Just over a month ago, across my 3 blogs I was receiving around 500 spam comments a day to moderate. I had the latest versions of Akismet and Bad Behavior installed, and although none were reaching the blog, I still had over 500 comments to visually scan in the moderation queue, in order to remove [...]

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I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll probably keep blogging about it as long as people keep doing it: I HATE PARTIAL RSS FEEDS. Really, what is the point? If somebody subscribes to your feed, it’s because they want to read it, not just the headlines or a usually pointless 1 paragraph excerpt. I am a [...]

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Well, I can’t promise you that, but I can help you achieve a little more fame, through yet another Blogger award scheme. BloggingToFame.com is another site devoted to blogger awards, but with some serious cash prizes on offer. There’s $25,000 to the top rated blog, and $100,000 total prize fund along with the exposure that [...]

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Two great plugins that allow you to insert video and audio into your Wordpress blog.

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Some interesting results from last weeks poll where I asked how many blogs you were currently running, and whether you wanted more. Of the 25 people who voted, 72% had two or more blogs, with another 12% having one but wanting more. It does seem that once the blogging bug has bitten, most people succumb [...]

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Just a quick note to tell those of you that read RT’s blog at UntwistedVortex.com, that his domain registrar has cocked up and his blog is currently offline. He did renew his domain registration (a month ago!) but it hasn’t taken for some reason, and as a result the error message you see is up. [...]

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Web browsers are obviously a very personal choice, and although I don’t want to get into an argument over which is best (FireFox), it is very important for any webmaster to be familiar with the most popular browsers, as they can render your blog/site very differently. FireFox is a very clever piece of work that [...]

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This is going to be revealing. Josh at Time For Blogging asked what does your office or workspace look like? He posted a pic and challenged us to do the same. Here’s mine: In my defence, the wall colour was the choice of the previous owner, and will be changed. The mess unfortunately is mine…. [...]

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I use the excellent Google Reader to read the feeds of all the various blogs I’m subscribed to, and I’ve noticed that some blogs are updated much faster than others. I’ll occasionally visit a blog through a comment link for example, and see they’ve put new posts up, yet when I checked Google Reader, they [...]

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Want more Search Engine Traffic? Get it by uploading a simple text file to tell Google what to look for….

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