Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog started a group writing project: What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? A number of great posts have already been submitted. My favorite is How Do You Explain Blogging to Your Mom? by Char at Essential Keystrokes. To me, blogging is a large city filled with hundreds of small neighborhoods. When you first start to … Read more
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog has honored me by naming me a Successful Blog SOB. Thanks, Liz! Being called a Successful and Outstanding Blogger, especially by someone I respect as much as I do Liz, has made me feel much better after being under the weather for several days.
Laura Spencer at Writing Thoughts has awarded the Thinking Blogger award to this blog. Iker Yoldas at The Thinking Blog created the award and describes the award and the rules in Thinking Blogger Awards. The award recognizes blogs that make people think, and those who receive the award then pass the award on to five … Read more
I didn’t know until I read on Writing Thoughts that most blog platforms have a built-in “no follow” code for comments. That means that if you make a comment, the search engines don’t follow that link and give you credit for an incoming link. This was designed to prevent links in spam comments being followed … Read more
After bemoaning the many spam comments on blogs, I downloaded the Akismet plugin for WordPress … and I haven’t had a spam comment since! According to Akismet’s Web site, it is catching more than 600,000 spam comments a day, and 94% of all comments are spam. If your blog is being buried in spam, I recommend … Read more
Are you overwhelmed with spam these days? An article in the New York Times reports: “Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year, according to Ironport, a spam filtering firm, and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet.” And spam in blog comments is just as … Read more
I knew WordPress blogs are available for subscription as RSS feeds … but I didn’t really understand how to do it. Now that I’ve recently upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, I’ve discovered how simple it is with this browser. David Bowles explains how to subscribe to his blog (and you can use his instructions to … Read more