Mal on February 22nd, 2007

From the Problogger, Darren Rowse - How to Add to Blogging Conversations And Eliminate the Echo Chamber. For it to be a conversation then each post should add some content to the dialogue.
From Techcrunch - Look Out MyBlogLog - Here Comes Explode. This could be interesting for social bookmarking.
The Technosailor tells us How to Enhance [...]

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Mal on February 22nd, 2007

The other day I decided to upgrade two of my Wordpress blogs from version 2.04 and 2.05 to version 2.1, mainly because the provider of my webhosting servers was insisting.  I went to the script library in cPanel and found the new version listed, along with the upgrade button. Nothing happened when I pressed it.
So, it [...]

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When writing a post, if you use a term that might not be clear to some readers, make it a link to the appropriate Wikipedia entry.
For example, in a post intended for beginners, Your first blog, I used the term WYSIWYG to describe a feature of some editors.  This term can be linked, as I have done, [...]

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Mal on February 19th, 2007

There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when choosing a platform for your first blog:
 * Do I want a free blog, or do I want to pay for it
 * Do I want it hosted on a blog platform, or do I want to host it on my own website with my own [...]

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Mal on February 4th, 2007

Blogging is presently the most popular way for people to put content onto a website. To put it simply, a blog, short for weblog, is a website which has a simple interface whereby the owner can place content easily and quickly onto the site. No knowledge of coding or page design, no use of FTP [...]

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