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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Finally caught up enough to download and install the new WordPress 2.6.2. Don’t see any major changes inside the blog but there is a good reason to upgrade ASAP if you are using any of the 2.6 versions.
To quote from the WordPress blog
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and [...]
Hosting WordPress - What do you need
Monday, September 8th, 2008I have long recommended that you host your own blog especially for the sites that are “money sites”. I just am not comfortable with letting some one else have control of the sites I use that generate my income.
Due to this I tend to use the free sites to help improve the hosted blog with [...]
Google Chrome - A comic book to launch it?
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Google is launching their browser today and doing it in a different way. Someone leaked the comic book they are using to explain it. Yes I said a comic book.
Now I have not seen the browser but will be looking forward to trying it. It will be open source similar to Firefox and after reviewing [...]
Using your feed as a signature
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Just found a neat site that I am testing out - Feedsr.us. See the sample below.
feedsr.us - RSS-Feeds als Signatur
This links directly to my marketing blog. It changes the titles as I post new items to my blog.
It took me less than 5 minutes to create it and gives you the code in regular html [...]
Twitter and Impact Boot Camp
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Ken McArthur is holding his Impact Boot Camp this weekend in Philadelphia had Twitter has been a buzz. I am actually sad that I can’t go but went to DC last week and two weeks in a row would cost me my happy home.
Now one of the things that Ken McArthur is good at doing [...]
WordPress 2.6.1 released
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008WordPress just released the latest version.
Unlike some previous releases this one is not security related. To quote from the WordPress blog on the 2.6.1 release
August 15, 2008
WordPress 2.6.1
By Ryan. Filed under Releases.
With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable [...]
Generate ideas for your blog posts easily (and it may help your traffic too)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Here are a few tools to help you come up with topics for your blogging efforts. From input I get from conference rooms, surveys and comments this can often be a big problem for new and even established bloggers.
First following blogs in your niche and commenting regularly not only helps you get traffic from your [...]
Host Your Blog - The advantages and disadvantages
Friday, August 8th, 2008There are three main advantages to hosting your own blog.
You own it
Can be optimized better
Can add other items to improve your process
There are also a couple disadvantages.
It does have a monetary cost
Need a bit of technical ability
Now lets get into the details.
You own it
This is probably the biggest advantage. As long as you pay for [...]
RSS Feeds - What they are and how you can use them
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008RSS is probably one of the most confused areas for people starting to blog. Everyone has heard the term either RSS, feed or the two combined RSS feed. Quite a few though don’t understand them or the power that having a feed gives you when using a blog.
Lets start with a definition from Wikipedia of [...]
Tweet My Blog Improved
Monday, July 28th, 2008If you are using Tweet My Blog make sure to download the new version. It solves the problem with editing your blog and having multiple tweets.
They also improved the appearance when Twitter goes down so you get a better dsiplay in your side bar.
If you are using Twitter and WordPress you need to check out [...]