Back in February, John Chow wrote about 10 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid. He's dead right on 9 of them (not sure about #10 ;) ), and it's definitely worth both a read now and a bookmark for reading at least once a week from now on. I know I will.
A huge thanks goes out to Staska.Net who pointed me to Ronald's fix for the new "feature" in WordPress 2.1 that cuts off your RSS feeds at the <!-- more --> tag. I had to use that tag in order to format my homepage the way I wanted to, so I had just resigned myself to having to publish only a partial feed. Not anymore! Now I can have the best of both worlds, ... Keep reading »
My fling with Paris Hilton has me ranking #6 in Google right now for my fling. Gotta go explain that one to the wife before she wonders what's going on.
Well not long after Spivot redoes their site to do a much better job of respecting the rights of bloggers, myLot comes along and shows us just how bad Spivot could have been. Check out one of the latest posts from Emergiblog on myLot (nofollow applied to that link). Not only do you have a scary layout of giant ad/excerpt/giant ad/tags/giant ad, but the "view full article" link opens the post in a myLot frame, not in ... Keep reading »
Several weeks ago in "Don’t Look Now, but You’re Being Followed," I wrote that I had turned off "nofollow" on this blog. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, please see the original post for more details. I think it's important that you know the background behind it.) Well now we're seeing more and more bloggers doing the same, and someone has even started a meme to spread the word. I was tagged by Stark ... Keep reading »
Christine Kane has written a great piece about "18 Stupid Mistakes Bloggers Make in their First Year." It's an outstanding read and definitely worth a trip over there. I love it because she nails so many things. You can tell she's only been blogging a year because all those beginner mistakes are still so fresh in her mind. She's also got a great-looking blog to boot. It's worth a trip just to see that.
For those of you who are new to the site this week, I keep a list in my sidebar of the great things I've read through Google Reader. They have a Share function that makes it easy to -- well -- share particularly interesting posts. I try to always put them in a post when I've built up 10 or so so that you RSS subscribers see them as well, but regular readers will tell you that ... Keep reading »
Looks like John Chow's Technorati 100 blog has been hacked by ISKORPTIX (safe link), and Geek in Paradise is reporting that the hacker has hit several other blogs as well. Looks like it may be a server hack and not a WordPress hack. Update, 18:05 Eastern: Prompted by Tim in the comments below, I've read back through everything now, and it doesn't look like we know what the problem is at all. I can't believe ... Keep reading »
Two and a half weeks after StatCounter broke the story and it began to spread across the web, SiteMeter has begun to respond to the issue both in the comments of my post and at much greater length in the comments on Eric Odem's. Despite that, though, I can still not find not find the official response they say is on their own blog, nor have they directly addressed many of the specific issues that people ... Keep reading »
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