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WordPress.com Marketplace and The Theme Debate

November 5, 2007 – 11:05 am

Last week, Matt Mullenweg made public his idea on creating a WordPress.com Marketplace to add more options to WordPress.com bloggers for a fee, especially meeting the demands of so many for more, more, and more. Among the proposals under consideration, and I stress that, since this is not a done deal but an idea, is […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPressDotCom | Comments (32)

The Debate Over Comments and Trackbacks

January 10, 2007 – 2:18 am

Which came first? The comment or the trackback? Or should I be more clear in my question? Which should come first? The comments or the trackbacks? I have long been a fan of separating trackbacks from comments. Comments are the dialog and trackbacks are the outside discussions, incoming links from sites discussing the topic on […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

The Debate Over Trackbacks from Private Blogs

August 17, 2006 – 1:48 am

WordPress.com blogs are now able to be set to “private”, restricting access and viewing to only those with passwords. I think private blogs are fabulous, allowing those who don’t want anyone to read what they write the ability to blog in privacy, and specific groups of people to blog for each other and themselves, free […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Wise, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Comments (8)

Digg: The Wisdom of the Crowd Debated

June 29, 2006 – 12:25 am

Recently, a WordPress.com blog, Evoling Trends, was smacked with a ton of traffic from Digg and elsewhere. The resulting hulabalu is discussed in Diggs Biggest Flaw Discovered, and while there are a few exagerations, it speaks well of the “wisdom of crowds” mentality that often concerns me with “Web 2.0″ thinking. The bigger problem, however, […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Wise | Comments (10)

The Debate Against Anonymous Bloggers

January 27, 2006 – 7:49 am

From The Aardvark Speaks’ archives, “Why I’m against anonymous blogs” is a well written justification of why you shouldn’t blog anonymously. My experience from UseNet was that people who didn’t post with their real names either thought they were cool, or they just wanted to provoke the regular group members and start flame wars. It’s […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Babble | Comments (12)

Blog Exercises: Do You Teach or Lecture?

May 2, 2013 – 4:14 am

Do you teach or lecture on your site? We all write with a specific “voice” and “style,” representing our perspective on the information we are presenting. On this site, I’m a teacher, sharing with you lessons to help you blog, use WordPress, and publishing on the web. You may share your expertise or your experiences […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog identity, blog voice, blogging style, Blogging Tips, blogging voice, how to blog, how to write, how you write, interactivity, lecture, lecturer, style, teach, teacher, voice, web writing, Writing, writing for the web, writing style, writing voice | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Site Policies and Bloggers Code of Ethics

April 18, 2013 – 4:36 am

It’s time to start working on all of your site policies, one by one. So far, we’ve touched on some of these in Blog Exercises: The Don’ts of Blogging, Blog Exercise: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About, Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies, and Blog Exercises: Quoting and Blockquotes. The basic policies […]

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Blog Exercises: When Will You Not Link?

April 3, 2013 – 4:23 am

There are few people I hate in this world. I think I can count them on one hand, mostly on two fingers. We all have them, people who did us wrong and taught us to disrespect, dread, dislike, and even hate them. As tolerant as we wish we all were, that’s just the way of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, editorial guidelines, ethics, guidelines, how to link, links, moral value, morals, personal standards, policies, social web, standards, tips, when to link, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (17)

Fight Against Trackback Death

March 27, 2013 – 12:25 pm

I’ve heard the many threats of trackbacks and pingbacks dying over the years, going the way of the virtual dinosaur, but I’m terrified to hear from Andraz Tori that Typepad is killing pingback functionality and stating that WordPress might be considering it, removing the joy of getting a notification that someone online is talking about […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress News | Tags: backlinks, comments, death of trackbacks, interaction, pingbacks, protect trackbacks, spam, spam comments, stop trackbacks, trackback spam, trackbacks, typepad, wordpress, WordPress Tips | Comments (21)

Blog Exercises: Sex Changes and Age Matters

March 27, 2013 – 4:19 am

I often get comments that say “Thank you, sir” or emails through my contact forms addressed to Mr. Lorelle. In France, “Lorelle” is a last name as popular as Johnson in English countries. I understand that “Lorelle” is a tough name to identify with a sex. Not the point. I live online in a world […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: age, age identity, blog exercises, sex, sexual identify, sexuality | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (11)

WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil

March 11, 2013 – 1:29 pm

As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]

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Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies

February 6, 2013 – 4:12 am

No matter what we do or say, there will always be bullies and mean people. Some are mean intentionally, some can hurt unintentionally. And then there are those moments when we read the black letters on the white screen too much in-between the lines and come away feeling sick to your stomach. Welcome to the […]

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A Day of Healing and Suffering at the Clackamas Mall

December 18, 2012 – 10:44 pm

“I feel greedy.” We stood in the cold outside the Clackamas Mall, arms wrapped around each other, watching the crowd expand to release individuals and couples to step forward and place their candles on the memorial stage. The faces of the two deceased smiled over the mournful group gathered before them. The photographs were snapshots […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging | Tags: blog writing, clackamas, clackamas mall, event, grief, grieving, guns, heal, healing, memorial, newtown, reporting, sharing, shooting, violence, Writing | Comments (5)

Banned, Blocked, and Censored Bloggers

October 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm

According to the American Library Association, September 30 through October 6, 2012, is a salute to Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together […]