsing Technorati and noticed a new badge sitting next to my blog rank, identifying it as a top 5k blog. Technorati seem to love making these minor changes and not letting anyone know about it.
Previously only blogs in the top 100 received this badge but now it looks like 10k is […]
On a whim I went and checked out how my blog ranked in Google Blog Search and was surprised to find I didn’t rank nearly as well for the terms I normally rank for. I don’t use Google Blog Search so I wasn’t aware that its ranking mechanism was different from Google Web Search.
After […]
Alex King has created a plugin for Wordpress called Twitter Tools, which comprehensively integrates your blog with your Twitter account.
Here are some of the features:
Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
Create a blog post from each of your tweets
Create a daily digest post of your tweets
Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post […]
Twitter’s popularity just keeps on growing, and considering nine out of every ten people using it have their own blog this is a really smart move from the MyBlogLog team.
Here’s what Eric had to say about the new feature:
As of today, your Twitter can now be broadcast on MyBlogLog too. If you have a Twitter account, just […]
In the last month I’ve seen a few blogs stumble. Some have disappeared altogether, others are are still kicking about but are updated infrequently, which ultimately is just the same as if they had ceased to exist.
What did they do wrong? Why did they fail?
There are some common reasons people often bring up:
Burnout.
Lack of motivation or […]
