Every week, Lorelle offers up a new blogging challenge for anyone that wants to try to improve their blogging skills. This week, the blogging challenge is about writing a political blog post. I don’t discuss politics that much because it’s no where near my area of knowledge but I figured I would make at least [...]
December 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Blogging"
Wordpress Plugin Updates
Digging into my Plugin area today, I noticed a few plugins that required updating and figured I’d let you know about them in case you have update notification turned off.
First up is Google XML Sitemaps which is now up to version 3.0.2.1 The changes for this release are:
Fixed wrong XML Schema Location (Thanks to Emanuele [...]
December 5th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
Interview With Steven Hodson Of WinExtra.com
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 | Continued
Splog And Blog - Tell The Difference
If you are a blogger, chances are, you have either dealt with spammers already, or will be doing so in the future when your blog becomes more popular. These days, spammers are using any means necessary to get their links on your blog. These tactics include link filled comments, bogus pingbacks and bogus trackbacks. What [...]
December 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 15 comments | Continued
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 | Continued
Forum2pt0 Launches And More
First off, how was your Thanksgiving? Mine turned out great if you take out the dangerous driving conditions that developed. Some lake effect snow formed over Lake Erie and as I was traveling through the snow belt on the turnpike, things became dicey at times but I managed to bring everyone home including myself, in [...]
November 25th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
Bloglines Impersonated By Spammers
If you received an email from Bloglines over the weekend, you can discount it as spam. According to Bloglines, a little less than 1,000 email messages were sent to individuals over the weekend. The email contained recommendations to various posts on a Chinese blog which were sent via the “send a post to a friend” [...]
November 20th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Back To Blogging Basics
Jason Kaneshiro of BlogHerald has written up an interesting post that describes the amount of de-cluttering posts he’s seen published around the blogosphere. In this particular post, Jason describes some of the ways he has de-clutered his own blog. From cleaning up the CSS code, to uninstalling and removing plugins, to digging into PHPMyAdmin to [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
A New Spin On Blog Spam
According to Lorelle, blog spammers have developed a new technique of scraping a blogs content and then publishing it on their own blog. The new technique centers around the use of WordPress plugins that excel in scraping the content and then using software or other plugins to replace certain words with synonyms. The result? The [...]
November 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 11 comments | Continued
CommenTag Promo Video
Here is a promo video I found on YouTube for CommenTag.org A service that lets you organize the discussions on your blog, otherwise known as comments. The system looks like it will be interesting to use and will be in private beta on January 1st, 2008 Midnight GMT.
There is very little info in regards to [...]
