As some of you may know, I, all too infrequently, post over at Blog About Your Blog. If you’ve not visited BAYB, you should check it out, as the range of authors means that there’s always something interesting to read, and if you’ve got something to say, you can always join as an author too, [...]

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Is it just me, or is unsolicited mailing from blogs on the rise? Just recently, I have received increasing amounts of mailshots from blogs I have visited, telling me about their latest post, asking me to give them a Stumble or Digg or to take part in something.
Please note, I am not talking about a [...]

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Do you know? Do you care?
Google Page Rank is another of these stats that you don’t really need to concern yourself with, unless you are monetizing your site, or if you have designs on being one of the worlds most read blogs. However, it is an interesting stat to judge your blog’s progress, and one [...]

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Last weeks poll on post excerpts didn’t really set the world on fire (unsurprisingly) with nearly 80% not being bothered by them, the majority as long as they are used in moderation.
The thing I found most interesting is that no-one chose the option of being a feed reader and being unaffected by them. Does this [...]

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Did you know that incoming links to your blog are no longer counted by Technorati after 6 months? And equally, links you gave 6 months ago are also discounted?
This was something that I was vaguely aware of, without really thinking about it, until I read The biggest Technorati tip in the world on Blogging Basics [...]

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This video is everywhere right now, and rightly so. If you haven’t seen it yet, please spare 3 minutes to watch a very informative and extremely simple clip on why reading via RSS makes so much sense.

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Video: RSS in Plain English
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Now you can see the benefit, why not read Blog-Op by RSS? Grab your [...]

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OK, you’ve installed your blog (hopefully WordPress) you know your URL, you’ve written a couple of brilliant, insightful posts, now what?
Part of the fun for me of setting up a brand new blog, is everything involved in getting it running and initial promotion. If you’ve just started, you’ll be in the same position (a later [...]

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One thing I had only recently noticed was that my FavIcon was only appearing on certain pages: it would disappear on single post pages for example.
At the exact same moment I noticed this, Will from Portrayed.org dropped the solution into a comment, so here it is for those who weren’t already doing it:
First, if you [...]

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Those of you who are webmasters and/or IT specialists should be interested in this new product from PKware: SecureZIP – The next generation of ZIP.
It’s a new method of data security which is designed to integrate seamlessly into your systems, whether you’re looking to install it across hundreds or thousands of computers on your network, [...]

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If you’re a fan of StumbleUpon (and you should be), then you might like this plugin for your WordPress blog: Random Redirect.
Very easy to install, just upload, activate and then give your readers a link to a url like this one: http://blog-op.com/?random
Obviously replace my URL with your own and you’re off and running. I’ve linked [...]

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