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blog tech


Posterous to shelter Ning orphans

April 17, 2010

The problem with anything “free” is that it often doesn’t stay free. Ning is a case in point. (I’d link to the site, but they’re currently down.) Ning allowed you to set up your own social networks, completely for free. I tried Ning out, and even paid for the service for a year, but I [...]

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Guard your blog’s most important asset

March 28, 2010

What’s your blog’s most important asset? Here’s a clue. Foursquare Goes Dark Too. Unintentionally. reports: “While the site is back up and running now, it appears that Foursquare forgot to renew their domain name, which expired on March 25. As a result, GoDaddy, the registrar, pulled the site and put up their own landing page. [...]

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Blog host: how to choose a blog host

March 27, 2010

Which blog host will you choose? Over the years, I’ve created and managed many blogs, on many different hosts. Some hosts were outstanding, others were a complete and utter disaster. (I don’t need to name the disasters, because they’ve long vanished from the web.) When you’re looking for a great blog host, decide whether you [...]

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Your Blogger blog: no more FTP to your own domain

January 25, 2010

If you’ve been FTPing your Blogger blog to your own domain, this feature will no longer be supported. Blogger Buzz: Important Note to FTP Users reports: “we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for [...]

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How to Find a Great Hosting Company for Your Blog

December 31, 2008

Starting your first blog is nerve-wracking enough, without wondering whether the hosting company to which you’re entrusting your baby will take care of it. Finding a web host you can trust usually means asking your friends and asking on forums, because if you search the web for “web host” it gets too confusing. Everyone struggles, [...]

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Before you choose the perfect WordPress theme

May 19, 2008

Image via Wikipedia You’ve just installed a new WordPress blog. What’s the first thing you do? Choose a theme, right? No… the first thing you do is plan your content, and write at least five blog posts, in a couple of categories. It’s tempting to fiddle around with themes, but without content, you won’t be [...]

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Blogging and Twittering

May 13, 2008

If you’re a Twitter user, you probably rely on your friends and followers knowing who you are. Otherwise they wouldn’t be following you, would they? However, many people will come across your tweets and won’t have a clue who you are. Here’s a clever trick. Does Your Blog Have a Twitter Landing Page? – Search [...]

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Improve your blogging with Twitter

March 14, 2008

When I first became aware of Twitter, I thought it was a waste of precious time for bloggers – the time you spend creating a dinky 140 character post was better spent writing a REAL post. Oddly enough, I’ve become a confirmed Twitter user. I’ve got lots of blogs, and I post links to blog [...]

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Space boost for WordPress.com blogs

January 22, 2008

Starting a personal blog? If so, WordPress.com may become your blogging platform of choice. Interesting news in Free Space to Three Gigabytes « WordPress.com; Matt Mullenweg says: “Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space [...]

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Get up and go: moving your blog to a new host

January 21, 2008

For various reasons, I took the big step of moving several of my blogs last week. I’d been meaning to do it for a while, but put it off, as you do with things you suspect will be an unpleasant hassle. Well – I was wrong. The move went smoothly – so smoothly that I’m [...]

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