Are You Just Another WordPress Blog?

January 31, 2008 | Filed Under Featured, Features, WordPress | 4 Comments

I must have been really bored one day. I went through the Blogs of the Day list on WordPress.com and counted 7 out of 100 blogs with the tagline: Just another WordPress.com blog. Not a bad ratio.
I did a search on Google and found 6,490 with the same tagline on WordPress.com.

WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp Hamburg Success, Automatic Upgrades Coming, $5,000 Bounty, Prologue Theme, and WordPress Wins Again

January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Featured, Features, WordPress | 10 Comments

WordCamp Hamburg a success. Rumors are true. Automatic upgrades coming to WordPress 2.5. $5,000 bounty for tag Plugin offered. Twitter-style Prologue WordPress Theme released. WordPress wins best CMS. WordPress MU updated. And some hot WordPress Plugins have been released and updated!
WordPress News
WordCamp Hamburg: According to attendees and organizers, WordCamp Hamburg was a success. There is […]

Blogging During A Recession

January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Features, How I Blog, Opinion | 5 Comments

There’s no question that an economic slowdown in 2008 is a real possibility (otherwise, why would the Fed have cut rates for the second time in under two weeks?) Anyhow, even if you’re personally unaffected by a foreclosure a layoff, it doesn’t hurt to put the rose-colored glasses aside and just ponder how a recession […]

Feel Like You Have a Tough Mountain to Climb?

January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials | 7 Comments

One of the toughest parts of helping people blog for me is when people come to me feeling despondent with their under performing blogs. I know in many cases they bring them to me as a last ditch attempt. Next step would be for them to call it a day.
Of course I try to help […]

Google launches Arabic version of Blogger

January 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Software, World Blogging | 3 Comments

Google’s Blogger service, familiar to a myriad of bloggers around the world, has just launched support for the Arabic language.
“We’re really excited to be launching Blogger in Arabic,” said Siobhan Quinn, Product Manager at Google. “Blogger’s always been about allowing people to communicate, connect with each other, and share ideas in an easily accessible way; […]

The True Consequences of Blogging Anonymously

January 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Bloggers, Blogging, Featured, Features, Security | 5 Comments

I’ve been in “secret talks” with a friend of mine for the past few months about blogging anonymously. She wants to be a whistle-blower, speaking out about the atrocities and abuse she sees within her industry. But she doesn’t want the consequences of being a “public” whistle-blower.
In other words, she wants to keep her […]

Prologue Theme For WordPress is it a Twitter Killer?

January 29, 2008 | Filed Under News, WordPress | 14 Comments

Matt and team at Automattic have released The Prologue Theme for WordPress, a WordPress theme designed to be a localized version of a simple messaging service like Twitter. Seems to be a lot of talk about it over on TechMeme. I’m thinking this could be very useful for teams and internal communications within companies where […]

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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

MyBlogLog Adds More Stuff
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we’re not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks.
Specifically, whenever you:

post a question to Yahoo Answers
share an item on Google Reader
post a video on Seesmic

MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page.
All you […]

SOBCon08: A Conference Experienced in the Moments
May 8, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago last weekend was a collection of moments I will remember for a long time.
Throughout the weekend, people kept asking what was different about this conference from all the other conferences they go to. It was clear […]

Blogger To Add Star Rating System To BlogSpot?
May 8, 2008 | By Darnell Clayton | Leave a Comment

It looks as Blog*spot users will soon be able to insert a ratings system in their Blogger blogs which will allow readers to rate an individual post from one star to five.
Unfortunately it seems as if they launched the feature prematurely, and the Google team has currently disabled the feature–at least for now.
(Blogger Status) Some […]

Perez Hilton to Release Clothing Line
May 8, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, is set to launch his own line of clothing, to be sold exclusively in the Hot Topic chain of stores, as well as online.
“2008 is all about expanding the Perez Brand,” the blogger explained. “I talk about clothes all the time on my website. I have a […]

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