Category: Weblogs

  • A dozen tips on brand-building with blogs

    There’s a great post by Darren Rowse at ProBlogger with advice on how to build your personal brand with a blog. Darren offers seven specific tips (read his post for the details on each one): Build trust Be personal Use story…

  • PHP 5.2.2 breaks XML-RPC in WordPress

    If you use an offline blog editor like ecto or BlogJet, and the server hosting your WordPress blog uses PHP version 5.2.2, you might encounter the problem I have for the past 24 hours. What happened was that every time…

  • When changing a post title is the right thing to do

    Last December, I wrote a pretty scathing post about Dolphin Music in which I vented my anger at the company’s poor customer service. I entitled that post “Recommendation: Don’t buy from Dolphin Music.” Today I added some new content at…

  • Timely changes from Technorati

    Blog search engine Technorati relaunched itself yesterday. All the details are in Dave Sifry’s post. Here’s a highlight that sets the scene for understanding what Technorati has done: […] the world has changed. Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of…

  • WordPress 2.2 released

    A few weeks late but it’s now available – version 2.2 of the WordPress blog platform. This version includes many new features and over two hundred bug fixes. If you’re running any previous version, the time is now to upgrade.…