blogging Posts

Jul 24, 2007

Many thanks to Lorelle on WordPress who wrote a great post talking about my "Bloggers are not Webmasters" and "Webmasters are not Bloggers" posts. Lorelle on Wordpress is one of the blogs in my feed reader, and I was rather surprised to see her mention my little blog. ...

Jul 6, 2007

It seems like the new Blogger just got out of beta, and now Blogger is offering a new draft version where they try out new features before releasing them to the general public. You can try out the new Blogger in draft by going directly to http://draft.blogger.com/. If you want ...

Jun 22, 2007

Webmasters are great people, but I have to admit for the most part professional webmasters are not bloggers. A bloggers main job is to do one thing, and one thing only, provide good content for a weblog. Reference.com defines a blogger as: a person who keeps and updates a blog. Webmasters ...

Jun 18, 2007

Here is the hard truth for all of you bloggers out there. Bloggers are not webmasters. According to reference.com a webmaster is: A person whose occupation is designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining websites. source: reference.com By that definition a blogger is not a webmaster and here is why. ...

May 29, 2007

One of the things that has frustrated me about Blogger, and Google to some extent, is the fact that they try to dictate to me how the links should be on my blog. For example comment links are automatically given the "nofollow" attribute. Well I don't like that. I want ...

May 25, 2007

Just read about this on BlogSecurity that the WordPress Community is Vulnerable. Of the 50 blogs they selected 49 of them were vulnerable to known security attacks. Might want to make sure you upgrade your WordPress blog software as soon as you can. This is one of ...

Mar 20, 2007

While I have been swamped with work today I have taken a few moments to surf around and found some blog posts that I would like highlight. There is an excellent post on The Reasoner titled "Are you treating your blog commentors like slaves?". ...

Mar 17, 2007

I have not been blogging for a long time, but I have been actively reading and taking part in various blogs for some time. One of the most interesting aspects of blogging is the chance to add to the conversation though comments about a post. Commenting on another persons blog ...

Mar 14, 2007

Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net asked people to list what are your top 5 blogging tools? I thought I would give a detailed response here. Blogging Platform: Blogger Unlike the majority of the commentors on Darren's blog I prefer Blogger as my blogging ...

Feb 9, 2007

Recently every blog I visited had a MyBlogLog recent readers widget added on to it, so my curiosity was peaked about what this new service that I kept seeing was. I was pleasantly surprised with the features that MyBlogLog offers. Along with the recent readers widget you ...