This week, I had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Steven Hodson, author of the WinExtra.com blog. WinExtra is one of those blogs that I continuously find myself reading within my feedreader. Although Steve is a cranky old man, he makes a ton of valid points that I think a lot of bloggers would [...]
December 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "blogger"
Letting Spam Loose For A Day
Mark your calenders because on December 15, 2007, WordPress user’s across the blogosphere will be turning off Akismet. Ok, not really. But Jesper Rønn-Jensen has decided to do it. He calls it, Spam Filter Free day where he will disable the Akismet anti spam tool on his blog for 24 hours to figure out, just [...]
November 29th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | ContinuedBlogger Adds Slideshow Support
Blogger has added a new tool for their user’s called the “Slideshow Page Element“. This element adds a slideshow to your page that displays photos from your Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket or any site that supports Media RSS. The photos will appear in your blogs sidebar, fading into one another. The slideshow supports navigation [...]
November 20th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedTumblr Awakes From Its Slumbr
Back in August, I wrote an article that speculated the fact that Tumblr may have been on its way out (Is Tumblr Dead?) but apparently, November 1st will be a big day for both Tumblr, and its users. According to Mark Rizzn on Mashable, Tumblepedia has been updated to describe new features, optimizations and bug [...]
October 18th, 2007 | Jeffro | 3 comments | ContinuedBloggerplay Releases iGoogle Gadget
Blogger has developed and released an iGoogle gadget for those that enjoy Blogger Play. Blogger Play is a real-time slideshow of photos Blogger users have recently uploaded to their blogs. Blogger has also added some additional functionality to Blogger Play. The keyboard can now be used to control the flow of images. The space bar [...]
October 13th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy CLIQ May Kill BlogRush
When BlogRush was released to the masses, it became the next best thing for bloggers since Akismet. BlogRush claimed it would provide it’s users with a RUSH of traffic from relevant blogs through the use of a widget. This widget would display your blog posts via credits earned by displaying posts from other blogs [...]
October 9th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | ContinuedMyBlogLog Buzz Tracker Explained
The What’s Hot In My Communities section of your MyBlogLog Profile is an easy way to track buzz worthy info but, how does MBL decide what’s hot and what’s not?
Simply put, the links you see within this area of your user profile represent the most popular links within YOUR MYBLOGLOG COMMUNITIES. If you are seeing [...]
You Comment I Follow
I just wanted to let everyone know that after reading Brad’s post on getting rid of the “No-Follow” attribute within comments, I have installed the Do-Follow Plugin.
This plugin removes the No Follow attribute that is usually attached to links that commenter’s leave. Since that is no way to treat a commenter, those links can now [...]
BloggerTalk The Bloggers Podcast
Each Tuesday at 8pm Eastern time, join a panel of expert bloggers as they discuss the latest and greatest blogging related news. Each show is performed live on Talkshoe where listeners can call in with their questions or stories related to the blogosphere. Whether it deals with monetizing your blog, RSS, generating traffic, or blogging [...]
September 22nd, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | ContinuedSave Time By Auto Filling Forms
If you spend any amount of time in the blogosphere, you’ll realize that filling in the details for the Name, Email, and URL fields repeatedly, becomes tiring. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to save time by auto filling those fields by using a FireFox Extension.
As a blogger, it’s imperative that you take an [...]
September 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued