Category: Weblogs

  • First steps in understanding the Arabic-speaking blogosphere

    In light of what’s happening in Iran at the moment, and the role of social media in connecting people, a new report on the Arabic blogosphere makes for interesting reading. While Iran isn’t an Arab country, its location and influence…

  • Easy upgrading WordPress to version 2.8

    A new version 2.8 of WordPress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version. 2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are –…

  • Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for June 2009

    The latest ranking information for UK blogs, for June 2009, is about to be published by Wikio, the information portal and news search engine. As with each month this year, my friends there have let me have an advance look…

  • Exposing your analytics

    The new Google Analytics Data Export API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting. […] this plugin…

  • Enriching content with Apture

    I’m a huge fan of Apture, the web service that turbo-charges links on your site to content elsewhere on the web that presents it in a discreet popup in the page you’re reading – you don’t have to leave to…