blogging

The Advantages of Being a Twitter Blogger

August 20, 2010

Some people, like WebSavvyEditor, don’t have a blog which they link to in their Twitter profile. I think these are interesting people. First of all, they don’t spend a lot of time fussing around with a blog that needs a template, possibly ads and analytics and other assorted gadgets and gizmos. They have time to [...]

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Six Reasons I Like Having a Microblog in my Sidebar

August 18, 2010

Why I like having a micro/miniblog in my sidebar… There are always little things I find online and want to stick into my blog. I don’t want to turn every little thing into a full blown post when it can stand on it’s own with just a linkback to the source. It gives readers something [...]

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Comments in Moderation

August 12, 2010

Why do some bloggers use comment moderation as well as word verification? If you are moderating your comments do so. Why stick people with typing in their email address (as proof they are not bots) then torment them with trying to read word verification. I get the word verification wrong at least one out of [...]

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What do to with an Unused Web Domain

August 4, 2010

I’m not a domain seller, I’ve bought a few and find that I just can’t spread myself thin enough to make use of all of them as I’d wanted to. So, next stop is to make a decision about them. To use them in some way or to sell them. As it turns out, the [...]

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Blog Ethics: Writing a Disclosure

August 2, 2010

Do you need to write a disclosure for your blog? I’m not running a disclosure on my blog. I decided not to but changed my mind. I am only running one paid ad in my sidebar. I don’t have a personal connection to the company the ad is from or the agency who pays me [...]

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Making Headway with Headway WP Theme

July 24, 2010

After seeing  April Tara’s blog I was pretty sure I wanted to try Headway. Her blog has some of my favourite things which I was using with the Thesis theme. I spent a couple of hours looking at themes. Before choosing Thesis I spent years looking at free themes and patching together what I wanted [...]

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Comment Spam is Not Worth Building

July 21, 2010

This is what I wrote to Hubpages after deleting comment spam from one of their topic writers. Please let your topic writers know comment spam reflects on Hubpages as a network. Not just individual topic writers. If they can take the time to comment they could take the time to leave a real comment versus [...]

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Geotagging Your Blog

July 18, 2010

You don’t need to add a geotag to your site or blog. At the moment it is an interesting sidenote more than something practical. However, I can see it evolving and growing as we begin to use the Internet for more than just online socializing. There is offline socializing too, after all. People have been [...]

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Email Bankruptcy

July 7, 2010

Amanda at BloggerBuster declared email bankruptcy in May this year. She is trying to bring her site back to life after taking a break for several months. It is a chore to catch up and revamp and find out what you didn’t keep up with while you were ignoring your blog awhile. She decided not [...]

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Note: WordPress 3.0 is Anti-Social

June 24, 2010

I hope to have my blog up and running by tonight. But, I am having to do battle with the new WordPress upgrade. First, it won’t let me upgrade any plugins, new or old. I did have them all deactivated before installing the new WP. Then, WP insists it is not fully installed or has [...]

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Black Backgrounds Have Glare

June 23, 2010

One more reason not to use a black background on a website or blog… Glare! I have a new monitor, one that stretches wider than it is tall. It is also shiny for some reason. The one that came with this computer was not shiny but this one is. Anyway, I find websites and blogs [...]

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Add a Blog Review to your Email Signature

May 28, 2010

Another reason to get someone to give your blog a fabulous review: promotion of your blog in your email or web forum signature. Email signatures are very underused. Even my own just has the bare essentials with links to this site and thatgrrl.ca which is part landing page and part shop of curiousities for me. [...]

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Article Directories for Your Own Writing?

May 16, 2010

I’ve been working on my web directory, for links. Today I wandered into a WordPress plugin which lets you create an article directory. Not sure yet if it is part of your blog, a separate page, or a blog on it’s own. Perhaps it could be either way as both would make sense depending on [...]

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A Post is Not a Blog!

May 9, 2010

I don’t like what seems to be a new trend, to call a blog post a blog in itself. Maybe it seems like a cute short form to some people. It is not. It is just incorrect, misleading and silly. If you refer to your last blog I assume you are talking about some other [...]

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Reasons for a Writer to Keep a Blog

April 27, 2010

Jane at Writers Digest writes about the purpose in starting a blog before you have a book or your own writing of another kind, to promote. What do you put on your site or blog when you have no book? Here’s a starter list of ideas. Keep in mind you don’t have to blog. A [...]

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