WordPress.com Enables Support for Google Gears

July 3, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog Software, WordPress | 5 Comments

WordPress.com have added a Turbo button in the admin area. This is to enable Google Gears, if your browser supports it, and speed up things using it. For instance, Google Gears is used for offline access to web apps like Google Docs, but how can it benefit WordPress.com?
On WordPress.com it is used to store all [...]

Legal Issues with Choosing a Host

June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog Software, Features, Legal | Leave a Comment

Finding a new host is never easy.
First, one has to choose the kind of hosting and the plan that they need, something that is almost impossible with a new site. Second, they have to find a quality host at a reasonable price, which is also difficult because nearly all hosts have at least some negative [...]

Recovering From Disaster

June 16, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog Software, Features | 2 Comments

Thursday June 12, 2008 is a night that will live in infamy around my house. It was when I discovered that my main site, Plagiarism Today, was down due to a storage failure at my host.
As dusk turned into dawn, the situation grew more and more bleak. With the storage failure becoming increasingly serious and [...]

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service

April 17, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Features, WordPress | 4 Comments

Baywords is a new blog host running WordPress MU, offering free blogs completely, and promising not to extract any censorship as long as you abide the Swedish law. Behind the initiative stands The Pirate Bay, and Peter “brokep” Sunde had this to say in the launch post:
Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts [...]

WordPress 2.5 Redesigned Admin Hits WordPress.com

April 7, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, WordPress | 5 Comments

Matt announced that the redesigned WordPress 2.5 admin interface have been rolled out on WordPress.com. If you’ve got a blog there, just login and you’ll see it in all its glory.

Is there a deliberate effort to hack a large number of blogs for SEO and cash?

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Consulting, Blog Hosting, Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog News, Blog Software, Features | 1 Comment

Tony Hung, former editor here at The Blog Herald, believes that there is. He writes:
Some enterprising hackers have put together a scheme whereby they hack a number of blogs, so that they can create their own network pages and links back to a few select blogs, to pages that are not easily visible. [...]

Cleaning Blogspot Spam: Is Google Responding to Public Pressure?

April 1, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Hosting, Blog News, Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, News, Social Media, Spam, Splogs, autoblogging software, copyright | 17 Comments

In Google! Clean Up Blogger! Now!, I wrote about how a simple search for a news story turned into a massive multi-page hunt through Google search results of Blogger Blogspot spam blogs, finally finding a possible legitimate blog answer on something like page five but having to go through even more pages to find a [...]

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UK companies aren’t clear on new “fake blogging” laws
July 4, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | Leave a Comment

British companies which pretend to blog as ordinary members of the public, or post multiple positive reviews as if from consumers, are now breaking UK law, yet many don’t know anything about the new legislation, according to Brands2Life.
Its director, Gareth Thomas, said that, “Most people don’t know about this law,” adding, “there is a misconception [...]

Berocca sends out Blogger Relief Packs
July 4, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | 2 Comments

The concept may not be that new, but a couple of weeks ago a colleague introduced me to Berocca’s Blogger Relief Pack. I signed up with one of my blogs, and yesterday received the pack.

While it’s not the complete answer to managing the stress of blogging, a tube of Berocca and a nice glass to [...]

ScribeFire 2.2.8 Released
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

ScribeFire is a popular desktop blogging application hosted in a Firefox extension. Version 2.2.8 includes fixes and some brush-ups. The extension is free to download from Mozilla Add-ons, and works with both Firefox 2 and 3.

Two New b5media Blogs Launched
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Another two b5media blogs launched recently. Marye Audet edits Simply Home Remedies, which is about just that. This from the launch post:
For the past 20 years or so my family has lived without the assistance of commercial medicines or doctors, except for things like broken arms and emergency surgeries on retro-pharyngeal abscesses. You know, the [...]

Hitting the Frontpage of Digg
July 3, 2008 | By Matt Craven | 1 Comment

Skelliewag takes a look at playing the odds and trying to “win” with Digg - a great article with some fantastic tips on how to promote your site using Digg.
Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike [...]

Firefox 3 Plugin Roundup
July 3, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

Now that Firefox 3 has been out for more than a week - and has set a new Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a single day - several websites have begun recapping the plugin/addon situation for Firefox.
BSPCN outlines the 30 “Must Have” Firefox Extensions, including del.icio.us toolbar, Foxmarks, and Greasemonkey.
PC World looks [...]

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