Now I have a number of self-hosted web sites, including this one. I have plenty of server space, and I develop websites for a living (amongst other things).
However, I am really taken with Posterous.
It’s so easy to build a blog with it.
There is nothing to do except email Posterous. You don’t even have to join [...]
I use Twitter for more than one purpose.
1. I use it to communicate between groups of online friends. Messages like “see you at the meetup on Friday”, or “hey, gas is only $1.50 a gallon here today”
2. My wife and I use it to communicate a lot. We could use regular SMS, but we have [...]
When you set up a new blog, by default the table prefixes are wp_
If you have any other prefix for that blog, you frighten yourself when you import the SQL data, as it doesn’t work!
Quick fix to that… go into the wp-config file and look for the line with wp_ in, and change it to [...]
I’ve been thinking about moving my personal blog for some time. It’s in a sub-directory, which is untidy looking to say the least, and perhaps that might affect SEO, or page ranking in some way. Anyway, what really spurned me on was an upgrade.
For some reason, upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 worked on some blogs, and [...]
This plug-in works prety darn well to filter all the comment spam on your blog. When you first start a new blog you won’t get much, but rest assured the spammers find you faster than Google on speed, and then every darn post has a few dozen links for sites for you and your readers [...]
Also tagged askimet, blog, creep, google, manhood, spam, spammers, urls, wench, wordpress, wordpress plug-insRe-newed code on some ad-links for some other blogs as I received a report that they were not working. I changed some email forwarding for a client site, and checked out the new google apps, and what services, software and tools they offer.
Also tagged email forwarding, google, google apps, services softwareI spent a little time messing around with Feedburner yesterday for some of the blogs I host. To be honest, I wasn’t too keen on adding code to the templates myself. It’s not that I can’t do it – the process is quite simple – it’s when I come around to updating the templates, I’ll [...]
Also tagged feedburner, keen, little time, templatesian.may is Digg proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache
Does Twitter Encourage Disloyalty?
A few days ago I read a comment from Jesse Stay in which he was suggesting that Twitter encourages disloyalty.
Also tagged backtype, blog disloyalty, collecta, jesse stay, twitterHe feels that Twitter encourages potential blog subscribers to not subscribe, but rely on Twitter links instead to reach the content that they want to read.
I’m not so sure that this is vastly different [...]