Blogging

For those who visit the site rather than subscribing, you will notice a change in style. This is down to the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 which I have finally got round to putting into place. Will have a look at the various available templates at some point in the future, but at the moment the … Keep reading

Steven Streight asks What is the Killer App for Blogs? I wonder: has the killer app for blogs been realized yet? What implementation of blogging holds the greatest promise for the future? I really don’t think the perfect and ideal utilization of blogs is the digital diary. Why? Because these are being abandoned, and the … Keep reading

Interesting article on the BBC News site about blogging: Weblogs started off as a personal outpouring, a kind of digital diary. If you work on the basis that a problem shared is a problem halved, you can share with millions and – who knows? Now blogs feature everything from cant on cars, opinions on opera, … Keep reading

From Scbole: Diego wants off of my link blog Diego doesn’t want me to republish his blog posts. So far he’s the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe so that I don’t see their posts anymore and am not tempted to link to … Keep reading

Some good advice from Susan Mernit: How to grow your (blogging) audience The traffic to this blog has gone up in the past three months, and it’s surely at least in part a result of some things I consciously put into practice. So, in the interests of transparency and sharing, here are some best practices: … Keep reading